Sickness

  • NewsAOL

    Jet2 holiday sickness fraud caught out by CCTV

    A cheating couple, with 11 children, who tried to claim £20,000 compensation for 'falling sick' on holiday in Turkey were exposed as liars - after one was filmed dancing by the poolside. The couple were convicted of conspiracy to commit

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  • NewsYahoo Life UK

    Everything you need to know about winter vomiting bug shigellosis

    From the symptoms to look out for to how the spread of infection can be prevented.

  • HealthAOL

    Norovirus: Causes, symptoms and what you can do

    The norovirus (aka winter vomiting bug) is the most-common stomach bug in the UK, usually making itself apparent with very unpleasant vomiting and diarrhoea which often begin suddenly. As well as the fast onset, the illness can also clear up

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  • HealthAOL

    Work could kill you - or at least make you very sick

    If you've ever suspected that work wasn't good for you, then a new study reveals you were right all along. The researchers discovered that two thirds of people are working in offices, factories and warehouses which are gross enough to

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  • NewsAOL

    70 British holidaymakers get sickness bug in Majorca and Menorca

    Seventy British holidaymakers have fallen ill at holiday resorts in Menorca and Majorca in Spain. At least 50 people are believed to have fallen ill at the Club Mac Alcudia inclusive hotel in Majorca, while on the neighbouring island of Menorca,

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  • LifestyleAOL

    Teen traumatised after falling ill on "holiday from hell"

    A teenager's recovery from post-traumatic stress syndrome after a holiday from hell has been hampered by the long legal battle against a travel firm. The Sunday Sun reports that Sophie Hopper launched action against Thomas Cook 18

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  • NewsAOL

    New crackdown on sickness benefits

    Sickness benefit will be stripped from claimants who refuse to get treatment for their problems under a crackdown to be tested in a £25 million Government trial. Ministers want to extend the concept of "conditionality" used to force