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“No Time for Delay” On Climate and Public Health, Doctors Warn
At meeting in mid-March, doctors, climate scientists, and global health specialists discussed how to tackle the health threats that climate change carries with it.
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Tracking Respiratory Infections in NYC, With or Without Symptoms
There’s a lot we don’t know about respiratory viruses and how they spread. A study currently underway seeks to unravel these mysteries, in part by studying people who are healthy enough to be walking around in Manhattan.
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Keys to Success
Humans hate to catch the flu, But here’s a fact that’s less well-known: Bacteria get infections too As many cultures have now shown.
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Website Maps the Flu, and Predicts Its Progress
Infectious disease experts at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health have launched a website that reports weekly predictions for rates of seasonal influenza in 94 cities in the United States.
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This Week’s Forecast: Sunny with a 40 Percent Chance of Flu
New computer model takes a page from weather forecasting to predict regional peaks in influenza outbreaks.
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