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China lifts travel restrictions despite surge in COVID cases, it will lift its quarantine requirement for inbound travelers starting from 8 January. But it will still demand a negative PCR test result within 48 hours before departure.
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34 international destinations have circulating poliovirus in the recent weeks.
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Last week, the U.S. CDC reported that some travelers returned from Mexico have been infected with multidrug-resistant (MDR) Salmonella Newport.
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What is dengue fever?
Dengue fever is a disease caused by a virus spread through mosquito bites. The disease can take up to 2 weeks to develop with illness generally lasting less than a week.
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A case of polio has been reported in Rockland, New York, on July 21. It is the first case of polio in the US in decades.
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The U.S. government has declared monkeypox a public health emergency on Thursday as cases exceeded 6,600 nationwide.
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The CDC recently issued a health advisory regarding three cases of Whitmore’s disease reported in Kansas, Minnesota and Texas.
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On July 06, the U.S. government issued an alert for travelers regarding the polio outbreak in some countries in Asia and Eastern Europe,
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On the first of July the U.S. Department of Health ordered an additional 2.5 million doses of Bavarian Nordic's JYNNEOS for use in responding to current or future monkeypox outbreaks and as part of U.S. outbrak preparedness.
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The US will no longer require air passengers traveling to the United States to show a negative COVID-19 viral test or documentation of recovery from COVID-19 before they board their flight.
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Some good news for travelers arriving in Europe, travel restrictions ease for top European destinations. However, some countries still have some travel restrictions in place in a bid to control the spread of COVID-19.
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Monkeypox cannot be the new COVID
At a public hearing on Monday, Dr. Rosamund Lewis from the World Health Organization ( WHO) said she did not expect hundreds of cases to be another pandemic.
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Outbreaks of monkeypox in Europe and North America have been growing rapidly in recent weeks and are expected to spread as more and.
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