Post Tagged with: "Disease"

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  Africa’s Concerning Disease Trend

  Negative mood increases societies’ susceptibility to infectious disease.
   
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  Anti-Vaxx Fever

  For the first time, the World Health Organization has listed “vaccine hesitancy” among its annual list of top ten global health threats.
   
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  A Tale of Contagious Complacency

  Measles is making a 20-year comeback.
   
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  The Flu and You

  Social mood and society’s health go hand-in-hand.
   
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  Anxiety in Africa

  Ebola returns.
   
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  The Hidden Factor That Can Predict Heart Disease

  Discover the risk factor that better predicts collective heart disease rates.
   
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  Outbreak on the Island

  The plague is devastating the African island of Madagascar in the worst outbreak in 50 years
   
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  [Mood Riffs] The “Chinese” Flu?

  The recent outbreak of H7N9 bird flu in China is “the largest epidemic wave since 2013,”
   
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  Still Early in a Season of Susceptibility

  We found that major epidemics of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries tended to occur near the end of severe or extended declines in stock market indexes.
   
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  [Mood Riffs] Zika Epidemic: Fast Spread, Slow Response

  One key is to understand the pathogen’s sudden growth, after decades of obscurity.