Plague transmission may have begun a century before the Black Death, study shows
Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before ...
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Embedding risk monitoring in infectious disease surveillance for timely and effective outbreak prevention and control
Epidemic intelligence efforts aim to predict, timely detect and assess (re-)emerging pathogens, guide and evaluate infectious ...
Death of newborn at Glasgow hospital a ‘bolt from the blue’, inquiry hears
Sophia Smith was just 11 days old when she died in an intensive care unit at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow in ...
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Sexually Transmitted and Blood Borne Infections (STBBI) prevention guide
This guide includes an overview of practices for the prevention and management of sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBI) by healthcare professionals practicing in public health or ...
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Scientists Just Discovered The First Known Case Of The Plague In A 5,000-Year-Old Skeleton
"It seems that we are really close to the origin of the bacteria." A Stone Age hunter-gatherer who lived in present-day ...
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America’s Abandonment of the Poor
Dominating the book is an image of institutional space, beige, concrete, and lightless: the warehouse, the hospital, the ...
The USAID Shutdown Puts Millions of African Lives at Risk
HIV research programs have been halted, and many treatment clinics are still closed, despite a waiver for “life-saving” ...
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On This Day in 1900, the Bubonic Plague Hit the Continental United States, Spiraling Into an Epidemic That Killed 119 People
On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...
‘His body is not fighting’: Ohio man dies after contracting West Nile virus
Mike Black Sr. and Joan Black of Plain Township were married for 48 years. Mike Black contracted the West Nile virus in ...
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‘His body is not fighting’: Plain Township man dies after contracting West Nile virus
His family never suspected that his favorite pastime would lead to his death at age 76. Mike died Dec. 26 from complications ...
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Racial gap widened in deaths among U.S. moms around childbirth
Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women around the time of childbirth in 2023, as maternal mortality fell below prepandemic levels overall but racial gaps ...