United States Health News API

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            "title": "Little-known tick bite disease leaves man hospitalized and nonverbal",
            "description": "According to friends and family, John Reagan, 66, is nonverbal after he was bitten by a tick while walking his dog. Here's what to know about Powassan virus.",
            "content": "A New Hampshire man is battling a serious tick-borne virus that has left him in critical condition.\nAccording to friends and family, John Reagan, 66, is nonverbal after he was bitten by a tick while walking his dog.\nHe was hospitalized in Boston, whe... [3963 chars]",
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            "title": "Tick season is getting worse. Can managing deer help?",
            "description": "Health officials and researchers hope that efforts to control deer populations, which serve as \"party buses\" for mating ticks, can reverse the tide of ticks and the illnesses they cause.",
            "content": "In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Virginia Barbatti moved with her family to Martha's Vineyard full time.\nIt's an idyllic beach island off the coast of Massachusetts, a summer retreat for presidents from Ulysses S. Grant to Barack Obama.\nIn the ... [8636 chars]",
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            "title": "Legionnaires’ disease outbreak in Philadelphia in 1976 was mysterious and deadly - 50 years later, scientists know the cause but outbreaks continue",
            "description": "The source was a newly discovered bacterium called Legionella pneumophila that can thrive in household pipes, whirlpools, cooling units and outdoor fountains.",
            "content": "Soon after Philadelphia hosted America’s bicentennial celebrations in late July 1976, more than 200 attendees of the American Legion Convention at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia fell ill with pneumonia symptoms, including fever, cough a... [5193 chars]",
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