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Men’s Health – An Investment in Your Future
By Anthony Barkley, Department Head, Health Promotion and Wellness Department, Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center I’ve always been a believer that maintaining mission readiness includes taking...
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Controlling a Formidable Adversary: Disease-Transmitting Aedes Mosquitoes
By Lt. Cmdr. James Dunford, entomologist, Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center Prevention of mosquito-borne diseases plays an important role in the success of military operations. Re-emerging and...
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Pacific Partnership 2016: The Positive Power of Saying ‘Yes’
By Lt. Jen Knapp, Entomology department head, directorate of public health, Pacific Partnership 2016 Vietnam (July 20, 2016) Hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) sits anchored off the coast of Da Nang,...
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Pacific Partnership: Global Heath Engagement in Action
Pacific Partnership 2016 is in full swing. The following photos give you an insider’s view of how the USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) team provides hands-on medical and surgical care, and participates in...
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NAMRU-6 Studies Fever to Predict Pandemics in Developing Countries
By NAMRU-6 Public Affairs Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease transmitted by female mosquitoes of the species Aedes aegypti. LIMA, Peru – Navy Medicine researchers recently published a study...
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The Mosquito Fighters: A Short History of Mosquitoes in the Navy – Part 2
By André B. Sobocinski, historian, BUMED When you … arrive at Thompson’s Island you will investigate with utmost care the origins, progress and present state of the sickness which prevails on the...
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The Mosquito Fighters: A Short History of Mosquitoes in the Navy – Part 3
By André B. Sobocinski, historian, BUMED “Dryness, coolness, fresh air, sunshine, cleanliness of body, clothes and bedding, good food, pure water, temperance, refreshing sleep, occupation exercise,...
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A Look Inside: Navy Medicine’s Peruvian Research Lab, U.S. Naval Medical...
U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (NAMRU-6) is the U.S. Navy’s first stand-alone research facility in South America, and is one of six overseas research laboratories operated by the U.S....
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By Lt. Cmdr. Michael Prouty, Naval Medical Research Center A growing focus within Navy Medicine is Global Health Engagement (GHE). GHE activities are opportunities for our medical personnel to engage...
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US Navy supports infectious disease prevention in the Republic of the...
A team of US Navy scientists from Navy Environmental and Preventative Medicine Unit Six (NEPMU-6) traveled to Majuro and Ebeye in the Republic of the Marshall Islands in January 2020 to work with...
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