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2 days ago · Thanks to vaccines, smallpox has been eradicated, polio is on the brink, and many once-feared diseases can now be easily prevented, including measles, cervical cancer, yellow fever, pneumonia and diarrhoea. With the recent development of vaccines against diseases like malaria, millions of more lives can be saved.
3 days ago · Around 730 people died of yellow fever that first summer. This disease, which causes symptoms of fever, headache, muscle pain, nausea, vomiting and fatigue, would plague New York City for...
3 days ago · Answer: There is some experimental evidence that higher temperatures help the body kill bacteria and control virus infections, but the magnitude of the benefit is probably small. Fever is an ...
4 days ago · Uganda. Uganda launched a mass vaccination campaign in April against the mosquito-borne disease, yellow fever. They hoped to reach millions of people but vaccine hesitancy has left hundreds of ...
2 days ago · KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda has rolled out a nationwide yellow fever vaccination campaign to help safeguard its population against the mosquito-borne disease that has long posed a threat. By the end of April, Ugandan authorities had vaccinated 12.2 million of the 14 million people targeted, said Dr. Michael Baganizi, an official in charge ...
3 days ago · Before this, Ugandans usually paid to get the yellow fever shot at private clinics, for the equivalent of $27. Uganda, with 45 million people, is one of 27 countries on the African continent ...
1 day ago · The virus can lead to nephropathia epidemica, known as vole fever, which is in the same group of diseases as the Ebola virus, yellow fever and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. Vole fever, while rare, can be life-threatening. READ MORE: Family who ate bear meat hit with crippling sickness but reason why was worse than imagined
