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An Alberta man, 66-year-old Ron Sept died on October 4 due to a mere mosquito bite. Prior to the bite, Sept had survived two heart transplants and lived another 14 years. “It’s so hard to accept that after 14 years staying alive after the heart transplants it was one little mosquito, that’s all, that brought him […]
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Doctors in Mumbai have been warning parents not to mistake the highly contagious and dangerous hand, foot and mouth disease (HMFD) with the relatively-benign common childhood illness of chicken pox, as the two diseases share similar symptoms. Over the last two weeks, pediatricians in Mumbai have reported an increasing number of HMFD cases, most in […]
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Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are scrambling to identify how many of the steroid shots, that has already infected 105 people, are contaminated with these deadly fungus. Almost 13,000 people have received the shots, but it is believed that only the ones who received the injections in their backs are at […]
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Dadaab, a complex in Kenya that more than 470,000 refugees from Somalia call home is dealing with an outbreak of jaundice and hepatitis. While only 223 cases have been confirmed to date, jaundice has a long incubation period and many more cases are expected. There have been four fatalities to date in the compound. The […]
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At UN headquarters on Wednesday, Haiti’s Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe declared that a “regrettable” cholera epidemic that had killed thousands was under control. In his meetings with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the allegations made by locals that the outbreak was due to the pollution of a river by the camp toilets of UN peacekeepers from […]
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