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The Return of Measles – The Atlantic

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Measles seems poised to make a comeback in America. Two adults and two children staying at a migrant shelter in Chicago have gotten sick with the disease. A sick kid in Sacramento, California, may have exposed hundreds of people to the virus at the hospital. Three other people were diagnosed in Michigan, along with seven from the same elementary school in Florida. As of Thursday, 17 states have reported cases to the CDC since the start of the year. (For

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From killer cantaloupe to bacteria-infested beef: Watchdog names the 10 most dangerous food recalls and poisoning outbreaks of 2023

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Food-borne illnesses sickened thousands of people in the US last year, with pathogens including salmonella and E. coli lurking in cantaloupe, alfalfa sprouts, ground beef, and more.

Every year, food pathogens send 128,000 Americans to the hospital, and 3,000 die. The Food and Drug Administration has oversight over the food industry and steps in to recall contaminated items such as bagged salads when reports of poisonings begin cropping up across the country.

The tallies for illnesses and deaths due to

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How Covid lockdowns opened Pandora’s box of diseases: From old foes like polio to new enemies like monkeypox – how avoiding common germs left us MORE vulnerable to outbreaks

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Now that the dust has settled on Covid, experts are warning that the fallout from the pandemic might kill more people than the virus ever did.

Increasingly, evidence shows that lockdowns, mask mandates, school closures and canceled hospital appointments triggered a mental health crisis, robbed children of vital learning and created a ticking time bomb scenario for cancer and heart disease patients.

But those pandemic measures appear to have made the US population more vulnerable to pathogens — both old

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Argentina declared free from avian flu as 18 commercial farm outbreaks subside

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Argentina is free of cases of avian flu after the last of 18 outbreaks at commercial farms came to an end, the country’s agricultural secretary said on Tuesday.

Argentina’s first case of avian flu in commercial poultry was detected in February, pausing poultry exports for a month. Shipments restarted in March after the Argentine government reached agreements

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Outbreaks and Uprisings in Orhan Pamuk’s “Nights of Plague”

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Six years ago, the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk started writing a historical novel about the outbreak of bubonic plague on a fictional island. He’d been dreaming of such a project for decades: as a student of history and of the great European plague chronicles and novels—Defoe’s “A Journal of a Plague Year,” Manzoni’s “The Betrothed,” Camus’s “The Plague”—he had a particular interest in the way that plagues have tended to get what we might now call “Orientalized.” Muslims, especially in

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Covid outbreaks now shrinking in 96% of England’s neighbourhoods

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Coronavirus cases are now falling in virtually every area of England, official figures show as the Omicron wave continues to collapse with deaths six times lower than in the second wave.

Some 6,519 out of 6,790 neighbourhoods (96 per cent) around the country recorded a fall in infections in the week to January 11, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). 

It means 54million people are living in places with declining case rates now just eight weeks after Omicron

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Covid outbreaks are now shrinking in TWO-THIRDS of London’s neighbourhoods

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Covid cases are now falling in two-thirds of London’s neighbourhoods, MailOnline can reveal amid buoyed hopes that the Omicron wave is already slowing down after just a month. 

Some 622 of 983 districts dotted across the capital saw their coronavirus infection rates drop last week, in a sign that the worst may already be over. 

Experts fear the U-turn may be because fewer tests were carried out over the festive period, with up to 4million Londoners — nearly half the

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Covid outbreaks SEXTUPLED in size in week before Christmas in England’s worst-hit neighbourhoods

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England’s worst-hit neighbourhoods saw their Covid outbreaks sextuple in size during the week before Christmas, according to MailOnline’s analysis of Government statistics which lays bare how quickly Omicron has torn through the country.

Cases in Lower Penwortham North, a district of Preston, jumped from 196 to 1,192 per 100,000 people in the week leading up to December 22, the latest date regional data is available for.

Official statistics also show the number of positive tests doubled over the same time-frame

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Belgium and Austria’s Covid outbreaks overtake UK despite having restrictions such as face masks

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Britain’s Covid outbreak is no longer the worst in Western Europe, according to official data that shows infections are beginning to soar across the continent.

Cases spiked in the UK when schools went back in September, which led to the country being branded Europe’s coronavirus capital by advocates of the Government’s ‘Plan B’ strategy.

Many scientists, including No10’s own, argued that the UK was only recording higher case, hospital and death rates because it is testing far more than other

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