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Earthquake paralyzes Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido
An earthquake has paralyzed Hokkaido, Japan’s northern island, killing eight residents. Power is cut to 3 million households. Trains and mobile phone networks are idle. The jolt follows a typhoon over western Japan. Japan mobilized 20,000 rescue workers on Hokkaido on Thursday after being wracked by a magnitude-6.7 earthquake just south of Sapporo, Hokkaido island’s main…
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‘Incurable’ & drug-resistant: Deadly superbug colonizing hospitals across globe
The superbug Staphylcocus epidermidis on an agar plate in Melbourne on September 4, 2018. © William WEST / AFP Doctors are warning of a potentially fatal and “formidable” pathogen which has spread to hospitals across the globe and is resistant to all known antibiotics. A team of researchers from the University of Melbourne in Australia discovered three…
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Syphilis: Rates of the sexually transmitted disease on the rise
Syphilis is a thing of the past? Wrong. The number of syphilis infections worldwide has increased drastically in recent years. 4,309 cases were reported in Germany in 2007, 10 years later, it had reached 7,476. But why? Berlin today, New York or Bangkok tomorrow and a different bedmate at each stop over. And with that,…
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Deadly Indian ‘rat fever’ kills at least 12, with another 54 suspected deaths
Disease spread through water, soil or food containing rodent urine has infected 372 people in southern state of Kerala. “Rat fever” has killed at least 12 people with another 54 suspected fatal cases in the southern Indian state of Kerala since August, after the worst floods in almost a century, authorities said Tuesday. A total of 372…
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Puerto Rico governor raises Hurricane Maria death toll from 64 to 2,975
In this Oct. 5, 2017 file photo, a Puerto Rican national flag is mounted on debris of a damaged home in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in the seaside slum La Perla, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa) Puerto Rico’s governor on Tuesday raised the official death toll from Hurricane Maria from 64 to…
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Hawaii Devastated by Flooding as Lane Rainfall Nears U.S. Record
Although Hawaii avoided a direct hit by Hurricane Lane, which weakened to a tropical storm over the weekend, areas of the Big Island were inundated with waist-deep water and flash flooding. Mountain View, located on the east side of the island, received a preliminary total of 51.53 inches of rain from Aug. 22-26—the third highest storm total rainfall from…
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Papua New Guinea volcano: ‘Unusual’ Ring of Fire ERUPTION ‘blocks the sun’ amid mass panic
Papua New Guinea is on high alert after the Maman Island volcano erupted yesterday, forcing 2,000 villagers to evacuate, as concerns grow over the volatile site along the Pacific Ring of Fire. Papua New Guinea has deployed armed forces to help emergency evacuations, after the Maman Island volcano erupted on Saturday. The massive eruption sent a plume…
