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Can Dams Increase the Risk of Malaria?
Living close to a dam could increase the risk of contracting malaria, a new study conducted in sub-Saharan Africa has found.
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5 dengue vaccines in development
Currently, there are no approved vaccines or therapies to prevent dengue infection. The disease, which primarily affects children, is associated with approximately 22,000 deaths annually worldwide, according to the CDC. Infectious Disease News has compiled information on five candidate dengue vaccines in various stages of development.
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Mobile Phone Records May Predict Epidemics of Mosquito-Borne Dengue Virus
A new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health finds that mobile phone records can be used to predict the geographical spread and timing of dengue epidemics. More people around the world are becoming vulnerable to this deadly virus as climate change expands the range of the mosquito that transmits dengue and infected travelers spread the disease across borders. Utilizing the largest data set of mobile phone records ever analyzed to estimate human mobility, the researchers developed an innovative model that can predict epidemics and provide critical early warning to policy makers.
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Viewpoint: The World’s New Health Goal Will Need Game-Changing Health Technologies
Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for everyone at any age is a tall order, particularly if the aim is to achieve this by 2030. Yet this is the mandate of the third Sustainable Development Goal (SDG3), one of a set of 17 global goals designed to guide development priorities for the next 15 years.
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- Environment, Health Care
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WHO Declares Liberia Ebola-Free for Second Time
The World Health Organization Thursday declared Liberia Ebola-free for the second time.The declaration for the second time follows an outbreak of the disease in Lower Margibi County that claimed three lives days after the country was first declared Ebola-free by the WHO.
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OPINION: Putting an end to global health’s ‘silent killer’
Viral hepatitis is the seventh leading cause of death worldwide. Together, hepatitis B and C cause approximately 80 percent of all liver cancer deaths and kill close to 1.4 million people every year — more than either HIV or tuberculosis.
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WHO Promotes Water, Sanitation to Battle Neglected Tropical Diseases
Water, sanitation and hygiene are part of a new World Health Organisation strategy to fight neglected tropical diseases which afflict more than 1.5 billion people, the WHO said on Thursday.
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Global Life Expectancy Rises, but People Live Sicker for Longer
People around the world are living longer, but many are also living sicker lives for longer, according to a study of all major diseases and injuries in 188 countries.
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