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Bitten at Home: The Tropical Viruses Now Living in Europe

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In the sum­mer of 2007, a man returned home to the qui­et Ital­ian vil­lage of Cas­tiglione di Cervia after a trip to India. With­in days, he devel­oped high fever, a rash, and such severe joint pain that he could bare­ly walk. The doc­tors who worked on this case were sur­prised, because no one sus­pect­ed chikun­gun­ya. This was a trop­i­cal […]

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Febrile Seizures in Children: Causes, Prevention, and What to Do

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When my daugh­ter first got a febrile seizure, it hap­pened fast, and with­out warn­ing, dur­ing the first win­ter, after COVID restric­tions were lift­ed. Those restric­tions had a sig­nif­i­cant impact — not just on our expo­sure to viral and bac­te­r­i­al pathogens but also on their cir­cu­la­tion in the envi­ron­ment [source]. They large­ly sup­pressed com­mon res­pi­ra­to­ry virus­es like flu and

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