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• SC County Sprays For Mosquitoes But Accidentally Takes Out Millions Of Bees

  

  Enlarge this image Honeybees are vulnerable to the kind of pesticide sprayed in Dorchester County, but hives — at least those maintained by beekeepers — could have been protected, by the timing of the spraying or by physical barriers. They weren't, and millions of bees died. Keith McDuffee/Flickr hide caption toggle caption Keith McDuffee/Flickr Honeybees are vulnerable to the kind of pestic..

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• Big Man With a Big Heart, Travis Rudolph Helps Boy With Autism

  

  Now Playing: 'Life, Animated' Parents Describe How Movies Helped Son with Autism Now Playing: Bracing for Hermine and Taking No Chances Now Playing: Consumer Alert: FDA Bans 19 Chemicals Used to Make Anti-Bacterial Soaps Now Playing: Donald Trump's Relentless Attack Over Hillary Clinton Emails Now Playing: In Harm's Way: School Bus Children Are Being Hit by Cars Because Drivers Ignore the Flashing Red Lights Now Playing: Big Man With a Big Heart, Travis ..

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• CDC granting over $2M for combatting Zika in 5 cities

  

  Mosquitoes are considered one of the most dangerous creatures on the planet because of their ability to spread deadly diseases like malaria, Zika, chikungunya or dengue fever. (PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images). NEWS WIRE SERVICES. Saturday ...

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• This Week in Zika: Clinical and Public Health Updates

  

  This week, there were several new developments in ongoing research on the clinical impacts of Zika virus, efforts to identify the potential spread, as well as tools to eventually prevent or contain it. To aid in this effort in the U.S., the CDC announced an additional $2.4 million in funding to public health departments in five U.S. cities (Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Houston). This will help to fund surveillance efforts to track microcephaly and other adverse health outco..

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• Big drop in chickenpox cases since 2-dose vaccine began - KTVA.com

  

  Chickenpox, which is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, has continued declining in the United States since 2006, when doctors began routinely recommending a second dose of chickenpox (varicella) vaccine, U.S. health officials said Thursday. States reporting vaccination data noted an 85 percent drop in the highly contagious disease between 2005-2006 and 2013-2014, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The fall-off was greatest among kids aged 5 to 14..

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• Mosquitoes Are Deadly, So Why Not Kill Them All?

  

  The death toll from diseases carried by mosquitoes is so huge that scientists are working on a radical idea. Why not eradicate them? Mosquitoes kill more humans than any other animal and were linked to roughly 500,000 deaths in 2015, mostly from malaria. For more than a century, humans have used bed nets, screens and insecticides as weapons, but mosquitoes keep coming back. They are now carrying viruses like Zika and dengue to new...

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