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BALTIMORE — By now, most people have heard of monkeypox and seen images of the skin lesions it causes. But it seems fewer people know how the virus spreads. "I don't feel there is enough information out there," said Rhonda Vanrokel. "I think the focus has been on COVID, and that's understandable, but I think we should also be looking at monkeypox now, too, a little bit more."

The Biden administration declared the ongoing monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency on Thursday, a move that comes amid growing case counts and a groundswell of criticism over the way the administration has handled the outbreak.

MIAMI – The Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County (DOH-Miami-Dade) remains under a mosquito-borne illness advisory following the confirmation of an identified case of dengue in a Miami-Dade resident. This is the second local case of dengue infection in 2022.

NEW YORK, NY—August 2, 2022—Lyme disease has experienced notable growth in the United States over the past 15 years and, as a result, has become an illness of increasing national concern. From 2007 to 2021, private insurance claim lines with Lyme disease diagnoses rose 357 percent in rural areas and 65 percent in urban areas.

NAPA, Calif. - The outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in Napa County that has sickened and hospitalized 12 people in the last month has now caused one death, health officials confirm. It is the first death from the disease in the county in several years. The first cases were reported July 11. 

WASHINGTON, Aug 1 (Reuters) - The polio virus was present in wastewater in a New York City suburb a month before health officials there announced a confirmed case of the disease last month, state health officials said on Monday, urging residents to be sure they have been vaccinated.

The year 2020 has witnessed some of the tough times that the universe has ever seen in hundred years.

One in 12 public hospital beds across Australia are filled by a COVID-19 patient despite fewer people ending up in intensive care than during previous waves of the virus.

Share 30 Share Email Home Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Home Gerontology & Geriatrics JULY 29, 2022 Four in ten nursing homes have a COVID outbreak and the death rate is high. What's going wrong? by Hal Swerissen, The Conversation Credit: Shutterstock About 3% (6,100) of the 200,000 residents in Australia's aged care facilities had COVID, as of July 22, in addition to 3,400 staff.

Boston College’s Global Observatory on Planetary Health is first to reveal town-by-town pollution levels and health impacts, including 2,780 deaths in 2019