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<p>In Europe and North America, cholera is no longer an urgent health concern, thanks to better monitoring and filtering of the water supply. Despite this, it still has major repercussions for the developing world, and it used to be a gigantic problem around the globe. Cholera probably originated in and is endemic to the Indian subcontinent, spreading ...
Pregnant women may be far more at risk from swine flu than thought, according to a survey published on Friday that was carried out in Australia and New Zealand. An investigation carried out among American women between April and May last year, in the first month of the H1N1 virus' outbreak, suggested pregnant women were four times likelier to develop ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Pregnant women in Australia and New Zealand who had pandemic H1N1 flu were 13 times more likely to become critically ill and be admitted to hospital, researchers said on Friday. The study, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), analyzed data from the middle of the southern hemisphere's 2009 winter and found that 11 percent of mothers ...
