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How did over 800 students test HIV positive in Tripura?
Tripura is presently facing a surging HIV epidemic ripping through its student population. Fueled b…
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WHO has declared mpox a global health emergency. What happens next?
The spread of mpox through certain African countries led the Africa Centres for Disease Control and…
PTI
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Future zoonotic disease pandemics set to turn deadlier, kill 12 times as many people by 2050 due to climate change
The team found that from 1963 to 2019, 3,150 outbreaks had claimed a staggering 17,232 lives in 24 …
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2 reasons China's mysterious respiratory illness outbreak isn't the new COVID, according to the WHO
Parts of China have seen a surge in respiratory illnesses in children. But health officials said co…
Kim Schewitz
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What is the meaning of pandemic and how is it different from an epidemic or an outbreak
On March 11, World Health Organisation said that the novel coronavirus has spread across more tha…
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How American discrimination has hindered the way we've handled disease outbreaks
Discrimination in the US has led to federal inaction and mishandling of past epidemic diseases, inc…
Natalie Colarossi
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What is the Marburg virus? WHO confirms outbreak of the deadly viral disease in Equatorial Guinea and Tanzania
The CDC on Thursday issued a health advisory warning to doctors in the US, prompting them to watch …
Erin Snodgrass
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World Health Network declares monkeypox outbreak a pandemic
The current monkeypox outbreak, which has infected 3,417 people across 42 countries, has on Thursda…
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An epidemics historian has called China's response to the coronavirus outbreak 'clumsy' - and says it 'terrifies' him for the future
"I don't quite go along with the response of the WHO, which praised this as wonderful public health…
Ashley Collman
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India is dealing with its largest ever outbreak of the Zika virus
In late 2014, the Ebola virus, which plagued West Africa for the better part of the year’s sec…
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The next wave of coronavirus outbreaks is threatening cities from New Orleans to Philadelphia, and it reveals the US is on pace for a national epidemic
Researchers at the University of Chicago found clusters in states including Arkansas, Mississippi, …
Yeji Jesse Lee
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Lok Sabha passes bill that punishes those who attack health workers or doctors
A bill which proposed protection to frontline workers, including healthcare professionals, was pass…
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Kim Jong Un's sister said he was 'seriously unwell' during the COVID outbreak that ravaged North Korea
Kim Yo Jong said Kim Jong Un was very unwell with a "high fever." North Korea often refers to COVID…
Sinéad Baker
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Kim Jong Un admits North Korea's COVID-19 outbreak is a 'great disaster'
Kim Jong Un said that North Korea's COVID-19 outbreak is the country's greatest "turmoil" since its…
Alia Shoaib
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A health-security expert says we're in an 'age of epidemics.' We can expect a future outbreak worse than the Wuhan coronavirus.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), which spread in China 17 years ago, was also a coronaviru…
Aylin Woodward,Aria Bendix,Ar…
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5 ways to determine if you've gotten accurate coronavirus information, according to an epidemiologist
We in public health always have to fight parallel wars during an outbreak: the contagion itself, an…
Syra Madad
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Lok Sabha passes two Health Ministry Bills in midnight proceedings
The Lok Sabha in a midnight proceeding on Tuesday passed Homoeopathy Central Council (Amendment) Bi…
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A new cholera outbreak is killing hundreds in Haiti. Scientists think it's the same strain that was brought to the country by UN troops more than a decade ago.
The current strain of cholera fueling an outbreak in Haiti is likely related to the strain that cau…
Sarah Braner
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WHO is unable to see an end to the Coronavirus epidemic
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that it is "way too early" to predict the end of the c…