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Ebola

Ebola Outbreaks

March 2021 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is requiring airlines to collect contact information for all passengers from Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo amid two separate Ebola outbreaks in the African countries. Link. Sequencing of samples suggests that cases are linked to cases in the area during the 2018–2020 outbreak […]

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Rotavirus

Rotavirus

Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe diarrhoea in children and infants worldwide. Globally, rotavirus kills about  450,000 children under age 5 each year, with most of these deaths occurring in developing countries. link The virus can spread quickly in creches and household, mainly by the fecal-oral route, by toddlers putting their fingers or […]