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Ag Briefs: Beef cattle disease confirmed in Iowa for the first time
The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship has confirmed a case of Theileriosis, caused by Theileria orientalis ...
Meet the Oropouche virus. It may be visiting your city soon.
A tiny insect called a midge spreads the disease, and the earliest known case dates back to 1955 in a forest worker near a ...
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From fighting disease to protecting the Amazon rainforest, USAID has big impact across the globe - MSN
Disease response, girls’ education and free school lunches in Africa Last year, the U.S. gave the sub-Saharan region more ...
Proof-of-Concept Results Show Jaguar Health’s Crofelemer Reduced Total Parenteral Nutrition in Third Intestinal Failure Orphan Disease Patient
As recently announced, initial proof-of-concept results from this ongoing investigator-initiated trial (IIT) show crofelemer ...
Peter Hotez: Yellow fever has broken out of Brazil. The U.S. isn't prepared.
"Sometimes people ask me, 'Hey, Doc, what scares you more than anything else?' And often they’re surprised when I say yellow ...
Jaguar Health Provides Updates on Orphan Disease Intestinal Failure Development Program for Crofelemer
Enrollment in company’s first-of-its-kind placebo-controlled Phase 2 study to evaluate the efficacy of crofelemer for ...
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Leptospirosis deaths in children in the Amazon: syndemic inequities
We write to highlight an urgent, yet preventable public health tragedy unfolding in the Ecuadorian Amazon. In May, 2025, eight Indigenous Achuar children from Taisha—an Amazonic village from the ...
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Common chemicals in plastic linked to over 350,000 deaths from heart disease - The Washington Post
A set of chemicals found in food packaging, plastics, and lotions and shampoos has been linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths from heart disease, according to a study published Tuesday in the ...