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Azeem Rafiq calls for Yorkshire racism hearings to be held in public

Rafiq feels public hearings would help bring closure after he first made allegations of racism more than two years ago

The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2022

Polio vaccination rates in some areas of the US hover dangerously close to the threshold required for herd immunity – here's why that matters

Given recent headlines, you may be wondering why polio is even an issue in 2022. For more than 60 years, vaccines against the poliovirus have protected virtually everyone in the United States from the disease. Due to an enormously successful polio vaccination campaign beginning in the 1950s when the first…

The Conversation · Sep 21, 2022

How the climate crisis is fueling the spread of a brain-eating amoeba

Naegleria fowleri grows in warm fresh water, making it well-suited to proliferate as temperatures rise in the US

The Guardian - US · Sep 21, 2022

How Biden's declaring the pandemic 'over' complicates efforts to fight COVID

Biden's comments — made as officials try to convince Americans to get a new booster shot and the White House seeks $22 billion in new COVID funding — were "unfortunate," several epidemiologists said.

WEKU · Sep 20, 2022

Florida infant confirmed to have monkeypox, the youngest in the state with the virus

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention released details Monday on how a Florida infant contracted monkeypox and struggled with full body lesions.

Tribune News Service · Sep 20, 2022

Amid 'out of control' STD epidemic, calls for changes

Sharply rising cases of some sexually transmitted diseases are prompting U.S. health officials to call for new prevention and treatment efforts

The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2022

With polio’s return, here’s what back-to-schoolers need to know

Before polio vaccines became available in the 1950s, people wary of the disabling disease were afraid to allow their children outside, let alone go to school. As polio appears again decades after it was considered eliminated in the U.S., Americans unfamiliar with the dreaded disease need a primer on protecting…

Tribune News Service · Sep 19, 2022

Doctors fire back after Biden declares Covid ‘over’: ‘A weekly 9/11’

’Mark my words—this winter, Covid will be roaring back’

The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2022

Commentary: What’s at fault for lower life expectancy? Health care has less influence than individual choices.

Progressives like to point out that Americans pay more for health care yet have poorer outcomes than people in countries of similar wealth.

Chicago Tribune · Sep 19, 2022

What is EV-D68, the respiratory virus that can cause paralysis in children?

‘EV-D68 has been associated with acute flaccid myelitis, a rare neurologic complication involving limb weakness,’ CDC says

The Independent UK · Sep 16, 2022