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Deadly salmonella outbreak linked to papayas
CNN
(CNN)Forty-seven people in 12 states have become infected with salmonella believed to be linked to yellow Maradol papayas, federal health officials said Friday. | Twelve people have been hospitalized, and one death has been reported, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. | ...
Archive: Quarantined Ebola worker sues Christie
North Jersey
This article was originally published October 23, 2015.  | A nurse held for three days in quarantine at a Newark hospital last year after aiding Ebola patients in West Africa has filed suit against Governor Christie and members of his administration,...
Archive: Ebola isolation in legal gray area
North Jersey
This article was originally published October 31, 2015.  | In one corner stands a nurse volunteer who treated Ebola victims in West Africa, then found herself quarantined for three days in New Jersey, a forced isolation that became a cause célèbre fo...
Campaign Underway to Stem Polio Outbreak in Syria's Deir Ezzor
Voa News
A United Nations-led polio immunization campaign to stem an outbreak of this crippling disease is under way in Syria's Deir Ezzor Governorate. The campaign, headed by the World Health Organization and United Nations Children's Fund, started on July 2...
NJ issues new rules after lawsuit by Ebola-quarantined nurse
CBS News
Attorneys said the decision was the result of a lawsuit filed by Kaci Hickox​, a nurse who had been working in Sierra Leone during the deadly Ebola outbreak​ in 2014 ... ...
The electronic cigarettes (or E-cigarette) are cigarette-shaped device containing a nicotine-based (or not) liquid that is vaporized and inhaled, used to simulate the experience of smoking tobacco. Smokers are turning to electronic cigarettes to help them quit smoking
European Community / Franois Walschaerts
Tobacco industry hampers global strategy to stop smoking epidemic – WHO
Russia Today
The global tobacco industry continues to interfere with governments' efforts to implement the World Health Organization's (WHO) policy package which aims to reduce peoples demand f...
A doctor administers an injection to a woman at a fever clinic especially set up to cater to those suffering from fever, one of the main symptoms of several mosquito-borne diseases, at Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016.
AP / Manish Swarup
A Massive Dengue Crisis Has Infected 10,000 In Kerala, A Top Tourist Spot In India
Newsweek
 A dengue outbreak has killed at least 21 people in India's southern state of Kerala in the past three weeks, a government official said, adding that there was a shortage of med...
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