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South Korean MERS Outbreak a ‘Wake-up Call’

By VOA News on Jun 17, 2015   Featured, Health, World  

South Korean MERS Outbreak a ‘Wake-up Call’

The World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday the outbreak of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome in South Korea shows the urgent need for greater international readiness to fight infectious diseases. “This outbreak is a wake-up call and [shows] that in a highly mobile world, all countries should always be prepared for the unanticipated possibility of […]

Second Dallas Nurse Confirmed with Ebola Virus

By Alaska Native News on Oct 15, 2014   Breaking News, Featured, Health, National  

A second nurse has been confirmed to have contracted Ebola connected with the care of Thomas Eric Duncan. Director of the Center for Disease Control Dr Thomas Frieden says that the health worker boarded a commercial airliner from Cleveland to Dallas on Monday just one day before she reported the symptoms of the deadly pathogen. […]

Using a Novel Biological Aging Clock, UCLA Researchers Find that Obesity Accelerates Aging of the Liver

By Kim Irwin | UCLA on Oct 14, 2014   Featured, Health  

Using a recently developed biomarker of aging known as an epigenetic clock, UCLA researchers working closely with a German team of investigators have found for the first time that obesity greatly accelerates aging of the liver. This finding could explain the early onset of many age-related diseases, including liver cancer, in obese subjects Although it […]

Dallas Nurse Identified as First Person in U.S. to Contract Ebola

By Alaska Native News on Oct 13, 2014   Breaking News, Featured, Health  

Protocols are being tightened up concerning the Ebola virus after the first case of Ebola contracted in the United States was uncovered on Sunday. 26-year-old Nina Pham, one of the nurses caring for the Ebola victim, Thomas Eric Duncan, who died last week from the deadly contagion, tested positive for the vvirus, un-nerving neighbors and […]

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