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Polio: What Happens to a Vaccine-Preventable Disease When Vaccination Is Prevented?

July 18, 2014January 25, 2023 user

Polio is a highly infectious disease that mainly affects children under age five and leads to irreversible paralysis in about one of every 200 cases.

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Cholera Infects Almost 1500 in Northeast Afghanistan

August 15, 2013January 25, 2023 Alexandra Thomsen

An outbreak of cholera in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province has infected 1492 people, one of whom has died of the illness, according to the Associated Press

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Study Shows Malaria Is Over-diagnosed in Afghanistan

August 17, 2012January 25, 2023 Robyn Correll Carlyle

It seems logical to think that over diagnosing an illness would not bring too much harm – better safe than sorry, right? Wrong. A study,

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On Antimalarials and Afghanistan Shootings

April 5, 2012January 25, 2023 Anna Tomasulo

  On March 11, American Staff Sgt. Robert Bales allegedly killed 17 Afghan civilians. Amidst the media buzz, reporters, psychiatrists, and even Bales’s lawyer, wonder

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Leishmaniasis in Afghanistan

October 19, 2010January 25, 2023 Lakshmi Yajurvedi

On Friday, WHO officials highlighted an ongoing outbreak of Leishmaniasis in their first global report on neglected diseases. An ongoing outbreak in Herat as well

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