Doctors walkout as contract row goes on

Brandishing placards saying “Protect our doctors, protect our NHS” junior doctors were joined by supporters and union representatives from 8am today.

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Aaron Rodgers won’t play in Pro Bowl

No specifics about the injury were provided.

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156K chickens added to list of poultry being euthanized

Billions were lost in the American poultry industry previous year after a strain of the bird flu killed up to 48 million turkeys and chickens.

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Three things to know about Zika virus

The viral disease can be transmitted from person to person by the aedes aegypti mosquito, which is a scenario that could easily be repeated with Zika virus.

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Public Health Physicians express concerns over outbreak of Lassa fever

The Federal government says 72 people have died since August, in the Lassa fever outbreak which Nigeria is battling with and 212 are suffering from the disease.

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Jeremy Hunt urges junior doctors to negotiate after ‘unnecessary’ strike

NHS England have estimated around 10,000 junior doctors had reported for duty out of 26,000 scheduled to work during the day, causing thousands of routine operations to be cancelled, and

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Police investigate threats against schools in four states

Almost 30 schools in New Jersey received bomb and mass-shooting threats Tuesday, along with schools in at least six other states, prompting evacuations and lockdowns across the country.

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156K chickens added to list of birds being euthanized

North American viruses have typically posed less of a threat to humans than viruses from the Asian Avian H5N1 lineage, said Carol Cardona, an avian flu expert at the University

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Frigid air slows efforts to euthanize turkeys in Indiana

Turkeys tested positive for bird flu at nine more IN farms near the location where authorities first confirmed a strain different from the one that ravaged the USA poultry industry

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New Ebola case emerges in Sierra Leone

“After WHO declared West Africa free from Ebola, our hearts are so saddened because it has come back, as if it is going to jeopardize the business in the country”,

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Man dies after taking part in French drug trial

The man who was left brain-dead after a botched drug test in Rennes in northwest France died on Sunday, the regional hospital center CHR announced Sunday afternoon.

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Baby with microcephaly had Zika infection

In Brazil, most of the mothers who had babies with the condition – called microcephaly – were apparently infected during the first trimester, but there is some evidence the birth

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