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China coronavirus outbreak: Over 9,000 passengers screened in seven Indian airports
It had also been shared on Twitter. The health ministry has instructed airport health organisations at Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Cochin to screen passengers coming from mainland China at these seven global airports. [Full Article...]
Death toll rises to 17 in China's coronavirus outbreak
The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission had reported one death and 59 new infections last Saturday that inflated to 77 new cases on Sunday, bringing the total number of infections in the city to 198, according to the reports. "The whole world is watching", the city's commerce secretary, Edward Yau, told Reuters at the World Economic Forum in Davos. How fast is the virus spreading? Travel i... [Full Article...]
Separate strains cause twist in fight against flu
But what's different this year, and what's still puzzling to doctors, is the kind of influenza more people are getting. Pedati said while some preliminary data from the CDC shows children are more likely to be affected this season, the flu still is capable of making anyone sick. [Full Article...]
Potential Link Between Marijuana and Heart Risks Discovered by Cardiologists
Calling the finding "eye-opening", lead author Dr. Muthiah Vaduganathan from Brigham and Women's Hospital's Heart and Vascular Center in Boston says the review suggests that smoking marijuana carries numerous same cardiovascular health hazards as smoking tobacco. [Full Article...]
NHS England's National Mental Health Director calls for loot box ban
Murdoch's statement, in which she also calls for video game companies to ban loot boxes from games that are sold to children, echoes that of some other governments around the world, some of which are taking an increasingly skeptical position on loot boxes in video games. [Full Article...]
Atlanta airport begins screening for new coronavirus
The handiest nonstop path to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport from China is a Delta Air Lines flight from Shanghai to Atlanta, a route the airline relaunched in 2018. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added Atlanta-Hartsfield International Airport to a growing list of USA airports implementing public health entry screenings as a new coronavirus from China has spread to the U.... [Full Article...]
Rome airport screens for deadly Wuhan virus
Suspected cases have also been reported in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guangxi and Shandong provinces. The patient in Washington arrived in the United States on January 15, before the screening was implemented. India announced Tuesday that it will expand thermal screening of passengers arriving from China , including Hong Kong, to seven airports from the current three. [Full Article...]
China virus cases spike, 17 new infections reported
Some medical workers have also tested positive for the virus, the English-language China Daily newspaper reported. China's National Health Commission said experts have judged the current outbreak to be "preventable and controllable". Videos posted online show people in protective suits checking one-by-one the temperatures of plane passengers arriving in Macao from Wuhan. Numerous initial cases... [Full Article...]