United States Health News API

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            "description": "Just a day after the outbreak was announced, cases were confirmed in the capitals of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. There is no approved vaccine for the strain.",
            "content": "The World Health Organization declared late Saturday that the spread of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda was a global health emergency, a day after Africa’s leading public health authority first announced an outbreak in ... [2031 chars]",
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            "description": "Genomic analysis showed the virus found aboard the MV Hondius shows no evidence of new characteristics so far.",
            "content": "France's Pasteur Institute said it has fully sequenced the Andes virus detected in a French passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship and found it matched viruses already known in South America, with no evidence so far of new characteristics that wou... [2139 chars]",
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            "description": "World health officials say the Andes form of hantavirus, which can jump between humans, is not spiraling into a pandemic.",
            "content": "(NewsNation) — A 2023 study suggesting the hantavirus can live for years in semen and be transmitted sexually long after infection is getting attention following the deadly outbreak on the MV Hondius.\nThree passengers on the Dutch‑flagged cruise ship... [1497 chars]",
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