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Drug resistance continued: Malaria

September 22, 2011March 23, 2022 Anna Tomasulo

Early this morning, the New England Journal of Medicine released a piece warning of potential artemisinin-resistant malaria near the Cambodia-Thailand border.  Artemisinin is a drug

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Drug resistance and tuberculosis

September 21, 2011March 23, 2022 Anna Tomasulo

  In a recent press release, Stop TB reports that 15 of the 27 countries with the highest burden of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis are located

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Listeriosis: 4 deaths, 35 cases across the US

September 20, 2011March 23, 2022 Jane Huston

  An outbreak of listeriosis has spread from a few cases in Colorado in August to 35 cases across 10 states with four confirmed deaths,

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Monsoons and Bacteria Plaguing Gujarat, India

September 19, 2011March 23, 2022 Anna Tomasulo

  Monsoon season in India is bringing more than just heavy rains. India’s western state, Gujarat, reports a record high of 688 cases of leptospirosis

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Dengue Plagues Pakistan’s Most Populous Province

September 16, 2011March 23, 2022 Glory Song

More than 5,000 dengue cases and 17 deaths have been reported in Pakistan, with 4,400 of those cases and 12 of the deaths occurring in

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In Defense of Vaccines

September 15, 2011March 23, 2022 Anna Tomasulo

Monday night’s Tea Party debate inspired a myriad of articles, blog posts and tweets, largely from the health community, in response to Minn. Rep. Michele

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Babesiosis in the U.S. Blood Supply

September 14, 2011March 23, 2022 Jane Huston

On 5 Sept. the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) revealed recently completed research indicating the parasitic infection babesiosis as a growing threat to the blood

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HealthMap hosts a successful screening of “Contagion”

September 14, 2011March 23, 2022 Anna Tomasulo

On Friday, Sept. 9, the HealthMap team hosted a screening of "Contagion", the new hit movie from Warner Bros. Pictures, Participant Media, and Imagenation Abu

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PLoS blog features HealthMap team’s article on “Failed vaccination campaigns” as global issue

September 12, 2011March 23, 2022 Anna Tomasulo

In July 2011 The Guardian (UK) explored the Central Intelligence Agency’s fake vaccine campaign, which rolled out in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in an attempt to acquire

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Imported Poliovirus Leaves 1 Dead in Xinjiang, China

September 9, 2011March 23, 2022 Glory Song

  On August 31st, we reported that four children were diagnosed with polio in Xinjiang, China, a country that had been polio-free for eleven years.

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