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Spotlight on Japanese Encephalitis: A Neglected Public Health Problem

October 11, 2012January 25, 2023 Katharina Schwan

Between June and September, monsoon rains sweep across India, washing away the arid soil of the summer and irrigating the enormous rice fields that stretch

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Spotlight: SARS

October 2, 2012January 25, 2023 Jason Hayes

Few media-hyped events pose such a lurking, pit-of-your-stomach discomfort as the rapid, global emergence of a new disease. The sound of ambulance sirens, the sight

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Spotlight on Leprosy: Two Thousand Years of Solitude

August 8, 2012January 25, 2023 Katharina Schwan

Leper (noun): a person who is ignored or despised. The leper is historically depicted as an outcast, a criminal, and most certainly someone to be

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Spotlight: Why Cannibalism is Bad for You

July 26, 2012January 25, 2023 Jason Hayes

Spotlight Series: Kuru Although it is not expressly stated in the umbrella values of most dogmas or individual moral compasses, eating people is generally frowned

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Mass Gatherings Series: Health and Infectious Disease at Occupy Camps

November 18, 2011January 25, 2023 Anna Tomasulo

Last Friday, Nov. 11 2011, the Fulton County Health department in Atlanta, Ga. confirmed cases of single-drug resistant tuberculosis at the Occupy Atlanta camp. The

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Series: Mass Gatherings and Infectious Disease

November 11, 2011January 25, 2023 Anna Tomasulo

As mentioned last week on The Disease Daily, HealthMap has created a special map to track any infectious disease outbreaks that occur during Hajj. The

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