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 ...
Going for Haj or Umrah? Avail travel medicine services
http://www.emirates247.com/news/emirates/going-for-haj-or-umrah-avail-travel-medicine-services-2014-01-26-1.536048
AHS has also announced that the Disease Prevention & Screening Centres (DPSCs) in Abu Dhabi will no longer offer travel health services (including Haj and Umrah vaccinations) as part of a strategic decision to increase the efficiency of the visa ...
Preparing for Haj or Umrah? Click for new travel medicine services
http://www.emirates247.com/news/emirates/preparing-for-haj-or-umrah-click-for-new-travel-medicine-services-2014-01-26-1.536048
AHS has also announced that the Disease Prevention & Screening Centres (DPSCs) in Abu Dhabi will no longer offer travel health services (including Haj and Umrah vaccinations) as part of a strategic decision to increase the efficiency of the visa ...
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 ...
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 ...
More Evidence that Space Travel Is Bad for Immune Systems
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/more-evidence-that-space-travel-is-bad-for-immune-system
For the foreseeable future, humans in space still means human bodies in space. And human bodies are crappy, ungainly skin bags prone to self-destruct mechanisms like cancer, heart disease, and depression. Sci-fi often suggests ways around this, usually ...
Demolition debris a health danger?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/9652124/Demolition-debris-a-health-danger
"Studies on workers exposed to concrete dust have shown that crystalline silica is the problem and that it is associated with a broad array of lung diseases, including silicosis and lung cancer," he said. Demolition of concrete buildings "inevitably ...
Barrington mom battles rare disease
http://www.nwherald.com/2014/01/20/barrington-mom-battles-rare-disease/ayi35bc/
For the first two years after she was diagnosed, Palmer would travel from Barrington to Children's Hospital (now Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital) in Chicago for infusions to treat the disease, as they were one of the few facilities certified ...
