Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study highlights risk of norovirus from swimming
Simple tips can help swimmers stay safe in various swimming venues.
May 15, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Ugandan official: Typhoid sickens hundreds in capital
An outbreak of typhoid fever has infected hundreds of people in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, and looks likely to spread as the rainy season gets under way, a senior health official said on Wednesday.
Mar 25, 2015
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Australia mulls tougher food screening after China hepatitis scare
Tougher food screening measures could be introduced in Australia with frozen berries from China linked to a growing number of hepatitis A infections, Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce said Wednesday.
Feb 18, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Australians get hepatitis A from Chinese berries
Nine Australians have contracted hepatitis A linked with eating contaminated berries from China, with the importer apologising Tuesday as the food scare spreads.
Feb 17, 2015
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Use sterile or boiled water for nasal washing abroad to avoid amoeba infection
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health has been informed that a woman from Oslo died in December 2014 after returning from Thailand where she had been infected with the Naegleria fowleri amoeba. The source of infection ...
Jan 27, 2015
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Water-borne disease plagues IS-held city in Iraq
When Islamic State group fighters swept into northern Iraq's second city Mosul in a lightning June offensive, their propaganda trumpeted a better life for the people under jihadist rule.
Dec 1, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Legionnaire's disease outbreak in Portugal kills seven
Portuguese health authorities say the death toll from a recent outbreak of Legionnaire's disease near the capital Lisbon has risen to seven, with 311 people infected.
Nov 14, 2014
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Portugal Legionnaire's outbreak 'major public health emergency': WHO (Update)
An outbreak of Legionnaire's disease in Portugal that has killed five people in less than a week constitutes a "major public health emergency", the World Health Organization warned Tuesday.
Nov 11, 2014
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Health
Methods will reverse arsenic danger in Bangladesh water supply
Arsenic poisoning is widespread in Bangladesh, where ground water is contaminated by runoff from the Himalayas. Now researchers have developed two simple and cheap methods that well drillers can use to tap arsenic-safe drinking ...
Oct 13, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Eighth death from Legionnaire's disease in Spain
An eighth person has died from the lung infection Legionnaire's disease in northeastern Spain, where two separate outbreaks have struck this month, officials said Thursday.
Sep 25, 2014
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