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An innovative "hybrid" surveillance strategy—highlighted by close cooperation between public health officials and clinical partners—helped Virginia mount an efficient and effective response to the ongoing outbreak of fungal meningitis and other infections, according to a report in the July/August issue of Journal of Public Health Management and Practice . http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-virginia-hybrid-surveillance-strategy-aided.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 30 May 2013 15:23:36 EST news289146210 A detailed look at two cases of a deadly new respiratory virus called MERS suggests people who have the disease should be isolated for at least 12 days to avoid spreading it, doctors reported Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-mers-longer-quarantines.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 29 May 2013 12:20:01 EST news289048117 World Health Organization officials said Thursday that their probe into the deadly new coronavirus that has now claimed 22 lives is being delayed because of a dispute over the ownership rights to a sample—a claim disputed by the researcher at the center of the issue. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-deaths-worldwide-coronavirus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 23 May 2013 12:16:03 EST news288530157 (HealthDay)—Insulin injections have been associated with non-tuberculous mycobacteria cutaneous infections and cutaneous mycobacteria may have a prolonged incubation period, according to a literature review and case study published in the April issue of Clinical Diabetes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-insulin-contribute-infection.html Diabetes Sun, 05 May 2013 16:43:48 EST news286991019 Four of the Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway) have detected more hepatitis A cases than usual among people who did not travel abroad during the incubation period before they became ill (domestic infection). Frozen berries may be the source of infection. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-common-source-hepatitis-nordic-countries.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:16:51 EST news285405403 Identifying areas of malarial infection risk depends more on daily temperature variation than on the average monthly temperatures, according to a team of researchers, who believe that their results may also apply to environmentally temperature-dependent organisms other than the malaria parasite. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-approach-malaria.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:50:02 EST news280513767 In a study published today in the Open Access journal PLOS Pathogens, researchers at Emory University have discovered a potentially important mechanism by which the Ebola virus alters and evades the immune response of its infected host. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-ebola-virus-protein-decoy-subvert.html Immunology Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:23:30 EST news274641804 The death toll from a meningitis outbreak linked to tainted drugs rose to 30 as the number of cases climbed to a whopping 419, US health officials said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-meningitis-death-toll.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:20:40 EST news271362028 The death toll in the United States from an unprecedented outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to a contaminated drug has climbed to 23 people, health officials said Saturday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-meningitis-death-toll-cdc.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:23:52 EST news269972622 In a new perspective piece being published Online First tonight in Annals of Internal Medicine, a physician recalls lessons learned from treating patients affected by the 2002 outbreak of Exophiala (Wangiella) dermatitidis meningitis or arthritis related to contaminated, injectable coticosteroids prepared from a compounding pharmacy. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-dont-fungal-meningitis-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:24:21 EST news269799853 At least 19 people have died in a widening fungal meningitis outbreak linked to a contaminated steroid, US health officials said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-meningitis-deaths-climb-outbreak-widens.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 18 Oct 2012 04:32:54 EST news269753566 The death toll from an unprecedented US meningitis outbreak tied to a tainted steroid jumped to 15 after another person died from a fungal form of the disease, health authorities said Saturday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-meningitis-outbreak-death-toll.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 14 Oct 2012 05:55:42 EST news269412935 Thousands of Americans who may have been injected with a tainted steroid will have to wait weeks to see if they have been infected with meningitis as investigators seek answers to a widening outbreak. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-tainted-drug-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 13 Oct 2012 05:30:02 EST news269323703 The number of people believed to have been sickened by a contaminated drug rose to 185 Friday, but US health officials said the death toll from the rare meningitis outbreak held steady at 14. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-tainted-drug-outbreak-cases.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:15:03 EST news269280898 The death toll from a deadly meningitis outbreak in the United States blamed on a tainted drug rose to 14 Thursday as the number of cases jumped to 172 in 11 states, health officials said. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-tainted-drug-death-toll.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:43:26 EST news269192596 At least seven people have died and 91 have fallen ill in the United States in a worsening meningitis outbreak tied to a contaminated drug, updated figures showed Sunday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-dead-meningitis-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 08 Oct 2012 04:35:32 EST news268889724 (AP)—A fifth person has died in a growing outbreak of a rare form of meningitis that has sickened more than two dozen people in five U.S. states. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-rare-meningitis-outbreak-dead-sick.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:29:17 EST news268565346 The death toll from an outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in Quebec City has risen to 12 since late July, health authorities in the Canadian city said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-toll-dead-canada-legionnaire-disease.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:16:40 EST news266602568 Uganda's latest outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus appears to be over, the World Health Organisation said Monday, pointing out that no new cases had been confirmed for the past month. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-uganda-ebola-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:53:57 EST news265888410 A Legionnaire's disease outbreak in Quebec City has killed 10 people since late July, health authorities in the francophone Canadian city said Saturday in an updated toll. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-dead-quebec-legionnaire-disease-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 02 Sep 2012 04:22:19 EST news265778517 Some 10,000 visitors to California's Yosemite National Park could have been exposed to a deadly virus that kills one in three victims and cannot be treated, officials said Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-yosemite-tourists-deadly-virus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 01 Sep 2012 04:50:01 EST news265692447 India accounted for 56 percent of the world's new leprosy infections in 2010 despite declaring itself free of the nerve-destroying disease five years earlier, a report said Saturday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-india-world-leprosy-infections.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 28 Jul 2012 10:59:10 EST news262691941 Building on previous work with the botanical abscisic acida, researchers in the Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory (NIMML) have discovered that abscisic acid has anti-inflammatory effects in the lungs as well as in the gut. The results will be published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-botanical-compound-crucial-influenza.html Medical research Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:18:48 EST news261843492 Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or "mad cow disease") is a fatal disease in cattle that causes portions of the brain to turn sponge-like. This transmissible disease is caused by the propagation of a misfolded form of protein known as a prion, rather than by a bacterium or virus. The average time from infection to signs of illness is about 60 months. Little is known about the pathogenesis of BSE in the early incubation period. Previous research has reported that the autonomic nervous system (ANS) becomes affected by the disease only after the central nervous system (CNS) has been infected. In a new study published online in the August issue of The American Journal of Pathology, researchers found that the ANS can show signs of infection prior to involvement of the CNS. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-mad-cow-disease-cattle-widely.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:00:03 EST news260951632 (AP) -- Quarantines were lifted on two Central California dairies associated with a case of mad cow disease after investigators found no link between the illness and food the diseased bovine might have consumed, federal officials said Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-mad-cow-quarantines-california-dairies.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 18 May 2012 17:22:30 EST news256580522 Twenty million Americans get sick from norovirus each year according to data released last week by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Often called vomiting illness, it can spread rapidly on cruise ships, and in dormitories and hospitals. Recent data from the CDC shows deaths from gastrointestinal infections have more than doubled and have become a particular threat to the elderly. The virus is shed in the stool of the infected individual, has a short incubation period and can spread quickly if proper hand washing and other measures are neglected. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-discovery-insight-viral-stomach-flu.html Medical research Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:01:19 EST news251564460 (AP) -- Four people have died in an outbreak of listeria traced to Colorado cantaloupes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-cdc-dead-cantaloupe-listeria-outbreak.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 20 Sep 2011 04:39:34 EST news235712241 A teenager from Mexico became the first person in the United States to die after being bitten by a vampire bat and infected with rabies, US health authorities said on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-death-vampire.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:20:57 EST news232294844 An E.coli outbreak in Germany that killed more than 50 people this year has ended, health authorities said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-deadly-german-coli-outbreak-authorities.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:41:17 EST news230910060