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Number of Suspected Cases of Ebola Rises in Uganda

July 31, 2012March 23, 2022 Anna Tomasulo

Reuters reports that eleven more suspected cases of Ebola are in isolation. There are now 36 suspected or confirmed cases. According to Paul Katwa, head

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Potential Dengue Vaccine Shows Promise in Thailand Trial

July 31, 2012March 23, 2022 Robyn Correll Carlyle

French pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur announced Wednesday that its dengue vaccine candidate showed significant success during a study conducted in Thailand. Roughly 4,000 children between

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Museveni Addresses Uganda’s Ebola Outbreak

July 30, 2012March 23, 2022 Anna Tomasulo

On the evening of July 29, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni issued a statement on the current Ebola outbreak, in which he called on Ugandans to

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New Study Names 40 Airports Most Likely to Spread Disease

July 27, 2012March 23, 2022 Lauren Edmundson

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently published a report that used mathematical modeling to identify the U.S. airports that, in the event of

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Spotlight: Why Cannibalism is Bad for You

July 26, 2012March 23, 2022 Jason Hayes

Spotlight Series: Kuru Although it is not expressly stated in the umbrella values of most dogmas or individual moral compasses, eating people is generally frowned

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Uganda Reports 16 Dead from Mystery Illness

July 26, 2012March 23, 2022 Anna Tomasulo

Update: According to USAToday , Ugandan Officials and WHO representatives report that the illness is Ebola. Sixteen people are reported dead in Uganda from a

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Swine Flu at an Indiana County Fair

July 25, 2012March 23, 2022 Anna Tomasulo

The Indiana State Department of Health is investigating the potential outbreak of variant influenza A virus, or swine flu. Shortly after the LaPorte County Fair,

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United States Faces Twice as Many Pertussis Cases as Last Year

July 25, 2012March 23, 2022 Lauren Edmundson

New statistics show that the United States is in the midst of the worst outbreak of pertussis, or whooping cough, in fifty years.  Case reports

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Healthy Olympics 2012: Disease surveillance and mass gathering medicine

July 24, 2012March 23, 2022 Katharina Schwan

In the blockbuster Contagion, Gwyneth Paltrow travels to Hong Kong on business and returns to suburban Minneapolis with flu-like symptoms. Within days she is dead. Paltrow

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Brain-Eating Amoeba Returns to the South

July 20, 2012March 23, 2022 Katharina Schwan

The by now infamous brain-eating amoeba caused its first U.S. fatality of 2012 in an 8-year-old South Carolina boy. Blake Driggers from Sumter County was

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