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You can be going about your day quite normally when one ear suddenly feels as if someone has turned the volume down. Sounds become dull, conversations take more effort, and…

UK travellers visiting warmer climates are increasingly exposed to mosquito-borne infections, and chikungunya is one of the conditions that appears regularly on official travel health alerts. NaTHNaC notes that the virus is…

Most people return from travel with memories and souvenirs, but a growing number come back with something less welcome. UKHSA figures show over 700 travel-associated typhoid and paratyphoid cases were…

Chickenpox is still widely seen as a routine childhood illness, yet NHS guidance shows that complications can and do occur. This difference is one of the reasons many parents and…

HPV is one of the most widespread infections in the UK, and public health data shows that around 80 per cent of sexually active people will come into contact with…

Most people expect chickenpox to be a childhood memory, not something that returns later in life. Yet UK health data shows that around one in four people will go on…