A confirmed patient of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) expired here at the Holy Family Hospital on August 29 however, he was confirmed positive for the infection by the National Institute of Health, Islamabad in the afternoon on August 30, on Thursday. The 65-year old male patient, Abdur Razzaq son of Hashim Ali was brought to the HFH from a village in the area of Choa Sayden Shah, District Chakwal on August 27 with signs and symptoms of CCHF while his history of animal handling was positive. Read article
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New Delhi: Encephalitis is back again to haunt the children of eastern Uttar Pradesh as 21 deaths have been reported in the past three days itself from four district hospitals in and around Gorakhpur. The maximum number of deaths are being reported from the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur. So far, 241 encephalitis deaths have […]
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(Reuters) – Some 10,000 people who stayed in tent cabins at Yosemite National Park this summer may be at risk for the deadly rodent-borne hantavirus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday. The CDC urged lab testing of patients who exhibit symptoms consistent with the lung disease, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, after […]
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A third visitor to a downtown hotel earlier this summer has died after contracting Legionnaires’ disease, city officials announced Friday. Media in Ireland are reporting that the man was a retired plumber who was in Chicago to celebrate his 40th wedding anniversary when he apparently contracted the disease. Read article
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Tactical police officers with guns drawn stormed Deniliquin Airport on Tuesday and Thursday. But it wasn’t a hostage situation — Local State Protections Support Unit (SPSU) police were doing tactical training to practice resolving high-risk situations. Read article
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Freetown – Gripped by its worst cholera outbreak in nearly 15 years, which has already left 229 dead, Sierra Leone is likely to see cases triple in the next month as the rainy season hits its peak, estimates show. In Freetown, the densely populated seaside capital, makeshift houses without toilets or running water crowd the […]
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Cabin staff at German airline Lufthansa will begin their strike action on Friday, the workers’ union has said. The UFO union did not say where the strikes would take place, but said it would give six hours’ notice. Read article
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When two Missouri farmers wound up hospitalized with fever, fatigue, low blood cell counts and elevated liver enzymes in 2009, doctors suspected ticks were to blame. Both men recently had reported tick bites, including a 57-year-old whose wife plucked a single critter off his abdomen with tweezers and a 67-year-old man who figured he was […]
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QUEBEC – The death toll from the outbreak of legionnaires’ disease increased by one to a total of nine in Quebec City on Wednesday, as public-health authorities sought additional help in their inspection of buildings that are suspected of harbouring the deadly Legionnella bacteria. Authorities also reported that the number of people infected with the […]
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Following the death of a six-year-old boy after being administered an anti-rabies vaccine (ARV) here on Wednesday, the Haryana health department has alerted all civil hospitals to temporarily discontinue using the vaccine. The incident took place at Karnal Civil Hospital and doctors termed it a case of vaccine reaction Karnal civil surgeon Dr Shiv Kumar […]
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