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Springtime Infectious Diseases: From Spring Fever to Lyme Disease

Gideon

Doxycycline, Ceftriaxone, Amoxicillin, and Cefuroxime can be used as a treatment, with dosage, route, and duration varying according to patient age and the nature and severity of the disease. By removing a tick within 24 hours, Lyme disease transmission is greatly decreased. Rarely, other organs may become involved.

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Climate and health: Stories to watch in 2025

Association of Health Care Journalists

While climate coverage often focuses on heat, its health impacts have a broader audience appeal. Climate change affects air pollution, diseases and extreme weather. Medical schools across the United States are increasingly incorporating climate change and health into their curricula.

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What journalists should know about the threat of chikungunya 

Association of Health Care Journalists

But far fewer people are familiar with chikungunya, a tropical disease likely to increase with the continuing effects of climate change. One reason chikungunya gets so little respect is that the size of its potential health and its economic burden have been underestimated. One DALY is the loss of one year of full health.)