Tag: disease
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U.N. says poised for huge Syria aid effort, if the door opens
By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations is ready for a huge aid effort if the warring Syria parties stop fighting, but even then aid workers will proceed carefully and assess the safety of each delivery, a U.N. spokesman said on Wednesday. “We are now standing by, our warehouses are full of aid…
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Brazil to fund development of vaccine for Zika virus
SAO PAULO (AP) — The Brazilian government announced it will direct funds to a biomedical research center to help develop a vaccine against a virus linked to brain damage in babies.
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South Korea says finds hogs infected with foot-and-mouth
South Korea has detected foot-and-mouth in a southwestern hog farm, the first such discovery in nine months and a blow to authorities pushing to contain the disease. The case involved a type of the disease that animals are inoculated against in South Korea, with all 670 hogs at the infected farm in the city of…
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Kentucky governor to dismantle state’s health insurance exchange: newspaper
Bevin's office was not immediately available for comment. Bevin, a Republican, has said his goal is to complete the transition of the state's system, known as “kynect,” by the end of 2016 to the federal system, the Louisville newspaper said. Bevin had pledged to dismantle the health exchange authorized by executive order of his predecessor,…
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U.S. hogs fed pig remains, manure to fend off deadly virus return
In Oklahoma, farm workers are mixing manure from swine sick with the disease, known as Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv), into the food of healthy animals to build their immunity. The virus, which causes severe diarrhea that kills baby pigs, thrives in cold weather, and declining immunity in the U.S. herd has raised the risk…
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Nurofen to be pulled in Australia over misleading claims
Nurofen feels pain in Australia over misleading claimsdrug giant Reckitt Benckiser was Monday ordered to pull some of its popular Nurofen painkiller brands off shelves in Australia after a court ruled they made misleading claims. Australia's consumer watchdog took court action in March, disputing Nurofen packaging that products in its Nurofen Specific Pain range were…
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Liberia’s last Ebola contacts finish quarantine
More than 160 people deemed at risk of catching Ebola in Liberia finished their mandatory surveillance period on Friday, taking the worst affected country a step closer to ending the epidemic. Liberia was the first of West Africa's three most badly hit countries to be declared Ebola-free, once in May and again in September, but…
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UNICEF: AIDS leading cause of death for African teenagers
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — While the global push to eradicate HIV may have saved over a million babies, AIDS is now the leading cause of death for African teenagers and the second most common killer for adolescents across the globe, the United Nations' agency for children said on Friday.