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Recent Examples of murrainOtherwise nature is outraged, floods will again sweep the land and murrains strike our cattle.—Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2016
Doctors first diagnosed a complex viral, bacterial and fungal respiratory tract infection and subsequently the onset of pneumonia in both of his lungs.
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Greg Norman,
Fox News,
4 Mar. 2025
PrEP is underused in racial and ethnic minorities, despite having higher risk of HIV infection.
The answer is critical, especially amid winter respiratory illness season, as the flu, COVID-19 and common colds circulate.
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Eduardo Cuevas,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2025
The county health department notified the public Wednesday about the case, which is still under investigation and involved a domestic shorthair breed who ate food containing raw chicken before succumbing to sudden illness mid-January.
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Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Feb. 2025
The vet said there was no way to splint the malady.
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Charles Hammer,
Kansas City Star,
26 Feb. 2025
But over the centuries, such maladies have not proved fatal for democracy because citizens and leaders have believed that errors can be corrected in the years ahead.
When these germs escape the farm and infect humans, antibiotics are ineffective at treating them, which can make common ailments difficult or even impossible to heal.
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Kenny Torrella,
Vox,
1 Mar. 2025
Musculoskeletal injuries are perhaps the most common ailment experienced by hockey players.
The family, with their lawsuit, seeks an unspecified amount in damages for physical sickness, pain and injuries, including for PTSD and associated symptoms caused by the raid, the complaint shows.
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Julia Marnin,
Sacramento Bee,
26 Feb. 2025
During their sickness, Vanessa and her daughter were in bed together watching a slew of romantic comedies.
To manage emotional contagion effectively, consider implementing the following strategies:
Cultivate emotional awareness.
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Mark Travers,
Forbes,
12 Oct. 2024
In 2021, as the world faced the Covid pandemic, eastern Australia was contending with an additional contagion — a great surplus of mice ravaging crops and communities alike, thanks to heavier-than-normal rains and warmer temperatures that pushed the crisis further and further south.
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Lauren Christensen,
New York Times,
10 Feb. 2025
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