Category: 6. Health
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Namibia reports 2nd cholera outbreak of the year, the first outbreaks in more than a decade
The Namibia Ministry of Health reported six cholera cases, with three confirmed, and no deaths from Grootfontein District, Otjozondjupa Region on November 24.
This is the second cholera outbreak reported in 2025.
This year, a cumulative of 24 cases…
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Flu cases likely to ‘spike’ in coming weeks, warns health secretary
Neil Gray spoke to BBC Scotland’s The Sunday Show about flu cases in Scotland. Flu cases in Scotland are expected to “spike” in the coming weeks, the health secretary has warned.
Neil Gray MSP said rates of the illness are following a similar trend…
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Grim Signals of Future Antimicrobial Resistance Found Lurking in Sewage : ScienceAlert
Dangerous bacteria and other disease-causing microbes are rapidly evolving ways to defy our best antibiotic medications, a phenomenon known as antimicrobial resistance. Humans are inadvertently contributing by overexposing pathogens to our…
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Intravenous iron shows safe and beneficial outcomes for patients with bacterial infection and anemia
Treatment with intravenous (IV) iron significantly improved survival and increased hemoglobin levels in patients with iron-deficiency anemia who were hospitalized for an acute bacterial infection, according to an analysis of data…
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Scientists keep a human alive with a genetically engineered pig liver
A recent study in the Journal of Hepatology describes the first successful auxiliary liver xenotransplant from a genetically engineered pig into a living human. The recipient survived for 171 days, providing early evidence that modified porcine…
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Study finds no specific harms linked to hydroxyurea exposure during pregnancy
Taking the sickle cell drug hydroxyurea during or shortly before pregnancy does not appear to cause specific issues in newborns, according to the first prospective study of pregnancies involving hydroxyurea exposure.
Since there…
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Kennedy vaccine advisers 'turned back the clock' on disease prevention, experts say – Reuters
- Kennedy vaccine advisers ‘turned back the clock’ on disease prevention, experts say Reuters
- US panel votes to end recommending hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns BBC
- US vaccine panel upends hepatitis B advice in latest Trump-era shift Dawn
- RFK…
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Highly replicating hepatitis C virus variants emerge in immunosuppressed patients causing severe disease
Hajarizadeh, B., Grebely, J. & Dore, G. J. Epidemiology and natural history of HCV infection. Nat. Rev. Gastroenterol. Hepatol 10, 553–562 (2013).
Manns, M. P. et al. Hepatitis C virus infection. Nat. Rev. Dis. Prim. 3, 17006 (2017).
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