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Protect you child from HPV and related cancers
HPV infections cause six types of cancers in both women and men. Most people will be infected with HPV at least once during their lifetime. The incidence is the highest between the ages of 15 and 25. There is no cure for HPV infection, but it can be effectively prevented by vaccination.
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Measles
Measles is highly contagious viral disease that causes a large number of deaths worldwide. The disease is transmitted by infectious droplets that can float in the air for several hours.
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Yellow fever
Yellow fever is a viral infectious disease of the tropical world. It is named after the jaundice that often occurs in this disease.
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Travel clinics of NIJZ
Vaccinations and prescriptions (including malaria prophylaxis) for travellers and other vaccinations (e.g. vaccination against influenza, tick-borne encephalitis, Human papillomavirus, varicella-zoster vaccine etc.).
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Polio (Poliomyelitis)
Polio is a contagious viral disease that affects the nervous system and causes paralysis.
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Two measles cases in May, 11 in total this year
This year, 11 cases of measles have been confirmed in Slovenia, including two cases in May. Both cases involved unvaccinated children or adolescents.
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Nearly 1,300 cases of whooping cough confirmed
This year, 1,287 cases of whooping cough have already been confirmed in Slovenia. Some other European countries are also experiencing larger outbreaks of the disease, with more than 32,000 cases of whooping cough reported in EU countries between January and March 2024, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
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Tularemia (rabbit fever)
It is a zoonosis whose causative agent is transmitted from animals to humans. It is rarely reported in Slovenia: between 2004 and 2013, we received up to four notifications per year, or a ten-year average of 1.3 notifications. The disease is also rare in EU countries, occurring more frequently in (older) men.
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Hepatitis E
Hepatitis E is a viral inflammation of the liver that is very similar to viral hepatitis A. It can occur without obvious signs in the gastrointestinal tract. The disease occurs in the liver and the main symptom is jaundice, which is known as jaundice of the skin and mucous membranes.
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Hand, foot and mouth disease – recommendations for kindergartens and schools
Hand, foot and mouth disease is a common viral illness among children. Adults can also get sick. The disease is usually mild and most cases do not require hospitalisation. Rarely, more severe forms of the disease may occur.
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Dengue
Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral fever. It occurs in tropical and subtropical parts of the world, mainly in urban areas of Africa, Central and South America, Southeast Asia, the eastern Mediterranean and the western Pacific.
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Cat scratch disease – Bartonella henselae
Cat scratch disease is a bacterial infection caused by Bartonella henselae. Cat scratch disease is transmitted by cats that have contracted the bacterium through flea droppings.
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HPV infection, cervical cancer and HPV vaccination
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COVID-19
In China, several cases of pneumonia were detected in December 2019 and infection with a new coronavirus was confirmed. They named it SARS-CoV-2 and the disease caused by the virus COVID-19.
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Shingles or herpes zoster
Shingles, or herpes zoster, is caused by the same virus that most children get when they get chickenpox in childhood. This otherwise harmless virus waits for a second chance, safely hidden in the sensory ganglia of the spinal cord, where it can lie dormant for life. Reawakened, it can cause 10% to 30% of the […]
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Avian influenza A(H5N1)
Avian influenza is cause by highly pathogenic avian influenza virus A(H5N1).
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