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China's deadly outbreak of H7N9 bird flu has spread to the central province of Hunan, local health authorities said Saturday, the third announcement in three days of a case in a new location. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-h7n9-bird-flu-central-china.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 27 Apr 2013 11:34:40 EST news286281269 China's deadly outbreak of H7N9 bird flu has spread to a province in the country's south, the government said Friday, marking the second announcement in two days of a case in a new location. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-h7n9-bird-flu-southern-china.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:30:02 EST news286182625 China confirmed three more cases of bird flu on Sunday, as authorities sought to curb a deadly outbreak by banning live poultry sales and disinfecting schools. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-china-boosts-bird-flu-response.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 07 Apr 2013 11:41:40 EST news284553692 Health officials say they still don't understand how a lesser-known bird flu virus was able to kill two men and seriously sicken a woman in China, but that it's unlikely that it can spread easily among humans. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-china-h7n9-flu-strain.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 02 Apr 2013 05:00:01 EST news284096969 (AP)—A government watchdog group is calling on the Food and Drug Administration to re-inspect more than a dozen specialty pharmacies with prior records of violations, in light of a recent deadly outbreak tied to compounded drugs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-consumer-watchdog-fda-revisit-compounders.html Medications Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:55:28 EST news273412521 (AP)—A Senate committee investigating a deadly outbreak of meningitis wants to know how regulators in all 50 states oversee specialty pharmacies like the one that triggered the illness. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-senate-pharmacy-boards-outbreak.html Health Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:06:04 EST news272567153 (AP)—Massachusetts state officials investigating a pharmacy linked to a deadly outbreak of meningitis said Tuesday they found shoddy sterilization practices and unclean conditions there, including debris-covered floor mats and standing water from a leaking boiler. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-state-visible-fungus-meningitis-linked-firm.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 23 Oct 2012 16:50:02 EST news270229115 (AP)—A federal inspector found two strains of salmonella and unclean conditions at an Indiana cantaloupe farm's fruit-packing plant during visits following a deadly outbreak linked to its melons. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-fda-farm-tied-salmonella-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:34:22 EST news268486455 (AP)—The Food and Drug Administration says salmonella found at a cantaloupe farm in southwestern Indiana matches the "DNA fingerprint" of the salmonella responsible for a deadly outbreak that sickened people in 21 states. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-salmonella-ind-farm-outbreak-strain.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:30:16 EST news265397411 For six months last year, a deadly outbreak of antibiotic-resistant bacteria kept infection-control specialists at the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Clinical Center in a state of high alert. A New York City patient carrying a multi-drug resistant strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae, a microbe frequently associated with hospital-borne infections, introduced the dangerous bacteria into the 243-bed research hospital while participating in a clinical study in the summer of 2011. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-genome-sequencing-quell-bacterial-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:27:29 EST news264864440 A team led by University of Maryland School of Medicine Institute for Genome Sciences researchers has unraveled the genomic code of the E. coli bacterium that caused the ongoing deadly outbreak in Germany that began in May 2011. To date, 53 people have died in the outbreak that has sickened thousand in Germany, Sweden and the U.S. The paper, published July 27 in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), describes how researchers around the globe worked together to use cutting edge technology to sequence and analyze the genomics of E. coli samples from the outbreak as well as closely related strains in a matter of days. They combined those findings with their knowledge of the biology and evolution of the bacteria to learn more about the outbreak. The analysis occurred rapidly enough to inform the physicians treating people who were infected, and assisted epidemiologists as they raced to trace the source of the pathogen. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-code-german-coli-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:00:10 EST news231001256 (AP) -- A 78-year-old French woman died early Saturday morning from complications of E. coli infection but a doctor said she was not suffering from the strain that has infected many other people in France and Germany. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-french-woman-dies-coli.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:25:45 EST news228821125