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Alex Trebek hopes to mark 2 years of cancer survival in 2021

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Alex Trebek says he is responding exceptionally well to pancreatic cancer treatment and hopes to mark his two-year survival next February. Your doctor has said you have that milestone, the “Danger!” The host said, “So I hope I’m close because he said I’ll be close.” And …

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First COVID-19, now mosquitoes: booster for insect-borne diseases

Sophia Garabedian had been dealing with a persistent fever and a painful headache when her parents found her numb in her bed one morning last fall. Doctors finally diagnosed Sudbury, Massachusetts, 5, a resident with eastern equine encephalitis, a rare but severe mosquito-borne virus that causes brain inflammation. Garabedian survived …

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