Bugs will travel: Public health watches foreign outbreaks because diseases move
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/the-canadian-press/140109/bugs-will-travel-public-health-watches-foreign-outbreaks-bec
If you ever wonder why public health officials worry about far-flung diseases ? the latest bird flu, the new MERS coronavirus ? the incidents above pretty much explain it. Bugs travel. Or as public health folks like to put it, infectious diseases ...
Cases of mosquito-borne disease increase in Caribbean
http://www.travelweekly.com/Caribbean-Travel/Cases-of-mosquito-borne-disease-increase-in-Caribbean/
The Centers for Disease Control updated its travel advisory for the Caribbean due to an increase in a mosquito-borne disease on some islands. CDC said that the following islands have cases of chikungunya virus, carried by the aedes aegypti mosquito ...
Beware of new mosquito disease when traveling
http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/blogs/daily-dose/2013/12/23/traveling-caribbean-this-winter-beware-new-mosquito-disease/K6CbWHZ0zi98eiEzCNrtjI/blog.html
Last week, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travel advisory to tourists planning to travel to the Caribbean island of St. Martin for the holidays. There have been 10 confirmed cases on the French side of the island of ...
Travel plan ray of light as illness takes its toll
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/1996470/travel-plan-ray-of-light-as-illness-takes-its-toll/
Scott Mayer's wife and youngest son are both fighting terminal diseases. Five years ago, Daniel, now aged eight, was diagnosed with a rare and incurable genetic condition called Ataxia telangiectasia (AT). It progressively destroys part of the motor ...
Saskatchewan health issues public advisory due to measles
http://www.examiner.com/article/saskatchewan-health-issues-public-advisory-due-to-measles
?The risk of exposure to highly contagious diseases can be particularly high during busy travel seasons, for people traveling within Canada as well as to and from countries experiencing measles outbreaks.? It is reported that the infected child is ...
Caribbean officials warn of virus outbreak
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20140118/NEWS02/140119040/Caribbean-officials-warn-of-virus-outbreak
If a person infected with chikungunya travels back from the Caribbean and is bitten by another mosquito, there's a possibility the virus could spread further into new areas, said Roger Nasci, chief of the CDC's arboviral diseases research branch.
Saudi healthcare booms as state scrambles to close welfare gap
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/19/saudi-healthcare-idUSL5N0KQ0F220140119
High incidence of lifestyle-related diseases. * Government under ... Many areas of Saudi consumption, including the retail industry, housing and travel, have ballooned in the past decade because of oil-fuelled growth in national income. But healthcare ...
A world without antibiotics? The risk is real, experts say
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-01-world-antibiotics-real-experts.html
Humans face the very real risk of a future without antibiotics, a world of plummeting life expectancy where people die from diseases easily treatable today, scientists say. Experts tracking the rise of drug resistance say years of health gains could be ...
