LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — International health officials are scrambling, without much success, to find meningitis C vaccines as an outbreak of the child-killing disease threatens to balloon into an epidemic.
International aid poured into Myanmar on Friday following weeks of heavy monsoon flooding that aid agencies say is set to extend further across the low-lying southern delta region. “We’re very concerned about secondary flooding that is likely going to happen in the delta region (as more water flows downstream),” said Pierre Peron, spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The World Food Programme, the U.N.
International aid poured into Myanmar on Friday following weeks of heavy monsoon flooding that aid agencies say is set to extend further across the low-lying southern delta region. “We’re very concerned about secondary flooding that is likely going to happen in the delta region (as more water flows downstream),” said Pierre Peron, spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The World Food Programme, the U.N.
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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Children who eat certain types of fish may be less likely to develop nasal allergies, according to a study from Sweden. Researchers studied what children ate at age eight and then monitored whether they developed nasal inflammation due to allergies or colds by age 16. Regular consumption of oily fish like salmon was linked a reduced risk of allergic rhinitis, or inflammation of the
By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Children who eat certain types of fish may be less likely to develop nasal allergies, according to a study from Sweden. Researchers studied what children ate at age eight and then monitored whether they developed nasal inflammation due to allergies or colds by age 16. Regular consumption of oily fish like salmon was linked a reduced risk of allergic rhinitis, or inflammation of the
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California officials said on Thursday that a child camping in Yosemite National Park fell ill with plague and was sent to a hospital. A family from Los Angeles County camped at Yosemite’s Crane Flat Campground in mid-July and visited other places in the Stanislaus National Forest. The Pueblo City-County Health Department has not revealed his or her identity, but said the person may have developed the disease after coming into