US firm found mold long before shipping tainted drugs
A pharmacy tied to a meningitis outbreak repeatedly found bacteria and mold in its facility long before shipping tainted drugs to patients, US officials said Friday as the death toll rose to 25.
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Oct 27, 2012 |
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Scientists reveal how deadly Marburg virus silences immune system
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have determined the structure of a critical protein from the Marburg virus, a close cousin of Ebola virus. These viruses cause similar diseases and are some of ...
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Sep 13, 2012 |
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Genome sequencing helps quell bacterial outbreak in Clinical Center
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 ...
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Aug 22, 2012 |
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Researchers crack code of German E. Coli outbreak
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 ...
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Jul 27, 2011 |
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Anxious British parents queue for vaccines as measles rages
Fears about the purported side effects once sent British parents running from vaccinations against measles. But now an outbreak of the potentially deadly disease in one city has brought them back in droves.
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Apr 28, 2013 |
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H7N9 bird flu spreads to central China's Hunan
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.
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Apr 27, 2013 |
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H7N9 bird flu spreads to southern China
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.
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Apr 26, 2013 |
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China boosts bird flu response as cases rise
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.
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Apr 07, 2013 |
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Questions in China on how H7N9 flu strain killed 2
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 hum ...
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Apr 02, 2013 |
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Did wild birds cause the 2010 deadly West Nile virus outbreak in Greece?
In 2010, 35 people in Greece died from a West Nile virus (WNV) outbreak, with a further 262 laboratory-confirmed human cases. A new article published in BioMedCentral's open access journal Virology Journal examines whethe ...
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Nov 11, 2012 |
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US firm loses license as tainted drug toll rises to 24
US officials revoked the license Wednesday of a Massachusetts pharmacy cited for significant sanitary violations as the toll from a meningitis outbreak tied to its tainted drugs rose to 24.
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Oct 25, 2012 |
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Massachusetts: Fungus at meningitis-linked firm
(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 ...
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Oct 23, 2012 |
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Long wait for answers in US tainted drug outbreak
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.
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Oct 13, 2012 |
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Animals suspected in spread of new virus (Update)
Britain's Health Protection Agency has published an early genetic sequence of the new respiratory virus related to SARS that shows it is most closely linked to bat viruses, and scientists say camels, sheep or goats might ...
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Sep 28, 2012 |
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French woman dies of E. coli
(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.
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