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Measles are one of the first diseases that occur when immunization coverage rates begin to fall, which leads to large-scale outbreaks. Fortunately, even though measles is a highly contagious viral disease, it is vaccine-preventable.
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Testing plans are now in the making for the delivery of 200,000 doses of cholera vaccine for approximately 100,000 people --not enough to stop the cholera, but enough to show the world the vaccine works.
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Taking a page from its Flu Trends offering, Google has begun using search terminology to monitor outbreaks of Dengue fever, a particularly nasty mosquito-born virus that impacts populated tropical areas worldwide.
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The H1N1 swine flu virus - responsible for 36 of the 39 flu deaths across the UK - is spreading more rapidly in Britain than elsewhere in Europe.
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Haiti is in urgent need of supplies, nurses and doctors to slow the rapidly increasing death toll from a raging cholera epidemic that international aid operations are struggling to control, the United Nations' top humanitarian official said.
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Samaritan's Purse Canada is sending an appeal for help in combating the cholera outbreak in Haiti. Almost 600 people have died and more than 9,000 have been hospitalized.
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Health officials have dreaded the spread of cholera to Haiti's capital, where up to a million people still live in tent cities which lack proper sanitation, and where many people cannot access clean and safe drinking water.
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While Al Jazeera reported that the cholera outbreak appeared to be moving closer to Port-au-Prince and Haiti had not established health check points to help prevent the spread of the disease, the world is rushing in with renewed aid for Haiti.
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Think diabetes won't affect you? Think again. The likelihood of someone getting diabetes is growing fast. It is poised to bankrupt the health care system, according to a "wake-up call" on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Here are facts everyone needs to know.
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As the black lung flu strain continues to intensify in Ukraine, the death toll has reached more than a thousand and four million people have contracted the flu.
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 The rising number of young children needing major dental surgery has some pediatric dentists in Calgary calling it an epidemic.
Some four hundred children have been killed and many more are at risk after the world's worst lead poisoning epidemic in northern Nigeria.
Police blame crime spree on prescription drug abuse epidemic.
Epidemic refuites the claim that Mac faces no cyber threats.
Epidemic hits children in Washington state.
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A new report just released finds diabetes in Texas has reached an epidemic level, due to changing demographics, increased consumption of fast foods and decreased physical exercise.
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ABOUT J. THOMAS SHAW J. Thomas Shaw was born in Quincy, Illinois, and attended the University of Oklahoma and...
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