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Month: September 2018

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Candida auris: A Fungal Superbug

September 20, 2018 Natalia Ciesielska

  Introduction: In 2009, a 70-year-old woman in Tokyo, Japan was hospitalized with an ear infection that did not seem to improve with antibiotics [4].

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EpiCore RFIs: Mysterious Illness Found to be Influenza in Nepal

September 17, 2018 Katherine Churchwell

  On 11 September 2018, HealthMap noted a news- media report of a mystery disease in Kanchanrup Municipality of Saptari in Nepal. The original report

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EpiCore RFIs: Mysterious Illness Found to be Influenza in Nepal

September 17, 2018 Katherine Churchwell

  On 11 September 2018, HealthMap noted a news- media report of a mystery disease in Kanchanrup Municipality of Saptari in Nepal. The original report

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EpiCore RFIs: Influenza on Emirates Flight 203

September 14, 2018 Emily Cohn

  On 5 September 2018, HealthMap noted multiple news-media reports and twitter posts of sick passengers on an Emirates flight, which had landed at John

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An Update on the Current Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

September 13, 2018 Lauren Goodwin

  Since the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak that claimed more than 11,000 lives, the mere mention of Ebola hemorrhagic fever is enough to send

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MERS Cases Reported in the United Kingdom, South Korea

September 13, 2018 Lauren Goodwin

  On September 3, 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported a single confirmed case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS Co-V or MERS)

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Shedding Light on NTDs: Buruli Ulcer

September 12, 2018 Lauren Goodwin

    This week’s NTD is a condition that is produced by a bacterium belonging to the same family of microbes that cause leprosy and

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Shedding Light on NTDs: Foodborne Trematode Infections

September 5, 2018 Lauren Goodwin

  Summer is the time of year when public health messaging reminds us of foodborne infections from bacteria like Salmonella, E.coli and Listeria. While these

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