Reducing social contact is widely understood to slow disease spread, but because there is no personal health benefit gained from self-isolating, this would seem to require some concern for others. But how much do you have ...
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Pakistani authorities on Monday launched the final nationwide anti-polio vaccination campaign of the year, aiming to protect 45 million children after more than two dozen cases of the potentially paralyzing disease were reported, ...
Dec 15, 2025
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Even a small proportion of citizens who do not follow health measures can amplify the spread of an epidemic and make it expand faster in large cities.
Dec 10, 2025
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Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have discovered that some people can carry large amounts of a multidrug-resistant strain of Escherichia coli sequence ...
Oct 30, 2025
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Almost 1 in 2 people using a hospital toilet did not wash their hands afterwards, according to new research from the University of Surrey—raising serious concerns about hygiene compliance in high-risk environments.
Jul 17, 2025
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If you're sharing close quarters with someone during flu season, how would you know they are sick, even in cases where they may not know themselves?
May 20, 2025
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The number of adults aged 65 and older is growing, and older adults are at higher risk for social isolation and loneliness due to changes in health and social connections that can come with growing older, according to the ...
May 9, 2025
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The South African government declared a national disaster towards the end of 2024 in response to an outbreak of food-borne illnesses. The outbreak had led to the tragic deaths of more than 20 children and the hospitalization ...
Feb 5, 2025
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At the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, governments and health care centers across the country faced a difficult but important question: Should health care workers be required to obtain the COVID-19 vaccine?
Aug 31, 2024
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Declining fertility rates and aging populations in Western nations have recently set off alarm bells, but continued global population growth will actually raise the pressure billions more people place on a destroyed environment, ...
Mar 6, 2024
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