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Hawaii Investigates Dengue Fever Cases

Health officials in Hawaii are concerned about an outbreak of dengue fever after four cases were confirmed in Oahu. Three members of the same family and their neighbor in Pearl City became infected with the disease, according to Hawaii News Now. Dengue fever is a viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes in tropical and...

9 Dead After IV Infections at 6 Ala. Hospitals

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Nine Alabama hospital patients who were treated with intravenous feeding bags contaminated with bacteria have died and the maker has pulled the product off the market, state health officials said Tuesday. Ten others who got the nutrient treatments that are delivered directly from the plastic bags into...

Horrific US Medical Experiments Come to Light

ATLANTA -- Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into...

Traveler May Have Spread Measles in 5 US Airports

Public health officials are scrambling to reach airline passengers and staff who may have had contact with a woman infected with measles who passed through as many as five U.S. airports last week. The New Mexico woman was on a transatlantic flight from London to Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., on Feb....

Playboy Mansion Party Guests Sickened; 5 Facts About Legionellosis

It's not the disease you'd expect to pick up at the Playboy Mansion. According to the Los Angeles Department of Health, the mysterious illness that sickened at least 170 people who attended a fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion on Feb. 3 is legionellosis. The Health Department has yet to confirm that the Playboy Mansion is...

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JUST CAN'T CUT IT

A Colorado farm that was traced to a listeria outbreak in cantaloupe last year has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

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Emergency Action Plan For Polio: Effort To Eradicate Disease Moves Forward

Partners in the effort to finally rid the world of polio are taking another step today, launching an emergency action plan strategists hope will propel the long overdue program across the finish line.

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Health Officials Testing 35 Babies For TB Exposure

A person with an active case of tuberculosis who visited two Northern California neonatal intensive care units had a valid reason to be there and had not been diagnosed at the time, officials said Wednesday.

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Show Us Your Package, LA!

Would you jump into bed with Los Angeles without protection?

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Bogus Malaria Drugs Flood Asia, Africa

More than a third of the malaria-fighting drugs tested over the past decade in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were either fake or bad quality, seriously undermining efforts to fight the disease, a study said Tuesday.

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05/28/12 Spartanburg blood drive on Wednesday to benefit Aimee... Source: Herald-Journal - Spartanburg SC
A blood drive is planned in Spartanburg on Wednesday to benefit the Georgia woman battling a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection.
The University of South Carolina Upstate is hosting the drive for 24-year-old Aimee Copeland from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Copeland developed necrotizing fasciitis after cutting her leg on May 1 in a fall from a homemade zip line over a west Georgia river.
05/28/12 SF Pools Following New Fecal ... Source: CBS - KELO - Sioux Falls SD But there are new rules in place that could close them for up to 48 hours at a time.
05/28/12 Dog-bite woman has died of rabies Source: Herald and Post - Northampton - Northamtonshire - UK A woman being treated for rabies after being bitten by a dog in south Asia has died.
05/28/12 West Nile virus makes earliest Pa. appearance Source: The Morning Call If you are one of those people who worries that every itchy bug bite could signal the transmission of some exotic and debilitating infection, prepare for an anxious summer.
05/28/12 New ticks spread across Southeast; diseases rise Source: NBC - WXII 12 - Winston-Salem NC In the trees and grasses of the South, there are a growing number of ticks that at best are an itchy nuisance and at worst can carry debilitating diseases.

Background on Infectious diseases

Infectious diseases, also known as transmissible diseases or communicable diseases comprise clinically evident illness (i.e., characteristic medical signs and/or symptoms of disease) resulting from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic biological agents in an individual host organism.

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