Warning signs of teen self harm rise amid online challenges
Parents and teachers face rising teen distress as dangers like the Blue Whale Challenge spread via social media. Experts note middle schoolers' sensitivity and pressure, urging vigilant recognition of warning signs, proactive conversations, and school-based emotional skills training to reduce suicidality.
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Maurice Elias
Rutgers University
Alongi
Flatt
Jason
Stuart Green
New Jersey Coalition For Bullying Awareness and Prevention
Origins of outbreaks rise from crowded cities and animals
Dozens of marabou storks circle Nairobi as Akoko of the International Livestock Research Institute warns that dump sites breed disease. The article links dense slums, livestock, and birds to new pathogens, imagining a scenario where a pig-human influenza spillover spreads globally via flights, with millions killed. It notes real-world precedents like typhoid, Ebola, and Zika spreading from tropical regions to the United States, stressing urbanization and international travel as accelerants.
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International Livestock Research Institute
Nairobi
King’s College London
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Marseilles
North Africa
New York
Beijing
Calcutta
Dubai
Kristen Bernard
University of Wisconsin-Madison
School of Veterinary Medicine
Sao Paulo
Brazil
Mumbai
Mexico City
Zika outbreak unfolds in Miami pregnant mother and responders
Marquette University researchers studied disease spillover while Miami Dade mosquito control led by Chalmers Vasquez battled the Zika threat. Immigrant Flores, pregnant, learned she had Zika as the Miami outbreak spread in 2016 17 with 351 pregnant women showing lab evidence. Mosquito control adapted, switching to naled after resistance to prior insecticide. Flores delivered a healthy baby, Daniella Elizabeth Yac, at seven pounds.
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Flores
Zika
Chalmers Vasquez
Miami-Dade County
Vasquez
Fort Myers
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Daniella Elizabeth Yac
University of Miami
Szapocznik
CDC
Dan Strickman
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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