The BBC reports that a woman has spoken of the moment doctors discovered flesh-eating maggots in her ear after a trip to Peru. Rochelle Harris, from Derby, was on holiday with her boyfriend James earlier this year when she walked through a swarm of flies. During the flight home the 27-year-old developed a severe headache, shooting pain in her face and noticed “scratching noises” in her head. Read article
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Alarabiya.net reports that health authorities in the UAE have announced that an 82-year-old man has been diagnosed with the MERS coronavirus infection, the first case to be recorded in the Gulf state. The Emirati citizen who contracted the SARS-like virus suffers from cancer and is being treated in hospital in the capital, Abu Dhabi health […]
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Thanhniennews.com reports that a Vietnamese journalist was seriously poisoned by water from an old well in the Sahara Desert while on assignment in Algeria, claimed his employer, Nang Luong Moi newspaper . Nguyen Nhu Phong, Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper and its online affiliate, PetroTimes, allegedly washed his face and took a sip of water from […]
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As reported by Focustaiwan.tw, a Taiwanese tourist who suffered several fractured ribs in a traffic accident in Cambodia that killed four and left seven others injured was being treated in a hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, late Wednesday. Read Article
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As reported by Yahoo.com, tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes in Calgary and throughout the rest of southern Alberta over the past 36 hours, as swollen streams and rivers overflowed their banks, some with so little warning that residents had no choice to flee to the roof of their house […]
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Reuters reports that the new Middle East coronavirus that has killed 38 people after emerging late last year is a serious risk in hospitals because it is easily transmitted in healthcare environments, infectious disease experts said on Wednesday. In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers said the Middle East […]
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According to redorbit.com, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted in a January weekly report that norovirus had taken a stronghold in the US, with numbers of cases rising. The virus, which is associated with flu-like symptoms and causes uncontrollable vomiting, has in fact been showing its ugly face in schools, on […]
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Newyork.cbslocal.com reports that bacterial contamination was being blamed Monday for an outbreak of foodborne illness following the popular Burger & Beer Bash in Westchester County earlier this month. The county Health Department said Monday that the campylobacter bacterium was to blame for the outbreak at the June 6 outdoor food festival at the Kenisco Dam […]
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Channelnewsasia.com reports that the haze in Singapore climbed into the unhealthy range on Monday as the three-hour Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) hit 111 at 6pm. The PSI reading first crossed the 100 mark at 3pm, when it was recorded at 105, before reaching a peak of 111 at 4pm and 6pm. According to the National […]
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According to thelocal.fr, French authorities have reversed earlier claims that two men hospitalized in Tours after returning from Saudi Arabia were infected with a deadly virus formerly known as coronavirus, but now labeled MERS, it emerged on Wednesday. France’s Minister for Health Marisol Touraine on Wednesday announced, “the tests have come back negative,” reversing an […]
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