No other infectious disease has killed more people than tuberculosis. Currently, only one vaccine is available to prevent severe courses: Bacillus Calmette Guérin (BCG). However, it is not equally effective against all types ...
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Northwestern Medicine scientists Ramon Lorenzo-Redondo, Ph.D., and Egon Ozer, MD, Ph.D., recently flew into the airport in Iquitos, a remote Peruvian city in the depths of the Amazon jungle accessible only by plane or river ...
Jul 29, 2022
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The omicron subvariant known as BA.5 was first detected in South Africa in February 2022 and spread rapidly throughout the world. As of the second week of July 2022, BA.5 constituted nearly 80% of COVID-19 variants in the ...
Jul 27, 2022
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The World Health Organization's expert monkeypox committee will meet on Thursday to decide whether to deploy the UN health agency's rarely used top alert for the worsening virus outbreak.
Jul 21, 2022
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You can't do your work because there's no power. You eat late and bolt your food before the lights fail. And then to be at home, in the utter dark, gives you the creeps.
Jul 20, 2022
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Methanol was found in the blood of the 21 teenagers who died last month in a bar in South Africa's city of East London, according to a health official. Methanol—often called wood alcohol—is a toxic chemical and if ingested ...
Jul 19, 2022
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Two cases of the deadly Marburg virus have been identified in Ghana, the first time the Ebola-like disease has been found in the West African nation, health authorities announced Sunday.
Jul 18, 2022
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Many children in South Africa run the risk of developing foot abnormalities such as hammer-, clawed- and retracted toes and heel spurs because they wear school shoes that don't fit properly.
Jul 14, 2022
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Recent findings published in The Lancet Global Health suggest that methods developed in high-income settings to check kidney function are not accurate for many people in Africa.
Jul 13, 2022
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The World Health Organization says Ghana has reported two possible cases of the Ebola-like Marburg virus disease, which if confirmed would mark the first-ever such infections in the West African country.
Jul 8, 2022
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