Travelers to tropics, beware chikungunya fever
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NEW YORK  - People who've visited tropical   areas -- particularly India and islands in the Indian Ocean --   and are suffering from fever and joint pain could have   chikungunya virus infection, public health officials warn.
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&quot;Traditional practices, such as genital mutilation, early marriage and the practice of newly bereaved widows being &#39;inherited&#39; by other male relatives also increased women&#39;s exposure to the virus,&quot; the human rights group reported.
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Less than two weeks ago, Dr. Duane Gubler was walking the streets of Galle in Sri Lanka, heading a World Health Organization team assessing the country&#39;s response to dengue hemorrhagic fever.
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Travellers to Africa from South East Asia and South America should be screened and treated for drug-resistant malaria, experts advise.
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The risk of developing potentially fatal blood clots doubles after travel lasting four hours, experts find.
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Health officials were searching for airline passengers who may have come in contact with a 30-year-old woman infected with a hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis on a flight from India.
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JOHANNESBURG - International medical personnel and supplies are being airlifted to a remote region of central Democratic Republic of Congo to combat what threatens to become the world's most serious outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in years.
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Researchers have found more cases of an illness that&#39;s causing cramps, diarrhea, nausea, fever and chills among visitors to the Put-In-Bay resort area, the Ohio Department of Health said Saturday.
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GENEVA - Respiratory and water-borne diseases could break out in areas affected by southern Asia&#39;s tsunami disaster &quot;in the next few days,&quot; a UN official warned Wednesday.
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Americans traveling to some parts of the Dominican Republic should take the drug chloroquine to protect themselves from a malaria outbreak, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.
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August and September mark the peak season for West Nile virus in humans and New Jersey health officials are urging residents to remain vigilant in guarding against mosquitoes carrying the deadly disease.
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Travel: Travellers to Italy's north-east urged to protect themselves against deadly tropical virus.
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There are warnings of a serious outbreak of disease in Haiti following the recent devastating floods.
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A man with a rare and dangerous form of tuberculosis may have spread the disease to passengers and crew on two trans-Atlantic flights earlier this month
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A small region in northern Italy is battling what may be Europe's first epidemic of the crippling, mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus, a senior official at the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS) told Reuters.
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ASIA/INDIA - Villaggio cattolico di pescatori nel Kerala colpito dal virus chikungunya che ha causato 70 morti. Anche questo virus Ã¨ trasmesso dalla zanzara tigre Roma (Agenzia Fides) - Nelle ultime tre settimane lo stato settentrionale indiano del Kerala Ã¨ stato colpito da una epidemia di chikungunya, la Âmalattia dellÂuomo curvoÂ, simile alla dengue. \
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JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 18 -- International medical personnel and supplies are being airlifted to a remote region of central Congo to combat what threatens to become the world's most serious outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in years.