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Yellow Fever in Brazil

During the last six weeks, there have been several travellers identified with yellow fever, including people returning to the Netherlands, France, Romania, and Switzerland. In total, there have been 9 patients identified with ...

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Yellow Fever in Nigeria

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has reported an ongoing outbreak of yellow fever that began in September 2017. Laboratory-confirmed yellow fever cases have been reported in at least seven states, and a number ...

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Travel Health

Excellent advice for people wishing to travel and who are over the age of 55 years or have chronic medical conditions, can be found in Chapter 8 of the CDC handbook at
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Drug-resistant malaria poses new challenges in Southeast Asia

Strains of malaria circulating in Southeast Asia are becoming resistant to artemisinin and piperaquine, and health officials in Thailand are concerned about a global resurgence of the disease.

Thailand is working to ...

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A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine reports on the in HIV incidence in Uganda between 1999 and 2016.

They found a decline of 42% and attribute this to a number of factors including behavioural change of ...

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The number of Zika cases in Florida this year has reached 200, and 167 of them have been classified as travel-related. One case was locally transmitted, and 32 were indefinite, according to the Florida Department of ...

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