 | | | | Infectious Diseases Headlines | | | GENEVA (AP) -- The U.N. health agency says it is investigating a mystery disease that killed three people in the South African city of Johannesburg.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Federal health officials have issued a public health warning against rabies after an Iraqi puppy with the disease arrived in the United States.
CHICAGO (AP) -- More children have died from flu because they also had staph infections, according to a new government report that urges parents to have their kids get the flu shot.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government is urging consumers to thoroughly cook frozen chicken dinners after 32 people in 12 states were sickened with salmonella poisoning.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Warning: young children should not keep hedgehogs as pets -- or hamsters, baby chicks, lizards and turtles, for that matter -- because of risks for disease.
LOS ANGELES (The New York Times News Service) -- If one child gets the flu this year, a classroom of children is at risk. Parents stay home from work. Emergency rooms become flooded.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If there ever is another anthrax attack, the mailman may deliver your antibiotics.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- Making tests and treatment for malaria free dramatically increases the number of people who seek treatment for the disease that kills 1 million people a year, an international medical aid group said Tuesday.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The government approved a new genetic test for the flu virus Tuesday that will allow labs across the country to identify flu strains within four hours instead of four days.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The West Nile virus season is on track to be the mildest in seven years, with less than a third the number of serious cases as last year's total, U.S. health officials said.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey health officials say two men have died after contracting Legionnaires' disease in a hospital.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Just about everybody needs a flu vaccine -- unless you're an infant or a healthy adult hermit -- but far too few of the Americans who need protection the most get it.
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