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The latest OCHA report is out, confirming the rapid mobilization to fight the cholera outbreak in Haiti is -- so far -- working. There are still many people ill with cholera, but the number of new cases reported is slowing.
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China's Beichuan town has been sealed off to prevent any possible epidemics from happening. The town lost half of its 12,000 residents during the May 12 earthquake that killed 69,186 and left 18,457 people missing.
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If an outbreak of smallpox happened would health departments answer the phone? When researchers posing as doctors called public health departments few health departments followed up on the calls. Could the United States be in danger because of that?
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“Panic” wouldn’t be a very fair description. Australia’s massive, rich, money manufacturing racing industry is trying to keep a brave face on things, but it’s in serious crisis. Equine influenza has been closing down race meetings for weeks.
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Epidemics Headlines
 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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Unknown/National Library of Medicine photographic archive
A representation of the cholera epidemic of the nineteenth century. Before 1830 cholera was unknown in the western hemisphere. It became one of the most feared epidemic diseases of the nineteenth century.
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Epidemics Blogs
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are considering a proposal which would mean that certain prescription only...
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The federal budget proposed by President Obama for 2013 sees a number of cuts to the Prevention and Public Health Fund,...
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A review in Clinical Infectious Diseases has indicated that shortages of key drugs used to fight infections represents...
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It seems appropriate — the official announcement that world population has reached 7 billion comes one day before...
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Barry Chamish is convinced that Shimon Peres, Israel's wily old statesman, ordered the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin,...
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