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California’s New Vaccine Law

July 13, 2015July 21, 2022 Colleen Nguyen

On Tuesday, June 30th, Governor Jerry Brown of California signed into law SB 277. The new law requires children attending daycare programs and public or

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Guinea Pig in the Time of Chagas

June 28, 2015July 21, 2022 Colleen Nguyen

Although endemic in parts of Latin America, studies show that it is hard to transmit Chagas disease. Research studies have estimated that for one infected

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Hybrid ‘Super’ Mosquito Reported in Mali

February 22, 2015January 25, 2023 Colleen Nguyen

Two types of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes in Mali — Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles coluzzii — have interbred to create a new hybrid “super” mosquito resistant to

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NYC’s New Flu Mandate

January 23, 2015January 25, 2023 Colleen Nguyen

As the festivities at Times Square ushered in the new year, for young children in New York City, it also signified the start of a

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NYC’s New Flu Mandate

January 23, 2015January 25, 2023 Colleen Nguyen

As the festivities at Times Square ushered in the new year, for young children in New York City, it also signified the start of a

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New Antibiotics – Near or Far?

January 21, 2015January 25, 2023 Emily Cohn

In the grand scheme of things, antibiotics are fairly new additions to our medical repertoire. Germ theory achieved general scientific acceptance around the 1860s [1].

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Hope for the New Year: A Dengue Vaccine in 2015?

January 16, 2015January 25, 2023 Colleen Nguyen

  What is Dengue? A virus transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes, dengue is a flu-like illness characterized by a high fever and

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Estimating the fatality of the 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak

September 10, 2014January 25, 2023 Maia Majumder

Estimating the fatality of the 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak “Case fatality rate” – or CFR – is a term that’s been tossed around a

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World Hepatitis Day 2014

July 28, 2014January 25, 2023 Alexandra Thomsen

Monday, July 28 marks World Hepatitis Day, a global public health campaign led by the WHO to raise awareness about the five hepatitis viruses (A,

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The Quest for Big Data – Does it Ever End?

June 18, 2014January 25, 2023 Karen Biala

Perhaps more than ever before, massive amounts of health data are available at the click of a mouse. HealthMap, for example, utilizes an automated process

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