Rise in travelers with Chikungunya virus reported
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Cases of the mosquito-borne Chikungunya   virus in people returning to Britain from islands in the Indian   Ocean have risen dramatically, public health experts said on   Wednesday.
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Tens of thousands of survivors are at risk from diseases spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and crowding.
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Kane County health officials again this week warned residents against forgetting about West Nile virus as the number of virus-carrying mosquitoes appears to be on the rise.
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By JUSTIN YURKANIN, Staff. St. Johns County&#39;s growing mosquito population could cause some human cases of the West Nile Virus locally, says Xue Ruide, entomologist for the Anastasia Mosquito Control District.
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ROME -- New infectious diseases are emerging at an "unprecedented rate," and far greater human mobility -- by planes, trains, and ships -- means that infectious diseases have the potential to spread across the globe rapidly, a World Health Organization report warned yesterday.
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Airline travel has a significant effect on the spread of influenza, a new study reports.
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Polio cases rose by more than half worldwide last year after a vaccine boycott in Nigeria led to a resurgence of the disease across Africa, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
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World tourism broke all records in 2006 despite fears over terrorism, bird flu and rising oil prices, the United Nations tourism watchdog reported Monday. A total of 842 million international tourist arrivals were recorded last year, an increase of 4.5 percent, the Madrid-based World Tourism Organization said, citing preliminary data.
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The International Air Transport Association said Monday international air travel and cargo transport rose more than expected. In the first eight months of this year, passenger travel increased by nearly 19
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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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An outbreak of avian influenza in a family in Thailand has raised fears that the virus might have been transferred directly between humans.
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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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A spate of recent deaths has stirred fears of a broader outbreak among people and raised the possibility of a human pandemic.
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THE number of women living with HIV has risen in each region of the world over the past two years, with the steepest increases in East Africa, followed by Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to latest findings published in a report entitled: Aids
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The number of reported cases of West Nile virus in California has jumped 32 percent since Tuesday to 249, state health officials said Friday.
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KELOWNA - As many as 2,400 people from around the world might have been exposed to the hepatitis A virus through an infected worker at a popular Kelowna restaurant, health officials said Wednesday.
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PRETORIA -- The number of women infected with HIV is rising in every region of the world, according to a new UN report released yesterday, and top AIDS officials said long-used strategies to help prevent the spread of the deadly disease among women are woefully inadequate.