PANJIM: Goa has witnessed a sudden rise of malaria cases this year, breaking a four-year declining trend, even as Directorate of Health Services stated that there was no reason to panic. When asked to explain the reason for the sudden spurt in malaria cases, Dr Sachin Govekar cited “intermittent rainfall” and the number of migrants coming in from “states where malaria is high.” Read article
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State Department of Health officials are examining what may be the first case of potentially deadly hantavirus found in New York this year, believed to have resulted from a mouse bite in an Adirondack High Peaks lean-to in August. “The department is looking into the issue,” DOH spokesman Jeffrey Hammond said. Read article
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Oct. 13, 2012 (PRWEB) October 13, 2012 — The Texas State Dept. of Health Services (TSDHS) in Austin confirmed this week two Laredo school districts are reporting influenza cases this season, which are running at levels six times higher than in 2011. The state’s acknowledgement is in sharp contrast to a recent report of sparse […]
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. North Carolina health officials say a child has died from an E. coli infection contracted at the Cleveland County Fair. The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced the death Saturday. Fourteen children and six adults who attended the fair have gotten sick with the bacteria. Read article
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An outbreak of the viral infection, mumps, has spread through schools nationwide in Egypt, according to an Egypt Independent report Oct. 8. The number of cases reported as of Monday is 583; this is up from 157 cases reported just one week earlier. Read article
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Zalingei — A number of citizens passed away as a result of an unknown fever in Central Darfur during the past two days. The reports on the exact number of victims are conflicting; eye witnesses say at least 10 people died, while a medical source from Zalingei confirmed the death of two people so far. […]
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Health officials say they have now confirmed more than 90 cases of a rare fungal meningitis that has been linked to a steroid commonly used to ease back pain. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted updated figures to its website Sunday. The death toll stood at 7, the same number as a day […]
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(Reuters) – Ten people have now fallen sick from contaminated beef products from a Canadian plant that sent its meat across Canada and the United States, more than twice the number earlier reported, health officials said on Saturday. The latest cases, linked to one of Canada’s largest-ever meat recalls, include three more illnesses in Alberta, […]
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Two passengers who sat near a man who has Crimean-Congo Viral Haemorrhagic Fever (CCVHF) on a flight to Glasgow are being monitored as a precaution. The 38-year-old man was earlier transferred to hospital in London in a special RAF isolation plane. Read article
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The potential scope of the meningitis outbreak that has killed at least five people widened dramatically Thursday as health officials warned that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of patients who got steroid back injections in 23 states could be at risk. Clinics and medical centers rushed to contact patients who may have received the apparently fungus-contaminated shots. […]
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