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Salmonella-tainted sprouts sicken 21 in US
An outbreak of salmonella poisoning in salad sprouts has sickened 21 people in the United States but is not connected to the German E. coli outbreak, health authorities said Tuesday.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 28, 2011 |
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Scarlet fever pathogen draft genome sequence released
Scarlet fever has revealed unusual high infect rate in Hong Kong this year. So far, 466 children were infected and 2 of them dead. Scarlet fever is caused by Streptococcus pyogenes, a gram-positive pathogen that can be tra ...
Jun 22, 2011 |
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CDC: 1 in 4 high schoolers drink soda every day
A new study shows one in four high school students drink soda every day - a sign fewer teens are downing the sugary drinks.
Jun 16, 2011 |
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US births down for 3rd year; economy may be factor
(AP) -- U.S. births apparently have declined for a third year in a row, probably because of the weak economy.
Jun 15, 2011 |
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Salmonella outbreak tied to chicks, ducklings
(AP) -- Health officials say 39 people have been sickened from a salmonella outbreak spread through handling baby chicks or ducklings.
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Jun 10, 2011 |
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CDC: Food poisoning from salmonella up in US
(AP) -- More Americans got food poisoning last year, with salmonella cases driving the increase, the government reported Tuesday.
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Jun 07, 2011 |
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CDC's 'zombie apocalypse' advice an Internet hit
(AP) -- "Zombie apocalypse." That blog posting headline is all it took for a behind-the-scenes public health doctor to set off an Internet frenzy over tired old advice about keeping water and flashlights ...
May 20, 2011 |
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Swimmer's ear medical costs total $500M a year
(AP) -- The first national estimates of swimmer's ear say it causes about 2.4 million trips to doctors and hospitals in a year.
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May 19, 2011 |
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CDC issues updated bloodstream infection prevention guidelines
New guidelines, released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) outline steps to eliminate bloodstream infections in patients with ...
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Apr 01, 2011 |
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Study confirms benefit of routine, jail-based HIV testing for inmates
Routine, jail-based HIV testing of inmates can successfully identify a substantial proportion of people unknowingly infected with HIV and could play a critical role in preventing the spread of the disease, according to a ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jun 24, 2010 |
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US swine flu deaths rise to 263
(AP) -- Health officials say their count of U.S. swine flu cases has surpassed 40,000, and deaths have risen to 263.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 17, 2009 |
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Deaths linked to swine flu hit 108 worldwide
(AP) -- A fourth person in Arizona and six more in Mexico have died from complications of swine flu - pushing the world's death toll to 108.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 28, 2009 |
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Swine flu fears send CDC.gov traffic soaring
Traffic to the website of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention soared in April as Americans searched the Internet for information about swine flu, research firm comScore said Thursday.
May 14, 2009 |
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CDC: Now fewer US swine flu cases linked to Mexico
(AP) -- A U.S. health official says now only about 10 percent of the Americans who got swine flu had traveled to Mexico and likely picked up the infection there. Most got the bug at home.
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May 07, 2009 |
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