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Clusters Across the Globe Show Severe Prevalence Rates of HTLV-1

May 24, 2018 Jackie Sheridan

  Worldwide attention has recently been brought to the disease called Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1, or HTLV-1. News outlets have been reporting that

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Clusters Across the Globe Show Severe Prevalence Rates of HTLV-1

May 24, 2018 Jackie Sheridan

  Worldwide attention has recently been brought to the disease called Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1, or HTLV-1. News outlets have been reporting that

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Source Identified for the Deadliest Listeria Outbreak in History

April 10, 2018 Jackie Sheridan

  South Africa has experienced 978 lab-confirmed cases of listeria poisoning since January 2017 [1], in what the United Nations has declared the largest listeria

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Source Identified for the Deadliest Listeria Outbreak in History

April 10, 2018 Jackie Sheridan

  South Africa has experienced 978 lab-confirmed cases of listeria poisoning since January 2017 [1], in what the United Nations has declared the largest listeria

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Vancouver Island Puzzled by Rare Cholera Outbreak

April 2, 2018 Jackie Sheridan

  Four human cases of cholera have been identified on Vancouver Island, an island on the western coast of British Columbia, Canada[1]. The outbreak was

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Madrid Reports Locally Transmitted Malaria Case in Infant

March 14, 2018 Jackie Sheridan

  A case of malaria in a three-month old infant was confirmed on Wednesday, February 24th, 2018. The infant was originally admitted to the hospital

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Multiple Outbreaks Threaten the 2018 Winter Olympics

February 14, 2018 Jackie Sheridan

  The 2018 Winter Olympics began on Thursday, February 8th in PyeongChang, South Korea. The games bring 206 countries to participate [1], comprising of nearly

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Diphtheria Outbreak Among Rohingya Refugees Enters Third Month

January 25, 2018 Jackie Sheridan

  Escalating violence in Myanmar has caused over 800,000 Rohingya to come to Bangladesh as refugees since August 2017, the majority of which are residing

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Unexpected Hepatitis A Outbreaks Spread Throughout the U.S.

December 15, 2017 Jackie Sheridan

  In 2017, several states have experienced acute outbreaks of Hepatitis A, namely Michigan, Kentucky, Utah, Colorado, and California. Each state varies in regards to

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Yemen Faces Worst Cholera Outbreak in Recent History

July 27, 2017 Jackie Sheridan

  A cholera outbreak rages on in Yemen, a war afflicted nation of almost 30 million people on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula.

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