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Health news • May 07

Eating eggs could cut Alzheimer’s risk by 27%

Eating eggs might do more than just start your day—it could help protect your brain. Researchers found that people 65 and older who eat eggs regularly have...

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Health news • May 07

More than 110 people sick in Princess cruise norovirus outbreak

More than 110 people got sick in a norovirus outbreak on a Princess Cruises ship. Among the 3,116 guests sailing aboard the line's Caribbean Princess vessel...

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Health news • May 07

What Happened on the Hantavirus Cruise, According to a Doctor on Board

A passenger helped manage the outbreak after the ship's doctor on the MV Hondius fell ill.

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Health news • May 07

Met Opera patrons warned of measles exposure after La Bohème matinee

Opera lovers who caught a matinee of La Bohème at the Metropolitan Opera House last month later received emails from the Met Opera letting them know that...

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Health news • May 07

Is hantavirus the next COVID? Is the U.S. response on point? An outbreak update

Public health authorities around the world are working to contain a hantavirus outbreak that started on a cruise ship in early April and has already claimed...

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Health news • May 07

Has hantavirus ever been in the Washington DC area?

The rare rodent-borne illness has sparked questions across the US. Here's how often hantavirus has appeared in Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland.

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Health news • May 07

Hantavirus Response Shows How Trump Cuts Have Compromised U.S. Preparedness

The Trump administration has slashed funding for infectious disease research and has far fewer employees, including disease detectives, to respond to...

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Health news • May 07

Hantavirus: San Antonio infectious disease doctor explains rodent-borne illness, symptoms, spread, prevention

SAN ANTONIO – A hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship has put a rare but deadly virus back in the headlines. While health experts say the risk to most...

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Health news • May 07

Former ‘bad for you’ food can actually lower your Alzheimer’s risk by up to 27%

New research in The Journal of Nutrition suggests that those who routinely eat this food are less likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's than those who...

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Health news • May 07

Cruise ship hantavirus outbreak sparks international effort to track passengers

Health officials in at least a dozen countries are monitoring passengers who dispersed around the world after the hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship...

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Health news • May 07

3 evacuated from hantavirus cruise ship as Spain says it will dock in Canary Islands despite local opposition

Three passengers have been evacuated from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak, as related cases are confirmed in Switzerland and South Africa.

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Health news • May 07

Argentina races to find origins of cruise ship hantavirus outbreak, amid reports some passengers have returned to US

Argentina, where the MV Hondius cruise departed, consistently ranked by WHO as having highest incidence of hantavirus in region.

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Health news • May 07

New Jersey beaver attack: 8-year-old boy injured by animal at park in Mahwah, NJ

An 8-year-old boy was injured Sunday evening after being attacked by a beaver at a park in Mahwah, New Jersey, according to police.

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Health news • May 07

Health officials monitoring potential hantavirus infections in at least 3 states

Residents in at least three states are being monitored for potential hantavirus infections after traveling on a luxury cruise ship that was hit with a...

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Health news • May 07

Hantavirus Patients Land in Amsterdam With More Cruise Ship Evacuations Planned

Infected people aboard the MV Hondius, a Dutch cruise ship with a deadly outbreak of hantavirus, have started to be evacuated from the ship and brought to...

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Health news • May 06

Her Self-Experiment with Drug Detox Almost Broke Her

Against expert advice, people are using new and unpredictable synthetic drugs to experiment on themselves in hopes of becoming free of addiction.

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Health news • May 06

'This is a big outbreak': Nearly 1 in 5 affected by TB at SF school

New data shows 18%, or nearly 1 in 5, of tested students and staff at Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco were diagnosed with either latent or...

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Health news • May 06

Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine more effective than standard shot in late-stage trial

Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine gave more protection against illness than the standard flu shot in a phase 3 clinical trial, according to published results.

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Health news • May 06

Hantavirus Case in Switzerland Spurs Race to Trace Contacts

Swiss officials are rushing to trace the contacts of a man who has been hospitalized in Zurich with a strain of the hantavirus that is capable of...

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Health news • May 06

8-Year-Old Boy Hospitalized After Being Attacked by Rabid Beaver at New Jersey Lake

An 8-year-old boy has reportedly been hospitalized after he was attacked by a potentially rabid beaver at Lake Henry in Mahwah, New Jersey.

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