El Niño, La Niña, and infectious disease: Understanding how ENSO cycles impact immunity and outbreak patterns
Variations in temperature, precipitation, and humidity can influence the spread of infectious diseases, including by altering ...
‘Unknown disease’ that can kill within days leaves 53 dead in Congo
World Health Organization officials said the outbreak appeared to originate from a village where three children died after ...
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Bray Studios Documentary: Public Health & Sanitation - Disease Prevention through Water Supply
and quarantine to prevent disease outbreaks. The film features New York City’s upstate reservoirs, an animated diagram illustrating proper sanitation practices, and a 1922 quarantine sign for ...
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Mysterious Disease Is Killing Dozens in Congo, Including Children — and Some Die Within 48 Hours
The latest outbreak began on Jan. 21, with 419 people reportedly infected and 53 dead. “This marks the second cluster of cases and deaths from an unknown disease in the province in less than a ...
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CDC eyes vaccines, autism study amid measles outbreak, report says. What to know
Instead, officials and experts have stressed the importance of vaccines, which are safe and highly effective, to stop the spread of the highly contagious disease. The outbreak has spread in under ...
Texas Measles Map Shows Hardest Hit Counties as Outbreak Grows
The U.S. declared measles eliminated in 2000 "thanks to a very high percentage of people receiving the safe and effective ...
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Outbreak of 'unexplained bleeding' virus with 50 per cent kill rate confirmed
The 32-year-old male nurse worked at the Mulago National Referral Hospital, in Uganda, and became infected by the the disease after an Ebola outbreak in the country on January 29. Michael Head ...