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What is West Nile virus and should travellers in Europe be worried about recent outbreaks?

What is West Nile virus and should travellers in Europe be worried about recent outbreaks?

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Sarah Carter

Cases of a potentially deadly virus have been reported in Spain and Italy. ADVERTISEMENT After dengue fever outbreaks in Europe put travellers ...

COVID can cause new health problems even 3 years after infection, study finds

COVID can cause new health problems even 3 years after infection, study finds

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Sarah Carter

Even as national institutions struggle to coordinate meaningful trials for possible long COVID treatments, researchers continue to tally the damage. New findings ...

New Research Shows H5N1 Bird Flu Can Transmit Through Air

New Research Shows H5N1 Bird Flu Can Transmit Through Air

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Sarah Carter

Researchers at Penn State have demonstrated the airborne transmission of a new H5N1 virus strain in ferrets, marking a potential evolution of ...

Bug sweeping UK as Government issues ‘stay home’ warning

Bug sweeping UK as Government issues ‘stay home’ warning

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Sarah Carter

People are being urged not to go to work or school due to a virus sweeping the UK. The UK Health Security ...

Unusual Giant Virus Discovered in Austria

Unusual Giant Virus Discovered in Austria

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Sarah Carter

University of Vienna researchers have discovered viruses, named Naegleriavirus, that infect the dangerous Naegleria fowleri, offering new insights into virus biology and ...

Government urged to roll out virus jab for babies or face a wave of sick infants in the coming winter

Government urged to roll out virus jab for babies or face a wave of sick infants in the coming winter

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Sarah Carter

By Ethan Ennals 00:42 21 Apr 2024, updated 02:00 21 Apr 2024 Share or comment on this article: NHS emergency departments will ...

Hong Kong issues health alert after man, 37, catches deadly ‘herpes virus B’ from infected MONKEY and fights for his life in hospital

Hong Kong issues health alert after man, 37, catches deadly ‘herpes virus B’ from infected MONKEY and fights for his life in hospital

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Sarah Carter

By Caitlin Tilley, Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com 15:41 05 Apr 2024, updated 16:10 05 Apr 2024 The man caught the virus after ...

Bird flu may have killed THOUSANDS of penguins in Antarctica: Researchers suspect outbreak of deadly H5N1 virus is behind deaths of around 530

Bird flu may have killed THOUSANDS of penguins in Antarctica: Researchers suspect outbreak of deadly H5N1 virus is behind deaths of around 530

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Sarah Carter

Bird flu may have killed thousands of penguins in Antarctica, researchers have said as they probe a suspected outbreak of the deadly ...

DailyMail.com asked seven bird flu experts if the H5N1 case in Texas raises risk of a future pandemic… this is what they said

DailyMail.com asked seven bird flu experts if the H5N1 case in Texas raises risk of a future pandemic… this is what they said

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Sarah Carter

By Luke Andrews Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com 21:13 02 Apr 2024, updated 21:34 02 Apr 2024 News that a Texan had ...

Scientists discover weird virus-like ‘obelisks’ in the human gut and mouth

Scientists discover weird virus-like ‘obelisks’ in the human gut and mouth

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Sarah Carter

We may have an adequate understanding of the human body in that, well, we invented aspirin and sequenced the genome, but researchers ...