United States Health News API

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            "title": "First West Nile Virus-Positive Mosquitoes Reported In Chicago This Year",
            "description": "No humans have tested positive, per the Chicago Department of Public Health. The best way to prevent the illness is to prevent mosquito bites.",
            "content": "CHICAGO — West Nile virus-positive mosquitoes have been reported in Chicago for the first time this year, the Chicago Department of Public Health announced Friday.\nMosquitos can transmit the potentially serious virus to humans via bites, but no cases... [2524 chars]",
            "url": "https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/12/first-west-nile-virus-positive-mosquitoes-reported-in-chicago-this-year/",
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            "title": "Californian Dies from Rare Disease After 'Trapping, Feeding and Breeding Wild Rats' in an RV",
            "description": "Another person fell ill in the incident, which the city manager said was an \"extreme situation\"",
            "content": "NEED TO KNOW\nA California resident died from leptospirosis after living in an RV infested with wild rats\nThe bacterial disease, spread through infected animals' urine, is very rare in humans but can spread through contact with infected body fluids\nBe... [2795 chars]",
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            "title": "‘They’ll pay anything to feel better’: why pelvic pain is so expensive to treat",
            "description": "Patients with vulvovaginal pain spend thousands as delayed diagnosis and insurance gaps inflate costs",
            "content": "Any time Jennifer Vargas, a 35-year-old sex educator in Bushwick, attempted sex, she felt stabbing pain in her vagina so severe her body ached for hours. Nothing helped. Tight clothing exacerbated the “intense, grating sensation”.\nVargas’s symptoms b... [11516 chars]",
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