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By Sultan Anshori and Orathai SiringBALI, Indonesia/BANGKOK (Reuters) - A spike in coronavirus infections in Indonesia's holiday island of Bali and Thailand's first locally transmitted case in 100 days have dealt further blows to Southeast Asian hopes of reviving vital tourism industries.Plans to reopen Bali to foreign tourists from September have been postponed indefinitely, while…

THAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING AROUND FOR THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND COMING UP. >> NEW HAMPSHIRE NOW HAS ITS FIRST MOSQUITO BATCH OF THE SEASON WITH WEST NILE VIRUS. DHHS SAYS THE BATCH WAS RECENTLY FOUND IN MANCHESTER. STATE EPIDEMIOLOGIST BENJAMIN CHAN SAYS THE BEST WAY TO AVOID WEST NILE IS TO AVOID MOSQUITO BITES. WEAR INSECT…

If ever a place checked almost every box for conditions that put people at risk of the coronavirus, it is Hialeah.“You would see a house with 11 or 12 people inside,” said Eric Johnson, a firefighter paramedic in Hialeah, Fla. “Many, many, many, many times you’d return to the same place for multiple patients out…

Scientists around the world agree that we are currently facing a climate crisis in which global heating is threatening wildlife and primary resources. This crisis also affects humans by impacting the spread of infectious diseases. In this feature, we look at one such prominent example: the spread of the West Nile virus.Because of the new…

Shutterstock By Jacob Klopfenstein, KSL.com | Updated - Aug. 17, 2020 at 3:59 p.m. | Posted - Aug. 17, 2020 at 9:15 a.m. SALT LAKE CITY — West Nile Virus has been detected in mosquitoes in multiple populations within Salt Lake County, officials said Monday.No human cases of the virus have been confirmed in the…