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disease

Leptospirosis cases in Phl drop by 77%
Leptospirosis cases in the country dropped by 77 percent, the Department of Health (DOH) reported Thursday.
19 September 20242 MIN READ
‘Threat multiplier’: How climate change affects health
Deadlier than Covid, or even rivalling cancer? Researchers have been increasingly attempting to calculate the effect climate change will have on health if the…
11 November 20223 MIN READ
Uganda to close schools after eight children die of Ebola
Uganda will close schools nationwide later this month after 23 Ebola cases were confirmed among pupils, including eight children who died, the country's first…
8 November 20222 MIN READ
After the floods, a wave of disease plagues Pakistan
His head haloed by a whirlwind of mosquitoes, Aamir Hussain stands on the roof of his home in southern Pakistan surveying the fetid floodwaters all around.
7 October 20224 MIN READ
New York polio case stirs fear, vaccine push
When Brittany Strickland heard that the United States recorded its first polio case in almost a decade, she was "deathly scared" — the 33-year-old…
3 September 20223 MIN READ