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Mitch Wolfe, MD, former Chief Medical Officer of CDC, offers some insights on mpox including the benefits of declaring a global emergency, disease transmission, and considerations for both the US public and clinicians. This week there was both a declaration by Africa CDC that the ongoing mpox outbreak is a...

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a health alert in response to an ongoing mpox outbreak in Central African involving a strain of the virus that causes more severe infections. The CDC said Wednesday it was issuing a health alert to provide “additional information” about the...

CDC warns of more severe mpox strain spreading in Central Africa

The world today is more understanding – and embracing – of cannabis use than it has ever been before. Oddly enough, the green herb with its distinctive odor has quickly jumped the ranks from a controversial substance to an almost celebrated component of pop culture. However, like with...

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Mohamed Bassyouni has helped develop vaccines. He also has felt the pernicious effects of vaccine hesitancy, he writes.

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Whooping cough is spreading nationwide. Here's what to know.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced a multi-state salmonella outbreak linked to several Florida-based cucumber producers. The CDC has reported 449 salmonella cases linked to the contaminated cucumbers across 31 states and Washington, D.C., with 125 hospitalizations but no fatalities. A recall has been issued for the tainted cucumbers and the CDC has stated that all contaminated products have been removed from shelves.

CDC reports salmonella outbreak linked to cucumbers

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Verywell Health

Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne virus that causes high fever and muscle and joint pain. The virus is common in tropical climates and is only transmitted by mosquitos. However, dengue fever cases have doubled in the last year globally, and are on the rise in the continental United States. You...

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Recent data from the CDC shows that over half of the United States have reported very high levels of COVID-19 activity.

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Saint Louis, MO

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Ziyad Al-Aly is chief of research and development at VA St. Louis Health Care System and a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis.Since 2020, the condition known as long COVID-19 has become a widespread disability affecting the health and quality of life of millions of people across the globe and costing economies billions of dollars in reduced productivity of employees and an overall drop in the work force. The intense scientific effort that long COVID sparked has resulted in more than 24,000 scientific publications, making it the most researched health condition in any four years of recorded human history.Long COVID...

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This year’s area of low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Thursday. The “dead zone” is approximately 6,705 square miles , as measured last week. Within NOAA’s 38 years of measuring the dead zone, this year’s assessment marks the 12th-largest area of low to no oxygen, which can kill fish and marine life.

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World Health Organization declares MPOX a Global Health Emergency: Should Pennsylvanians be concerned?

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World Health Organization declares MPOX a Global Health Emergency: Should Pennsylvanians be concerned?

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