Cryptosporidium parvum is a gastrointestinal parasite that can cause moderate to severe diarrhea in children and adults, and deadly opportunistic infection in AIDS patients. Because C. parvum is resistant to chlorine disinfectant ...
Nov 12, 2015
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(HealthDay)—Ten new illnesses in a salmonella outbreak linked to recalled salami sticks bring the total number to 31, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
Nov 16, 2021
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Using targeted immunotherapy, doctors have succeeded in curing a type of autoimmune enteritis caused by a recently discovered genetic mutation. This report comes from researchers at the Department of Biomedicine of the University ...
Nov 28, 2016
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Central African Republic's health minister says at least 16 people have died from cholera and there have been 66 recorded cases since the beginning of August.
Aug 12, 2016
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New culture-independent tests are much more sensitive than traditional diagnostic methods in detecting the cause of infectious diarrhea, a significant problem that leads to nearly 500,000 hospitalizations and more than 5,000 ...
Oct 19, 2017
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A bout of traveler's diarrhea can really put a damper on your vacation.
Jun 15, 2023
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Clostridioides difficile infection causes severe diarrhea and results in the death of nearly 20,000 patients in Europe each year. It is one of the most common hospital-acquired infections. When it relapses, the disease must ...
May 9, 2023
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The Comoros launched a cholera vaccination drive on Thursday, according to health officials, four months after an outbreak that has killed 134 people.
Jun 13, 2024
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A South Carolina daycare has agreed to temporarily close after seven cases of E. coli were traced to the center.
Jun 8, 2015
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The head of the World Health Organization on Thursday called for increased production of cholera vaccines, highlighting what he called a "critical shortage" around the globe.
Aug 15, 2024
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