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France has upgraded its level of bird flu risk to ‘high’ from ‘moderate’ to ensure better protection and ordered poultry farms to close or enclose the birds with nets in farmyards and zoos.
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France on ‘high’ alert for bird flu, imposes poultry curbs on farms

HQ Team December 6, 2023: France has upgraded its level of bird flu risk to ‘high’ from ‘moderate’ to ensure better protection and.

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Food poisoning is a type of food-borne illness as a result of eating contaminated food. This can be caused mainly by bacteriae like Salmonella, Shigella, E. Coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium botulinum.
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Opinion: Food poisoning, deaths took shawarma out of my food menu

By Dr. K. Leelamoni November 21, 2023: Shawarma was a favourite dish of mine and I first came to know about it when.

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More than 3,700 babies in the US were born with syphilis in 2022 — ten times the number in 2012 — and people from racial and ethnic minorities bore the brunt of the epidemic eight times more than White mothers.
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Newborn syphilis cases rise ten-fold in 2022 in a decade in US: CDC data

More than 3,700 babies in the US were born with syphilis in 2022 — ten times the number in 2012 — and people.

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Shingles can strike anywhere on your body and it most often appears as a single stripe of blisters that wraps around either the left or the right side of the human torso. At times the pain is excruciating. 
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Opinion: ‘I want to press the area with a hot iron box’: Shingles patient

By Dr K. Leelamoni October 31, 2023: During an annual family temple festival, celebrated at my ancestral home in the southern Indian state.

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The USFDA has approved Pfizer Inc.’s vaccine to treat deadly meningococcal disease in young adults between 10 years and 25 years.
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Pfizer’s vaccine for meningococcal disease gets FDA approval

HQ Team October 21, 2023: The USFDA has approved Pfizer Inc.’s vaccine to treat deadly meningococcal disease in young adults between 10 years.

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An advisory panel of the national public agency of the US, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has provisionally recommended Pfizer’s vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus in pregnant women to protect infants during the infection season.
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CDC panel backs Pfizer’s respiratory virus vaccine to protect infants 

HQ Team September 23, 2023: An advisory panel of the national public agency of the US, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has.

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The US national public agency has recommended a COVID-19 vaccination policy where updated shots are given starting from six-month-old infants — in variance with the policies of European counterparts.
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CDC, ECDC differ on vaccination program for fall-winter season

HQ Team September 13, 2023: The US national public agency has recommended a COVID-19 vaccination policy where updated shots are given starting from.

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The jury is still out on which virus causes chronic fatigue syndrome, its diagnosis, the treatment options, and even its very terminology. Molecular biologists at the Cornell University revisited the syndrome, which is also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and found it may be triggered by viral infections.
Drugs Health Pharma

Jury still out on chronic fatigue syndrome’s causes, treatment

HQ Team September 3, 2023: The jury is still out on which virus causes chronic fatigue syndrome, its diagnosis, the treatment options, and.

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The US national health agency and the WHO are tracking a new COVID-19 virus, BA.2.86, detected in the US, Denmark, and Israel.
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WHO, US national health agency tracking new COVID-19 variant

HQ Team August 18, 2023: The US national health agency and the WHO are tracking a new COVID-19 virus, BA.2.86, detected in the.

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Three people have died and 1,020 newly confirmed cases of mpox were reported globally to the WHO during the last 21 days, according to a statement.
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Mpox virus continues to spread, driven by China’s community transmission 

HQ Team August 15, 2023: Three people have died and 1,020 newly confirmed cases of mpox were reported globally to the WHO during.

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