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Health news • May 09

The surprisingly strong case for feeling great about your coffee habit

Coffee was once treated as a health risk. Newer research links moderate drinking to lower risks for dementia, diabetes, liver disease, and early death.

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Health news • May 09

Scientists discover a hydraulic link between the abdomen and the brain

A recent study published in Nature Neuroscience suggests that the brain is more mechanically connected to the body than previously appreciated.

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Health news • May 09

Hantavirus is that odd infection that can make a simple fever a medical emergency, says Delhi NCR pulmonologist

Hantavirus is the infection nobody talks about until someone gets sick from it. It's rare, which makes people ignore it. It's deadly, which makes people...

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Health news • May 09

Common stroke may actually be caused by widening of brain arteries

The widening of arteries within the brain was associated with both lacunar stroke and cerebral small vessel disease in a new study, casting doubts over...

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Health news • May 09

Why health officials say the hantavirus cruise outbreak is not the next pandemic

Experts say that because this strain of hantavirus typically requires prolonged or intimate contact, it is not as contagious as covid during the pandemic.

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Health news • May 09

2 Hantavirus cruise passengers are Texas residents, health department confirms

Texas health officials say two Houston residents were on the cruise ship linked to a hantavirus outbreak. They have no symptoms and are monitoring daily.

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Health news • May 09

Health Officials Warn Of Potential Measles Exposure At Roslyn Heights Restaurant

A laboratory verified a measles case in a New York City resident, who potentially exposed the highly contagious disease to patrons who visited the 388...

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Health news • May 09

Arizona man who survived hantavirus 24 years ago, but lost mom and sister, says recent outbreak is "hard" to process

Twenty-four years ago, Arizona photojournalist Gilbert Zermeño, who contracted hantavirus after losing both his mother and sister to the illness, says news...

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Health news • May 09

Hantavirus explained: Early symptoms are mild, but organ failure follows fast

As global concern grows over the suspected hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship, doctors are stressing that the infection behaves very...

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Health news • May 09

115 sick in norovirus outbreak on Florida-bound cruise ship, CDC says

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WFLA) — More than 100 people have fallen ill with norovirus on a cruise ship that left Florida last week and is set to return soon,...

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Health news • May 09

Opinion | The hantavirus outbreak underscores the need for mRNA vaccines

This virus won't rock the world like covid-19, but it highlights the risk of not preparing for a pandemic.

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Health news • May 09

Pregnancy Changes Mothers’ Brains. These Recent Discoveries Are Showing Us How

Baby brain” isn't the deficit it's stereotyped to be, research suggests. Neural adaptations during pregnancy can prime soon-to-be-moms to become more...

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Health news • May 08

Norovirus Outbreak Sickens 115 on Cruise Ship

More than 100 people have been sickened in a norovirus outbreak on a cruise ship operated by Princess Cruises, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...

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Health news • May 08

Norovirus outbreak sickens nearly 120 passengers and crew aboard Princess Cruises ship

A norovirus outbreak aboard a Princess Cruises ship this week sickened over 100 passengers and more than a dozen crew members with grueling symptoms like...

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Health news • May 08

Hantavirus cruise LIVE: Cruise passengers monitored in at least 5 US states as American passengers set to receive repatriation flight

Friday, May 8, 2026: The latest news and updates on the hantavirus cluster associated with the MV Hondius. The cruise ship is on course to arrive in Spain...

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Health news • May 08

Highly contagious norovirus spreads on cruise ship, sickening over 100 passengers and crew

Caribbean Princess cruise saw a norovirus outbreak affecting 102 of 3116 passengers and 13 crew members, according to a CDC report released Thursday.

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Health news • May 08

115 sick with norovirus on Princess cruise ship that left Fort Lauderdale, CDC says

More than 100 passengers and crew members became ill with norovirus aboard a Princess cruise ship that left Fort Lauderdale, the Centers for Disease Control...

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Health news • May 08

Andes Virus Outbreak on a Cruise Ship: Current Situation | Hantavirus

CDC is responding to a deadly outbreak of Andes virus, a type of hantavirus, among passengers and crew of a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Health news • May 08

115 people sickened in norovirus outbreak on cruise ship: CDC

More than 100 people have been sickened in a norovirus outbreak on board a Caribbean Princess cruise, according to the Centers for Disease Control and...

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Health news • May 08

NYC confirms sixth measles case, all from international travel

Public health officials are investigating possible exposures after confirming the latest measles case but believe the risk of infection is low.

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