Sick cities: why urban life is breeding new illness fears
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/feb/24/sick-cities-urban-life-illness-fears
Over the last decades, these fears have flared with the Sars virus, avian flu and swine flu, each outbreak prompting new concerns about our ability to prevent and treat disease, at a time of greatly increased drug resistance. While travel hubs in most ...
Travelling World Cup supporters are warned of Brazillian skin-burrowing larvae ...
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/369940/Travelling-World-Cup-supporters-are-warned-of-Brazillian-skin-burrowing-larvae-on-beaches
A report into World Cup health risks says revellers must beware of horrible diseases in the tropical heat. The creepiest of all is cutaneous larva migrans (CLM), the itchy rash caused by the worms as they wriggle around beneath the skin. The study ...
Measles outbreak sparks fear of resurgent diseases
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/measles-outbreak-sparks-fear-resurgent-diseases/
Recent outbreaks of measles on both the East and West Coasts highlight a larger story about how infectious diseases that had all but disappeared in the U.S. are now reappearing. Why are some of these diseases showing back up? Hari Sreenivasan speaks ...
Rare Cancers Australia report: Survival rates fall behind for patients with ...
http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/rare-cancers-australia-report-survival-rates-fall-behind-for-patients-with-rare-cancers-20140316-34vk1.html
Associate Professor Scott, who is head of ovarian cancer research at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, helped established the ''cartwheel'' website which invites rare cancer patients to provide data about their disease to help research efforts ...
Southeast Asia a hotspot for emerging diseases
http://www.asianpacificpost.com/article/5984-southeast-asia-hotspot-emerging-diseases.html
Now, with unprecedented levels of connection between animals and people through urbanization, and of people with other people through increased air travel, scientists say the threat level for new diseases is high. The current measles outbreak in Canada ...
Road warrior tips to stay healthy while traveling
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-02-28/news/sns-rt-us-travel-health-tips-20140227_1_kit-veteran-travelers-travel-writer
As soon as she knows her destination, Holmes - who's in her 30s - heads first to a travel clinic at a local hospital near her home base in Chicago. These can be found in many cities and dispense any needed vaccinations and medicines to deal with ...
Free travel for Parisians in war on smog
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/free-travel-for-parisians-in-war-on-smog-30094635.html
They can also lead to asthma, allergies and respiratory diseases. Alert levels in Paris are reached when the daily concentration of PM10 in the air surpasses 80 microns per cubic metre of air.The decision to waive public transport fees comes days after ...
Experts: Kidney diseases on the rise
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/mobile/?articleID=2000106827&story_title=experts-kidney-diseases-on-the-rise
Medical experts have raised concern over the increasing cases of kidney related diseases in the country. The experts say this has been as a result of increase in the number of people suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity, which often ...
