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Influenza H10N7
bird flu, H10N7
Influenza A H10N7 strain does not cause severe disease in birds. It was previously detected in birds ...
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Influenza H7N3
bird flu, H7N3
Both low and highly pathogenic avian influenza A H7N3 are known to affect poultry animals. Human cas ...
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Influenza H7N7
bird flu, H7N7
Both low and highly pathogenic avian influenza A H7N7 are known to affect poultry animals. An outbre ...
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Influenza H7N2
bird flu, H7N2
Both low and highly pathogenic avian influenza A H7N2 are known to affect poultry animals. Human cas ...
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Influenza H5N6
bird flu, H5N6
H5N6 virus mainly affects poultry. Highly pathogenic H5N6 was first detected in China in April 2014. ...
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Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident
On 11 March 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami struck the northeast coast of th ...
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Ukraine Nuclear Power Plants
Ukraine has several nuclear sites Nuclear power plants - Rivne, Khmelnitsky, South Ukraine, a ...
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Respiratory Illnesses
Respiratory illnesses can be caused by many different viruses, including adenovirus, rhinovirus, res ...
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Zika
Zikavirus, ZIKV,
Zika virus (ZIKV) belongs to a group of viruses called "flaviviruses", which includes dengue and Wes ...
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General Articles
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Air Pollution
Air quality
Poor air quality, also known as "haze", "smog" and "air pollution", can negatively impact one's heal ...
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Influenza H7N4
bird flu, H7N4
Avian influenza H7N4 can cause severe disease in birds although it does so infrequently. Outbreaks w ...
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Ebola
EVD, Ebolavirus, Bundibugyo, Tai Forest, Ivory Coast, Sudan, Zaire, Reston
What is Ebola? Ebola is a potentially severe illness, killing an average of half of those it infects ...
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Influenza H10N3
bird flu, H10N3
H10N3 virus mainly affects poultry. H10N3 was first detected in people, in Jiangsu Province, China, ...
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Henipaviruses
Hendra, Nipah, Langya
Henipaviruses are a family of viruses that exist in the environment, and "spill over" to infect peop ...
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Langya virus
Langya, henipavirus
Langya virus (LayV) is zoonotic (spreads from animals) disease, first identified in eastern China in ...
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Hendra virus
Hendra, henipavirus
Hendra virus or HeV infection is a rare zoonotic (spreads from animals) disease that affects humans ...
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Influenza H3N8
bird flu, H3N8
The influenza A(H3N8) strain does not cause severe disease in birds. It has been previously detected ...
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Unknown Cause
undiagnosed
International SOS monitors reports of clusters of illness where a cause is yet to be identified. The ...
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Lassa Fever
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