Tag: health
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Despite threats, thousands join anti-polio drive in Pakistan, a last bastion of the disease
KARACHI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – More than 100,000 health workers fanned out across Pakistan on Monday, stepping up a drive to eliminate the polio virus this year from one of its last bastions, despite continuing militant threats to vaccination teams. Pakistan accounts for more than 70 percent of the world's cases of polio, a virus that can…
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Despite threats, thousands join anti-polio drive in Pakistan, a last bastion of the disease
KARACHI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – More than 100,000 health workers fanned out across Pakistan on Monday, stepping up a drive to eliminate the polio virus this year from one of its last bastions, despite continuing militant threats to vaccination teams. Pakistan accounts for more than 70 percent of the world's cases of polio, a virus that can…
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Study finds Zika virus in fetal brain, a clue in outbreak
WASHINGTON (AP) — New details about the possible effects of the Zika virus on the fetal brain are emerging as researchers report finding an extremely abnormal brain in a fetus whose mother suffered Zika symptoms at the end of the first trimester while she was living in Brazil.
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Lab criticized as slow to act in fatal French drug trial
By Matthias Blamont PARIS (Reuters) – An initial inquiry into a clinical drug trial that left one person dead and five others hospitalized in France last month found that the laboratory conducting the tests was slow to react when the first patient fell ill. A full investigation aimed at identifying the exact causes is expected…
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Lab criticized as slow to act in fatal French drug trial
By Matthias Blamont PARIS (Reuters) – An initial inquiry into a clinical drug trial that left one person dead and five others hospitalized in France last month found that the laboratory conducting the tests was slow to react when the first patient fell ill. A full investigation aimed at identifying the exact causes is expected…
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Spain reports first known European case of Zika-infected pregnant woman
Spain said Thursday that a pregnant woman who had returned from Colombia had been diagnosed with the Zika virus, in the first such known European case. “One of the patients diagnosed in (the northeastern region of) Catalonia is a pregnant woman, who showed symptoms after having travelled to Colombia,” the health ministry announced, adding she…
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Spain reports first known European case of Zika-infected pregnant woman
Spain said Thursday that a pregnant woman who had returned from Colombia had been diagnosed with the Zika virus, in the first such known European case. “One of the patients diagnosed in (the northeastern region of) Catalonia is a pregnant woman, who showed symptoms after having travelled to Colombia,” the health ministry announced, adding she…
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Sexually-transmitted Zika case confirmed in Texas
DALLAS (AP) — Health officials on Tuesday reported that a person in Texas has become infected with the Zika virus through sex in the first case of the illness being transmitted within the United States amid the current outbreak in Latin America.
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First U.S. Zika virus transmission reported, attributed to sex
By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – The first known case of Zika virus transmission in the United States was reported in Texas on Tuesday by local health officials, who said it likely was contracted through sex and not a mosquito bite, a day after the World Health Organization declared an international public health emergency.…