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CDC has not issued a dengue-related Travel Alert for Thailand The Dengue Fever outbreak in Thailand continues to impact 77 provinces and has now been confirmed in 31,708 cases. This National Disease Surveillance ( Report #506) , published by the Thailand Bureau of Epidemiology, reflects a 24 percent increase in just 4 weeks. Dengue viruses are spread by the bite of the "Aedes aegypti" mosquitoes and transmitted to the human body.  Dengue  is not contagious, which means it cannot be passed from one person to another. The incidence of dengue has grown dramatically with 40 percent of the world's population now at risk from dengue, says the CDC. The Thailand Ministry of Public Health launched various  dengue prevention tactics,  but, broadly administering the Dengvaxia vaccine is not included. Thailand is investigating the efficacy of Dengvaxia. This is because the World Health Organisation (WHO) Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization said ‘th...

The General Overseer, Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry, Dr Daniel Olukoya, has filed a libel suit against the Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Mr Omoyele Sowore, demanding N10bn in damages. In the suit filed before the Akwa Ibom State High Court in Uyo, the MFM founder said he was constrained to take legal action against Sowore, his online platform, Sahara Reporters Incorporated and the Incorporated Trustees of Sahara Media Foundation for their alleged failure to desist from publishing false and malicious articles against him and his church, MFM, since 2013. The cleric said despite complaints, Sowore and his Sahara Reporters remained intransigent and continued to publish offending stories about him and his church. Olukoya said he had earlier demanded that Sahara Reporters pull down all the offending stories against him and his church within seven days but Omoyele and his platform refused. He said having failed to take advantage of the seven days he gave them, he had ...

You never realise how tiny this world we live in is until you meet someone in Spain and not only do they know your hometown but they went to school with your auntie Hilda. Or maybe even when you realise that your new colleague is the baby you looked after 28 years ago - I mean, what are the chances? That's exactly what happened to neonatal nurse, Vilma Wong who once treated her co-worker, Dr Brandon Seminatore, 28. Vilma, 54, has been a  NICU nurse  for 32 years and four short years into her career was when she first met Brandon who was born at 29 weeks in April 1990. No one could really blame him for having his favourites in work now, could they? Brandon, who is completing his residency at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in Palo Alto, California, was treated in the hospital's NICU for over a month because he was so premature. Vilma, of  Fremont, California , immediately recognised Brandon's name after the pair began working together earlier this month, but co...