All posts tagged "Outbreak"
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1.1KHealth NewsTourists Reportedly Contracted Hepatitis A In San Diego
San Diego County’s hepatitis A outbreak may just be on the brink of spreading elsewhere. Two tourists who visited San Diego for...
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1.1KHealth NewsRare But Deadly Marburg Virus Outbreak Kills Three In Africa
Three patients in Kenya and Uganda have died from the Marburg virus, an extremely rare and fatal disease, the World Health Organization...
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1.8KHealth NewsExperts Considering A Third Vaccination To Stem Mumps Outbreak
Mumps has been proliferating in the United States this year, with over 4,600 cases reported to date. As a response, experts voted...
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1.0KHealth News‘Danger Zone’ Map Says South America Has Most Potential For Health Threats
According to “danger maps,” South America poses many potential threats for word health, as it is a center of would-be viruses. The...
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1.6KHealth NewsPet Rats Might Have Caused Outbreak
The recent Seoul virus outbreaks in Illinois and Wisconsin have been traced back to pet rats. The US Centers for Disease Control...
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1.5KHealth News190,000 Ducks Culled In The Netherlands Due To Bird Flu
Some 190,000 ducks have been culled in the Netherlands as part of efforts to stop the spread of bird flu in northern...
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1.4KHealth NewsArkansas Investigates 400 Mumps Cases, Advises Vaccination
Health officials in Arkansas are looking into a possible outbreak of mumps as cases in schools continue to rise. Over 30 schools...
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2.0KAfrica NewsMassive Yellow Fever Vaccine Drive Launched In Africa To Stop Outbreak
An emergency vaccination drive was set in motion this week in Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo to curb an outbreak...
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1.7KHealth NewsAnthrax Outbreak In Siberia Due To Melting Permafrost Kills One Child, Infects Others
An outbreak of anthrax in Siberia, which has reportedly been caused by a decades-old reindeer carcass unearthed during a heat wave, has...
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1.7KHealth NewsGay And Bisexual Men More Susceptible To Meningitis, Health Officials Unsure Why
An outbreak of meningitis has hit Los Angeles County in the past two months, with a disproportionate number of them gay men,...
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3.2KHealth NewsChief Health Inspector Dines At Reopened Boston Chipotle Closed By Norovirus
Chipotle Mexican Grill has announced that its Cleveland Circle location in Boston, which was recently shut down after a norovirus outbreak sickened 136...
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2.1KHealth NewsMore Than Half Of The U.S. Is Not Prepared For An Outbreak
In a new study by researchers from Trust for America’s Health (TFAH), which annually measures the preparedness for each state in the...
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2.5KFood NewsFood Poisoning Worries Provide Buying Opportunity For Chipotle Stock
Chipotle has been in trouble recently after the CDC reported more cases of E. coli infections linked to the chain’s restaurants. The...
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1.6KHealth NewsPhilippines MERS: Second Case Confirmed By DOH
The second case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has been confirmed in the Philippines after a 36-year-old foreigner arrived in the...
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2.9KAfrica NewsMeningitis Outbreak In Niger Kills More Than 400 People
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday that a meningitis outbreak with what the organization referred to as “unprecedented features” is...
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1.8KHealth NewsBird Flu Outbreak In Iowa
According to a report in the Iowa Farmer Today, officials in Iowa have confirmed the presence of the avian influenza and the news has both state...
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1.9KHealth News8 Hospitalized And 3 Dead In Wake Of Blue Bell Outbreak
The CDC posted an article following the April third news that Blue Bell Creameries had voluntarily suspended operations at their Oklahoma production facility. The first...
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2.0KHealth NewsCDC: Drug-Resistant Bacteria Outbreak Spreading In The U.S.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning the public that the drug-resistant bacteria strain formally known as Shigella sonnei...
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1.5KHealth NewsDallas Ebola Patient Critically Ill
The condition of the first man diagnosed with the deadly Ebola virus in the United States has become critical, the hospital said...
