The Zika virus, which featured prominently in the news during the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics, may be making a resurgence this summer. No cases have been reported in…
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This summer it seemed Zika was everywhere, and spreading fast. Where do we stand in our fight against this dangerous virus?
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image: the Aedes albopictus mosquito, also known as the Asian tiger mosquito Once upon a time — a couple of months ago — there were no cases of the Zika…
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If you have heard people talking about the Zika virus and do not know what exactly it is, you are not the only one. According to World Health Organization (WHO),…
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The global health community is abuzz with discussions of Disease X, a term coined by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2017 to represent a potential unknown pathogen capable of…
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Infectious diseases like Ebola, West Nile virus and Zika make headlines every year. While none of these have reached pandemic levels of incidence, a global pandemic is still a risk…
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We all know that global climate change is a huge problem. Relatively small increases in temperature can cause the sea levels to rise, as well as droughts, storms, heatwaves, and…
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It’s easy to get caught up in headline furor, but the fact is we’ve always been a nation of immigrants. Here’s one man’s experience of how some are building America.