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Springtime Infectious Diseases: From Spring Fever to Lyme Disease

Gideon

Available: 10.1016/s1473-3099(09)70069-6 (9) “ Lyme disease: Transmission “, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Vector-Borne Diseases (DVBD), 2020. Online] (10) S. Monaghan, and P. 486-496, 2014.

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Mosquito-borne Diseases Dengue, Zika, and Chikungunya in the United States

Gideon

Image: Dengue rates in the United States, 1930 to 2020. Is the spread of infectious disease mosquitoes to non-tropical countries a recent phenomenon? How are epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists monitoring and predicting the spread and risk ? Image: West Nile Fever World Outbreak Map, 1955 to 2020.

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Chagas Disease

Gideon

If you have a GIDEON account, click here to explore our Chagas disease outbreak map. An estimated 8 million people are currently infected with the disease(12). Vector-borne disease transmission is exceedingly rare in the United States, with 28 cases documented between 1955 and 2015 (13). 63-68, 2020.

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What journalists should know about the threat of chikungunya 

Association of Health Care Journalists

The numbers though modest compared to dengue and malaria are still striking. There were 18.7 million chikungunya cases in 110 countries during that decade, which resulted in 1.95 million DALYs, $2.8 billion in direct costs and $47.1 billion indirect costs.

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Plague Tales: Yersinia Pestis

Gideon

Between 2019 and 2020 there were at least 5 cases of Plague in China linked to eating marmot meat and a few others of unknown origin. In 2009, University of Chicago scientist Malcolm Casadaban contracted Plague while conducting vaccine research and unfortunately died. Online] [2] World Health Organization, “ Plague ”. 357-370, 2019.

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Yellow Fever: Past and Present

Gideon

[Online] (10)” Yellow Fever Vaccine Recommendations “, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Vector-Borne Diseases (DVBD), 2021. Online] (11) J. Staples, A. Barrett, A. Wilder-Smith and J.