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Outbreak of ‘brain-swelling’ Nipah reaches five after victim’s son tests positive for the virus dubbed ‘next pandemic’
THE son of a man who died from a brain-swelling Nipah virus that inspired the Hollywood blockbuster Contagion has allegedly ...
Plague Death in Arizona Shows Insidious Disease Never Disappeared
The word "plague" is often used to refer to any major disease epidemic or pandemic, or even to other undesirable events, such ...
An Arizona resident has just died of the plague. What to know about this disease
Most people don’t need to be concerned about the plague based on a recent death in Arizona. But take precautions if you live ...
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Porous borders fuel crime surge
Fiji’s police face big problems because the borders are easy to cross, says Police Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu. He says police do not have enough resources to stop crimes that happen across borders.
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Canadian hospitals seeing exponential increase in superbug incidence
Researcher say the increase in carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales infection and colonization is being driven by ...
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An Arizona Resident Died From the Plague. Here’s What to Know About the Rare Disease
The patient had the pneumonic plague, the rarest and deadliest form of the disease. Human cases remain very uncommon in the ...
Patient dies from the ‘Black Death’ plague less than 24 hours after symptoms first emerged
A PERSON has died from plague just 24 hours after they showed up at hospital with symptoms, health officials have said. The ...
What Arizona's Pneumonic Plague death means for public health
An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health ...
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Arizona Resident Dies Of Bubonic Plague Only 24 Hours After Showing Symptoms, All About The Rare Case
An Arizona resident died within 24 hours of showing plague symptoms, confirmed to be caused by Yersinia pestis, following a ...
US state rocked by sudden death from medieval disease... as officials warn more to come
An Arizona resident had succumbed to the Black Death, marking the county's first plague death since 2007. Coconino County health officials withheld the person's name and gender, but confirmed their ...
Will we know if the next plague is human-made?
In April of that year, patients started appearing at hospitals in the industrial city of Sverdlovsk, now known as ...