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(Reuters) -The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday that a Listeria outbreak linked to deli meats has resulted in 14 new illnesses and five additional deaths. This brings the total to 57 cases, all of which required hospitalization, with eight fatalities overall. The outbreak is now the largest listeriosis incident since …

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By Jeff Mason (Reuters) – The U.S. surgeon general on Wednesday issued a public health advisory about the impact of modern stresses on parents’ mental health, calling on government, businesses and community organizations to increase resources to provide them more support. The advisory issued by Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, who has used the format previously …

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(Corrects spelling of Kamala par 3) (Reuters) – Two members of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign staff had a “verbal and physical altercation” with an Arlington National Cemetery official during a visit by Trump this week, NPR reported on Tuesday. Trump on Monday participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery honoring the …

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(Reuters) – SpaceX on Tuesday said the company is standing down from the Falcon 9 launch of Polaris Dawn scheduled for early Wednesday due to unfavorable weather forecast in splashdown areas off the coast of Florida. (Reporting by Harshita Meenaktshi in Bengaluru; Editing by Tom Hogue)

By Steve Gorman (Reuters) – A New Hampshire resident has died from a rare mosquito-borne brain infection called Eastern equine encephalitis, health officials said on Tuesday, marking the state’s first known human case of the disease in a decade and the fifth this summer in the U.S. The patient, identified only as an adult from …

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