Kanawha County health officials are alerting people after a person died from the deadly Hantavirus. Officials with the Kanawha-Charleston Health Department held a press conference Thursday, Sept. 9, after tests confirmed that a Kanawha County resident died from the disease. Read article
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HONOLULU — The Australian tourist who pleaded no contest to third-degree negligent homicide in a Hawaii personal watercraft crash that killed a California teen is expected to be sentenced. Tyson Dagley entered the plea to the misdemeanor charge last month and is to be sentenced Wednesday. He faces up to a year in prison and […]
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STRIKE action is threatening to hit Birmingham Airport after workers rejected an offer of a pay rise. Employees voted against the offer of a 2.5 per cent increase which would have been their first pay rise since 2009. Read article
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(Reuters) – Some 10,000 people who stayed in tent cabins at Yosemite National Park this summer may be at risk for the deadly rodent-borne hantavirus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday. The CDC urged lab testing of patients who exhibit symptoms consistent with the lung disease, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, after […]
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A third visitor to a downtown hotel earlier this summer has died after contracting Legionnaires’ disease, city officials announced Friday. Media in Ireland are reporting that the man was a retired plumber who was in Chicago to celebrate his 40th wedding anniversary when he apparently contracted the disease. Read article
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When two Missouri farmers wound up hospitalized with fever, fatigue, low blood cell counts and elevated liver enzymes in 2009, doctors suspected ticks were to blame. Both men recently had reported tick bites, including a 57-year-old whose wife plucked a single critter off his abdomen with tweezers and a 67-year-old man who figured he was […]
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Minnesota has recorded its second case of a new strain of swine flu, in a man who bought a pig at a live-animal market in Dakota County. But no cases have surfaced at the Minnesota State Fair so far, state officials said Wednesday. Read article
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QUEBEC – The death toll from the outbreak of legionnaires’ disease increased by one to a total of nine in Quebec City on Wednesday, as public-health authorities sought additional help in their inspection of buildings that are suspected of harbouring the deadly Legionnella bacteria. Authorities also reported that the number of people infected with the […]
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KANSAS — Three patients treated at a northwest Kansas hospital in 2010 have tested positive for a strain of hepatitis C “closely related” to a cluster of cases in New Hampshire traced to a traveling hospital technician. Kansas officials notified more than 400 people last month that they may have been exposed to hepatitis C […]
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ATLANTA – Federal health officials are warning that kids with neurologic disorders face a high risk of death if they get the flu. A study by scientists with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at more than 300 influenza-related deaths in children during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. It found 60 percent had an […]
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