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UW Study Offers Real-Time Testing For Flu Virus (KOMO News - Features Helen Chu)
Only 10-20% of people with flu-like symptoms actually have the influenza virus. But a new study in Seattle will offer real time testing of the flu this year promising results in less than 30 minutes. ...
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Five Ways Climate Change Impacts Health — and How Clinicians Can Mitigate its Effect (Healio - Features Jeremy Hess)
Although the link between climate change and health is “becoming increasingly clear,” the medical community is generally unaware of how much climate change is impacting patients today, experts told Healio Primary Care. ...
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Washington Tuberculosis Expert Receives Local Public Health Award
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Register Now: 11th Annual Western Regional International Health Conference (WRIHC): April 4-6, 2014
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PrEParing family planning clinics in Kenya to prevent new HIV infections
In sub-Saharan Africa, many young women and adolescent girls are at high risk of HIV infection. In a new research paper published in the open access journal PLOS Medicine , Kenneth Mugwanya and co-authors report on a study aiming to investigate the...
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Sean Galagan
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New Computer Model Predicts Where Ebola Might Strike Next
Predicting where Ebola might strike next could become easier, thanks to a new computer model. The model tracks how changes in the environment and in human societies could affect the deadly virus’s spread. It predicts that Ebola outbreaks could become as...
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Clive Anderson
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Healio: One Health Approach Essential to Controlling Public Health Threats
Rocky Mountain spotted fever can be deadly to both humans and dogs, but diagnosing a dog with the tickborne illness does not guarantee that the owner will be examined for it, even though he or she may have been exposed to the infection through the same...
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Fact check: Vaccines can't be sprayed in 'chemtrails,' scientists say
The inhaled vaccine technology being developed at Yale cannot be sprayed from the sky in a “chemtrail,” as a social media post suggests. Inhaled vaccines require measured doses delivered directly into the nose. Experts agreed spraying a vaccine from...