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Pakistan: Brain-eating Amoeba & Vaccination Against Childhood Pneumonia

October 12, 2012January 25, 2023 Adham Abdel Mottalib

A rare and fatal brain-eating infection killed 10 people in Karachi, Pakistan this year. This waterborne species of amoeba causes primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a

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World Pneumonia Day

November 10, 2011January 25, 2023 Jane Huston

The third annual World Pneumonia Day will be observed on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011. World Pneumonia Day aims to raise awareness around the leading killer

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