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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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Who's Quoted More In Stories About Women's Issues: Men Or Women?

Girls in India are too often treated like an infectious diseaseâthey're sold into sexual slavery, forced into child labor, and sometimes, killed or abandoned at birth, simply for being female. "

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Alberta Hantavirus Case Confirmed

Health officials are confirming that a resident of a rural community north of Edmonton has been infected with hantavirus.

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Hilary Kramer: Stockpile Vaccines Against Anthrax and Small Pox: Bio-terrorism is a Real Threat

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Chagas Disease: A New Global Pandemic?

Researchers are warning that the little-known Chagas Disease could pose a threat similar to other global pandemics.

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Rise In STIs Poses 'Very Real Danger'

Too many people are putting themselves at risk by having unsafe sex, health experts have warned, as figures were released showing a "disappointing" rise in the number of new cases of sexually-transmitted infections (STIs).

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06/03/12 C-Diff Spreading Source: NBC - NBC 6 News WOWT - Omaha NE More than 300,000 people are hospitalized with C-Diff infections each year, and 14,000 die.
06/03/12 'Treat drug users' to cut Hep C rates Source: Sky News - Australia The number of injecting drugs users with Hepatitis C in Australia could be halved if this group was included in treatment programs, health experts say.
06/03/12 Virus blamed for illness at Turks & Caicos resorts Source: NBC - KPNX TV 12 - Phoenix AZ Authorities in the Turks and Caicos Islands say a highly contagious virus is what sickened tourists at several hotels on the main island of Providenciales.
06/03/12 Child deaths from drowning Source: The Daily Star of Bangladesh A recent UNICEF report, published in this daily, says that more children drown than die of diseases like measles, polio, whooping cough, tetanus, diphtheria and tuberculosis in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand.
06/03/12 State warns about pool illnesses Source: Lander Journal - Lander WY The Wyoming Department of Health is reminding swimmers to avoid catching or spreading recreational water illnesses with many families looking forward to splashing in the waters of Wyoming's pools this summer.

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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