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Planning a winter escape? Experts caution rise of dengue fever in warm climates
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 11, 2024 Source:Planning a winter escape? Experts caution rise of dengue fever in warm climates
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Sunday House Call, #795, June 20, 2021: To-MAY-to and To-MAH-to, Pfizer and Moderna; Basically the same with the same end result: good for your health and efficacious. Mix away and lets get out of this damn pandemic already. #VaccinesWork
Topics today include: Mixing Pfizer and Moderna vaccines is proper, safe, and equally effective in protecting you from severe infection and hospitalization. They are essentially the same vaccine with minor changes to their constituent components akin to the flu, hepatitis, tetanus, MMR and a plethora of other vaccines we use that are produced by different…
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Precautions against mosquito-borne illness should be de rigeur when traveling to endemic disease regions.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 14, 2020 Source:26-year-old Canadian woman dies after catching dengue fever in Jamaica
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Sunday House Call, #560, January 31, 2016: Focus on Zika but ignore Dengue at your peril; classic availability heuristic
Sunday House Call, #560, January 31, 2016: Focus on Zika but ignore Dengue at your peril; classic availability heuristic Today’s op-ed: Dr. Barry Dworkin discusses the degree of concern over the Zika virus compared to dengue fever. Degeneration of the spine, fibromyalgia treatment, and the misconceptions about how certain diseases are spread.