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Ongoing Yellow Fever Outbreak in Kenya

March 25, 2022September 17, 2024 Makayla Swaciak

Image credit: Vaccines at Sanofi. CC-BY-NC-ND. On March 4, 2022, Kenyan health authorities declared an outbreak of Yellow Fever in Isiolo County in central Kenya

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Wild Poliovirus in Africa Discovered: First Case in 5 Years

March 15, 2022September 17, 2024 Caroline Pane

Image Credit: United Nations Photo. CC-BY-NC-ND. A 3-year-old in Malawi has the first case of wild-type poliovirus in Africa in 5 years, and the first

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SARS-CoV-2 infections in white-tailed deer: what does it mean?

February 16, 2022September 17, 2024 Makayla Swaciak

Image credit: Photo by Tom Murray. CC-BY-NC. Researchers at Penn State recently found evidence that the SARS-coV-2 B.1.1.529 Omicron variant spread from humans to white-tailed

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The COVID-19 Delta variant: What is it and why should we worry?

June 24, 2021January 25, 2023 Alexandra Thomsen

In December 2020, the B.1.617.2 variant, also known as the COVID-19 Delta variant, was first documented in India (1). Originally referred to as the “India

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The New Avian Influenza: A Case of Zoonosis

June 4, 2021January 31, 2022 user

H10N3 in China On Tuesday, June 1, 2021, Beijing’s National Health Commission announced a confirmed case of the H10N3 avian influenza in a 41-year-old man.

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AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 Vaccine Efficacy and Safety

March 22, 2021January 25, 2023 Marinanicole Schultheiss

Image courtesy of Alachua County via Public Domain One year after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a pandemic [1],

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New Ebola Outbreak and COVID-19 in West Africa

March 21, 2021September 17, 2024 Sarah Wade

Image courtesy of CDC Global Health, licensed under CC BY 2.0 On top of the COVID-19 pandemic, West Africa is experiencing another, newly declared deadly

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IDHA Launches New Respiratory Health Study on Google Health Studies App

March 8, 2021 Marinanicole Schultheiss

In December 2020, the Innovation & Digital Health Accelerator department at Boston Children’s Hospital launched a new health study in collaboration with Google. The Respiratory

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COVID-19 and the Rise of Alcohol Use Among College Students

February 24, 2021September 17, 2024 Sarah Wade

Image courtesy of Anthony Marsiglia via Flickr The COVID-19 pandemic forced many universities to reassess their way of teaching students this past fall. The new

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The Epidemic within the Pandemic

January 27, 2021September 17, 2024 Alexandra Rodrigues

Image courtesy of Quote Catalog via Flickr While life before COVID-19 may serve as many people’s standard of normalcy, for millions of Americans struggling with

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