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  • Tips When Traveling With Children..
    Traveling with children is a common practice these days. While the experience can be educational it can be associated with a few hassles. Apart from safety issues with children like accidents, falls, and cuts, kids ..
  • First Aid Kit When Traveling..
    Millions of people travel all over the world each year and while they do take their personal belongings with them, they often forget to take a first aid kit. This is no longer a trivial matter because if you develop ..
  • No More Malaria In Sri Lanka..
    After decades of malaria and loss of numerous lives, Sri Lanka has finally gotten rid of malaria. This news was recently announced by the World Health Organization. Researchers note that the last case of malaria in ..
  • FDA Recommends Blood Screening Across U.S to Count..
    On Friday, FDA took a drastic measure of strongly recommending the blood supply of all 50 U.S. states and territories be examined for any traces of the Zika virus. This step may be costly but it is a reflection of ..
  • Protect yourself with the flu vaccine..
    It’s almost flu season and to protect yourself and your loved ones form the flu, the CDC recommends “everyone 6 months and older should get a flu vaccine every year by the end of October, if possible.” The flu is ..
  • New York Starts War Against The Zika Virus..
    It was only a matter of time before Zika would appear in the USA. Over the past few weeks, new cases of Zika virus have been reported in Florida and now New York has taken a proactive approach to prevent …
  • Travel Warning Issued For Zika..
    One neighborhood in Miami has been confirmed as a source for at least 14 cases of locally transmitted Zika virus. This has promoted federal health officials to issue a travel warning for tourists to keep away from ..
  • Experimental vaccine provides complete protection ..
    Zika virus (ZIKV) is a flavivirus that is responsible for an epidemic in Brazil and the Americas.   ZIKV has been causally linked with fetal microcephaly, other birth defects in humans, and intrauterine growth ..
  • First Death from Zika reported in USA..
    Health officials from Utah have reported that an elderly patient who died at the end of June was related to the Zika Virus, making it the first Zika related death in the US. The Utah resident of Salt Lake County ..
  • Yellow Fever Outbreak May Become a Global Emergenc..
    US researchers warn that the yellow fever outbreak in Angola may become a global emergency because of a shortage in the yellow fever vaccine. This mosquito borne viral illness has already caused deaths in 277 people ..