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Study links disease outbreaks to deforestation, forest conversion and palm
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], March 24 (ANI): Deforestation, certain types of reforestation and commercial palm plantations correlate with increasing outbreaks of infectious disease, shows a new study in Frontiers in Veterinary Science.
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Refugee centers in Ethiopia's Tigray at risk of disease outbreaks: UNICEF
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Addis Ababa [Ethopia], March 12 (ANI/Sputnik): There are widespread concerns that overcrowding at refugee centers and lack of health facilities will drive disease outbreaks in Ethiopia's conflict-torn Tigray region, a UNICEF spokesman told Sputnik.
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Trial gives hope for better control of mosquito-borne disease outbreaks
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 3 (ANI): An international study, led by QIMR Berghofer researchers, has shown that a new device that targets 'Aedes aegypti' mosquitos could be extremely useful in the fight against mosquito-borne diseases such as Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika.
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Fake news can make disease outbreaks worse, research shows
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 14 (ANI): It has come to notice that the spread of misinformation, harmful advice, fake news about diseases could be making its outbreaks worse, according to new research from the University of East Anglia (UEA).
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The power of empathy to halt disease outbreaks
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 17 (ANI): Turns out, it just takes a little empathy to halt infectious disease outbreaks.
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Chikungunya can affect your eyes too, says expert
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct. 2 (ANI): For the past two months Delhi NCR has been riding the tsunami of two most distressing disease outbreaks- Chikungunya and Dengue fever.
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Swapping ill workers for healthy ones speeds up epidemics
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C, Aug 2 (ANI): When disease outbreaks occur, replacing infected key individuals with healthy ones may actually spread the illness more rapidly through a community, suggests a recent study.
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