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Researcher says whooping cough vaccines effective, despite outbreaks
(Medical Xpress)—Despite recent outbreaks of pertussis (whooping cough)—a highly contagious bacterial disease that is preventable by the current pertussis vaccines—Yale researcher Dr. Eugene Shapiro ...
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Nov 29, 2012 |
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Latest West Nile tally: 5,245 cases, 236 deaths
(HealthDay)—The West Nile virus outbreak has now reached 5,245 cases, including 236 deaths, U.S. health officials reported Wednesday.
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Nov 28, 2012 |
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New computer model takes a page from weather forecasting to predict regional peaks in influenza outbreaks
Scientists have developed a system to predict the timing and severity of seasonal influenza outbreaks that could one day help health officials and the general public better prepare for them. The system adapts ...
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Nov 26, 2012 |
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Ebola outbreak in DR Congo has ended, minister reports
The latest outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo has ended after claiming 34 lives, Health Minister Felix Kabange Numbi said Monday.
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Nov 26, 2012 |
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First big dengue fever outbreak in Europe since 1920s, EU reports
Europe is experiencing its first sustained transmission of dengue fever since the 1920s after an outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease in Madeira, Portugal that has infected more than 1,300 people, an EU agency said.
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Nov 21, 2012 |
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Senate questions pharmacy boards after outbreak
(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.
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Nov 19, 2012 |
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No elevated 10-year risk of heart disease for people who become ill during a large E. coli outbreak
According to a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal), people who became ill during the Walkerton, Ontario, Escherichia coli O157:H7outbreak were not at greater risk of heart disease or stroke 10 years l ...
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Nov 19, 2012 |
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Sudan to vaccinate against yellow fever outbreak
(AP)—Sudan has launched a massive vaccination campaign to immunize 2.4 million people against an outbreak of yellow fever in the restive region of Darfur, the U.N. said Monday.
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Nov 19, 2012 |
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FDA: Company shipped tainted peanut butter
(AP)—The Food and Drug Administration says a New Mexico peanut company linked to a recent salmonella outbreak distributed peanut and almond butters even after testing showed the products were contaminated.
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Nov 15, 2012 |
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Scores isolated after new Ebola outbreak in Uganda
(AP)—Scores of Ugandans were isolated on Thursday to prevent the spread of a new outbreak of Ebola which has already killed three people.
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Nov 15, 2012 |
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Canada lab probes pig link to Ebola virus
Could pigs be an unexpected source for transmitting the deadly Ebola virus?
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Nov 15, 2012 |
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An experiment gone horribly awry: US researchers helped to infect Guatemalans with syphilis to study disease
In the late 1940s, U.S. researchers used Guatemalan prisoners, mental patients, and soldiers as laboratory animals, infecting them with syphilis without their knowledge in order to test new treatments for ...
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Nov 15, 2012 |
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Two dead in new outbreak of Ebola in Uganda (Update)
A fresh outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in central Uganda has killed at least two people, the health minister said Thursday.
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Nov 15, 2012 |
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Congress slams US health officials on tainted drugs
US lawmakers slammed federal and state health officials Wednesday for failing to properly police a pharmacy whose tainted drugs caused a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak.
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Nov 15, 2012 |
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New Ebola outbreak in Uganda kills 2
(AP)—Ugandan officials say a new outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever has killed at least two Ugandans in a district near the capital.
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Nov 14, 2012 |
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