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Author: Sumiko Mekaru
September’s Emerging Infectious Diseases journal reports that two individuals’ tattoos were infected by a bacteria normally seen only in people with poor immune systems. In
Ticks are known for carrying Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Babesia, among other diseases. Now, there’s a new bacteria on the list. Researchers at
UNICEF has detected 20 new polio cases in northern Nigeria. These cases threaten to erase the substantial progress Nigeria has made in eliminating the disease.
On March 11th, 2011 a magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck just off the coast or Japan’s Miyagi prefecture, 231 miles northeast of Tokyo. The largest ever recorded in