Polio virus found in New York wastewater, but no new cases
The life-threatening disease was detected in samples from Rockland County.
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Monkeypox outbreak: Another pandemic unlikely
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Long Covid: Five post-infection problems you don't hear about
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Winter bugs: Student outbreak of flu-like illnesses, vaccination coverage 'way too low'
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Monkeypox cases linked to adult sauna, fetish festival
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Nation calls 3-week monkeypox quarantine
Belgium has become the first country to announce a compulsory monkeypox quarantine.
Monkeypox: Why we should be worried about global spread
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Is mass death now tolerated in America?
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Victorian man in hospital with monkeypox; another 'probable' case detected in NSW
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Experts 'baffled' by falling rheumatic fever rates in Auckland
Covid-19 restrictions may have achieved what years of Government initiatives could not.
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Life-threatening endometriosis delays, surgery wait times up to three years
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"When we look at systems of all sorts around the world we see inequality for women."
'Women let down by system': ACC pays out $27m to women harmed by health treatment
'There are so many areas that could be improved to better [women's] outcomes," GP says.
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