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What is Tetanus?

August 13, 2019January 25, 2023 Emily Cohn

By Joan Connelly and Emily Cohn Image courtesy of Blake Patterson on Flickr, CC Tetanus is a non-communicable disease caused by exposure to the toxin-producing

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EpiCore RFIs: Measles Among Batek Tribe, Malaysia

June 20, 2019January 25, 2023 Emily Cohn

An article came into the HealthMap system reporting that there had been 14 deaths of unknown origin among an isolated indigenous group in Kelantan state

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EpiCore RFIs: Influenza on Emirates Flight 203

September 14, 2018 Emily Cohn

  On 5 September 2018, HealthMap noted multiple news-media reports and twitter posts of sick passengers on an Emirates flight, which had landed at John

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Human-to-Human H7N9 Transmission

July 24, 2017 Emily Cohn

  Over the past four years, since its emergence in 2013, China has experienced seasonal epidemics of avian influenza subtype H7N9. The country has been

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European Foulbrood – What’s all the buzz?

July 14, 2017 Emily Cohn

  Bees are dying at alarming rates (42% of colonies in the US collapsed in 2015, but has been a worldwide issue)[1] and the drop-off

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Flint finally getting the support it deserves after Legionnaire’s outbreak

March 23, 2017 Emily Cohn

  Three years have passed since the drinking water of Flint, Michigan was initially contaminated with lead. In order to reduce costs, the city’s water

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H7N9 Emerges Across China

February 23, 2017 Emily Cohn

  Europe is not the only continent in the middle of a bird flu epidemic. While other Asian countries such as South Korea and Japan

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H5N8 Avian Influenza in India

November 30, 2016 Emily Cohn

  Just one month after being declared free from the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of Avian Influenza, India reported several outbreaks of a different strain,

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Zika-linked Microcephaly Cases in Cape Verde

June 28, 2016 Emily Cohn

On 23rd of June, Cape Verde’s Ministry of Health reported that there had been 11 cases of Zika virus-linked microcephaly on the small African nation

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Zika-linked Microcephaly Cases in Cape Verde

June 28, 2016 Emily Cohn

On 23rd of June, Cape Verde’s Ministry of Health reported that there had been 11 cases of Zika virus-linked microcephaly on the small African nation

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