 |  |  |  Infectious Diseases Headlines | | | WASHINGTON (AP) -- Infections may play a bigger role in premature birth than doctors have thought, says a new study that found almost one in seven women in preterm labor harbored bacteria or fungi in their amniotic fluid. PEEBLES, Scotland (AP) -- Robert Mackie trembles with rage when he describes how he and his wife were kept in the dark about his HIV infection -- and how doctors published his medical data in journals years before they gave him the devastating news. ATLANTA (AP) -- The number of measles cases in the U.S. is at its highest level since 1997, and nearly half of those involve children whose parents rejected vaccination, government health officials reported Thursday. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government will allow food producers to start zapping fresh spinach and iceberg lettuce with just enough radiation to kill E. coli and other dangerous germs, a key safety move amid increasing outbreaks from raw produce. WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nationwide salmonella outbreak is finally winding down but federal health officials can't yet say how the few tainted Mexican peppers they've found could explain such widespread illness. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nearly a century after history's most lethal flu faded away, survivors' bloodstreams still carry super-potent protection against the 1918 virus, demonstrating the remarkable durability of the human immune system. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Two intensive-care patients contracted HIV after receiving blood transfusions at public hospitals in the Argentine province of Cordoba, a newspaper reported Friday. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Argentine authorities are exploring a possible link between the deaths of 14 children and an experimental vaccine they were taking in a clinical trial run by GlaxoSmithKline. | News brought to you by: | | | | | | |
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