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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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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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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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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