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Unknown Fever May Be Spreading Across Sudan

October 29, 2012March 23, 2022 Katharina Schwan

Radio Dabanga, a news source from central Darfur, reports that a new, unknown fever has killed 37 individuals over the past three weeks in western

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Chinese Strawberries in October: The True Cost of Food Imports

October 19, 2012March 23, 2022 Katharina Schwan

The source of Germany’s largest foodborne outbreak in history, which resulted in at least 11,200 sick school children, has been identified as frozen, imported strawberries

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Spotlight on Powassan Encephalitis: Another Tick Illness to Make Your Skin Crawl

October 16, 2012March 23, 2022 Katharina Schwan

This past summer, The Disease Daily reported on emerging and re-emerging tick-borne illnesses in the United States. Cases of Lyme disease have more than doubled

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Spotlight on Japanese Encephalitis: A Neglected Public Health Problem

October 11, 2012March 23, 2022 Katharina Schwan

Between June and September, monsoon rains sweep across India, washing away the arid soil of the summer and irrigating the enormous rice fields that stretch

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U.S. Meningitis Outbreak Kills 5, More Cases Expected

October 5, 2012March 23, 2022 Katharina Schwan

A rapidly evolving outbreak of rare fungal meningitis has killed five and sickened thirty across six U.S. states. The case count is only expected to

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Gene Sleuths Identify Novel Hemorrhagic Fever Virus

October 3, 2012March 23, 2022 Katharina Schwan

In 2009, a fifteen-year-old boy walked into a rural health clinic in western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) displaying symptoms of acute hemorrhagic fever,

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Over 8,000 German School Children Sick, Norovirus Implicated

October 2, 2012March 23, 2022 Katharina Schwan

A wave of gastroenteritis of unknown origin spread across eastern Germany late last week and into the weekend. Now that the number of new cases

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Koalas Afflicted by 120-Year-Old Retrovirus

September 27, 2012March 23, 2022 Katharina Schwan

A recent study published online in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution discovered that a common retrovirus, KoRV, found in koalas has been plaguing the

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More Climate Change Woes: Avian Malaria Now Found in the Arctic

September 26, 2012March 23, 2022 Katharina Schwan

For the first time, scientists were able to confirm that Plasmodium, the parasite that causes malaria, exists and is transmissible in the frigid temperatures of

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Ethnic Disparities in Flu Vaccine Coverage

September 13, 2012March 23, 2022 Katharina Schwan

Vaccine uptake has been a front-page issue over the past year, given the epidemic levels of whooping cough in some U.S. states and the upsurge

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