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  1. Children exposed to many environmental contaminants

    Children exposed to many environmental contaminants

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    Children across Europe are exposed to a wide range of contaminants in foetal life and childhood but their exposure varies by country and compound, according to a recent study.
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  2. Decrease in new type 2 diabetes cases in Norway

    Decrease in new type 2 diabetes cases in Norway

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    There are fewer new patients with type 2 diabetes. The number of newly diagnosed cases declined from more than 16 000 in 2009 to 11 000 in 2014.
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  3. Meningococcal disease: Short way from harmless bacteria to major epidemics

    Meningococcal disease: Short way from harmless bacteria to major epidemics

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    With just two gene mutations, harmless bacteria transform into a strain that could cause major epidemics in Niger and Nigeria. This is shown by a research study at the Norwegian Institute of Public
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    Figure 1. The map shows how the outbreak, starting in one province in northern Nigeria, spread like an epidemic to nearby provinces and the neighbouring country, Niger over the next four years. Illustration: Brynildsrud et al., 2018
  4. Narcolepsy after swine influenza pandemic

    Narcolepsy after swine influenza pandemic

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    A study confirms that the risk of narcolepsy increased after vaccination with Pandemrix during the influenza pandemic 2009/2010. It also suggests that the narcolepsy risk increased after influenza.
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