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Thousands of refugees stuck at Jordan border face risk of epidemics
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
London [U.K.], Sept. 4 (ANI): Aid workers have warned that tens of thousands of "ghost" refugees, who have been trapped in the desert along Jordan's border with Syria for more than two months, are at a risk of epidemics.
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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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More than 90m people may get Zika over next few years
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C, Jul 26 (ANI): As many as 93 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean, including 1.6 million childbearing women, are at risk of catching the Zika virus before the epidemic burns out, according to a team of researchers.
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Catch them young to keep them healthy, says PRB report
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi, July 22 (ANI-Newsvoir): "Promoting healthy behaviours among young people is key to curbing a growing epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs)", say Toshiko Kaneda, Senior Research Associate, and Reshma Naik, a senior policy analyst, the authors of a new report by the
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Vaccine development necessary to end the AIDS epidemic
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi, July 15 (ANI): A team from International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), led by President and CEO, Mark Feinberg, will be encouraging the global response to end HIV at the 21st International AIDS Conference, in Durban, South Africa.
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'War on Drugs' pushing world towards HIV, TB, hepatitis epidemic
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C, Jul 15 (ANI): The War on Drugs, mass incarceration of drug users and the failure to provide proven harm reduction and treatment strategies have driven up global epidemics of HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis B and C, reveals a new study.
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Zika epidemic likely to 'burn itself out' in 'three years&#
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C, Jul 15 (ANI): According to a new study, Zika epidemic in Latin America is likely to "burn itself out" within three years.
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HIV epidemic, a blast from past that entered future
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C, Jul 10 (ANI): It may no longer be the death it once was, but HIV continues to haunt the gay men across the world, suggests a recent study.
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