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The Roman Forum, the political, economic, cultural, and religious center of the city during the Republic and later Empire, now lies in ruins in modern-day Rome.
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Plague Helped End Roman Empire, DNA From Medieval Graveyard Suggests
Huffington Post
By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor | Published: 05/10/2013 09:48 AM EDT on LiveScience | Plague may have helped finish off the Roman Empire, researchers now reveal. | Plague is a fatal disease so infamous that it has become synonymous with any dangerous, widespread contagion. It was linked to...
High, Dengue Fever Patients in South Jakarta
Berita Jakarta
  | The number of dengue fever (DBD) case happened in South Jakarta is still high. It is recorded that from January to May 16, as many as 763 residents there have suffered from dengue fever. Such amount is an increase compared to last year. | â€...
Wales measles epidemic prompts rubella outbreak warning
BBC News
Health officials have warned that action is needed to prevent a rubella outbreak, which can be particularly dangerous to pregnant women. | Public Health Wales and national deaf-blind charity Sense say about 38,000 young people in Wales have not had t...
Yellow-White Virus Pandemic
All Africa
[Daily Trust]Kano City's architecture throws at a visitor a combination of simplicity, power and confidence in navigating time's journey through history. It defied, for our group, a pontificating thrust by an academic that the impact it had on us did...
Dengue threat looms large over Pathanamthitta
The Hindu
Pre-monsoon showers have heightened the dengue fever threat in Pathanamthitta, especially in the hilly tracts of the district. | District Medical Officer Gracy Ithaq told The Hindu that as on Thursday, 81 people were undergoing treatment for dengue f...
Facing meningitis outbreak, UN and South Sudan announce vaccination campaign in Upper Nile
UN / UN
Facing meningitis outbreak, UN and South Sudan announce vaccination campaign in Upper Nile
United Nations
Print | 9 May 2013 – The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) and South Sudan today announced they will carry out a vaccination campaign to address a meningitis outbr...
Ivo Karlovic in the Singles Final against Ernests Gulbis during the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships in Delray Beach, Florida - February 28, 2010
WN / Aruna Gilbert
Ivo Karlovic recovering after being admitted to hospital with viral meningitis
Sky Sports
Croatia's Ivo Karlovic is recovering in hospital in Miami after being admitted with viral meningitis. | The 34-year-old's wife Alsi has, however, dismissed reports that her husband...
Civilians inspect the aftermath of a car bomb attack in the Husseiniyah area of northeastern Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 25, 2013.
AP / Hadi Mizban
Iraq PM Maliki warns of 'plague of sectarianism'
BBC News
Iraq's prime minister has warned that a plague of sectarianism is threatening Arab nations, after the most widespread violence there since US troops left. | Nouri Maliki said ...
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The Ministry of Agriculture called in thousands of chicks in poultry farms for fear of transmission of the "bird flu" in Deir al-Balah , which had been smuggled in through border tunnels between Egypt and Gaza on February 05, 2013. Director of Veterinary in Gaza Nabil Goda has notified local authorities that over 10 thousand chickens, imported through Egypt smuggling tunnels, will have to be culled in fear of bird flu.Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN What to know about the new bird flu virus
PhysOrg
How is H7N9 different from other bird flu viruses we've seen in the past? | The H7N9 is a novel reassortant influenza A virus, which very likely origi... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
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Facing meningitis outbreak, UN and South Sudan announce vaccination campaign in Upper Nile Facing meningitis outbreak, UN and South Sudan announce vaccination campaign in Upper Nile
United Nations
Print | 9 May 2013 – The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) and South Sudan today announced they will carry out a vaccination campaign... (photo: UN / UN)
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