In 1980, the WHO declared smallpox eradicated. But before they did so, Rahima Banu, a toddler in Bangladesh, was the last smallpox patient.

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Traveling is an exciting experience that allows you to explore new places and make unforgettable memories. However, it is important to take care of your health while on the road. One way to ensure your well-being is by keeping important health documents with you at all times.

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For years, how tuberculosis (TB) came to be in the Americas was somewhat of a mystery. But in the 1990s, an anthropologist named Felipe Cárdenas-Arroyo discovered the bones from a collection of human vertebrae that held an answer to the mystery.

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Although currently faced with much more than just disease, Ukraine is suffering from an HIV epidemic.

But it’s not just HIV that is infecting Ukrainians. With an estimated 240,000 cases of HIV-positive cases since 2021, the country is also battling tuberculosis (TB), having the highest rates of the disease in the world, according to Foreign Policy.

With both of these diseases infecting thousands of Ukrainians, it doesn’t help that they can be simultaneously present in a single patient. One of the leading causes of death for patients suffering from HIV is TB.

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Shigella bacteria cause an infection called shigellosis and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) there are about 450,000 infections each year in the United States alone. In most cases, shigellosis, an inflammatory diarrhea, will clear up on its own without treatment. As XDR Shigella strains continue to grow, doctors are concerned about the future of Shigella infections.

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