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Illinois Subway source of Shigella outbreak: Well over 100 sick

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A Subway sandwich restaurant in Lombard, Illinois that was temporarily closed by health officials a few weeks ago has been the source of a Shigella outbreak which has afflicted at least 116 people. Of...

FDA recommends physicians temporarily not use Rotarix rotavirus vaccine

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In a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) news release yesterday, the agency is recommending that health care provider temporarily suspend the use of the Rotarix vaccine for rotavirus immunization due to...

Three parasitic diseases diagnosed using a simple “dipstick” method appears promising

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During the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, scientists from SRI International discussed the development of a simple, inexpensive 3 in 1 test to diagnose three related parasitic...

El Niño blamed for increases of dengue fever in Northern Philippines

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According to Dr. Myrna Cabotaje, Department of Health Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) director, has warned citizens of the northern region about how the mosquito-borne disease, dengue fever has...

TB cases declining in the United States according to CDC: the numbers

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In Friday’s issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly (MMWR), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the 2009 statistics from the National TB Surveillance System. The results were...

South African vet student got West Nile after performing autopsy on horse

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As reported in a Letter to the Editor in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, a veterinary student in South Africa got sickened with West Nile Virus (WNV) last year after doing an autopsy on a 4 month...

Pig vaccine could eliminate the parasite that causes fatal brain disease

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A team of researchers from the University of Melbourne have recently performed a pilot trial on a vaccine that could seriously reduce or eliminate transmission of the parasite that causes neurocyticercosis,...

Interesting numbers that came out of the 2010 National STD Prevention Conference

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I wanted to point out some of the numbers from a couple of presentations from last week’s 2010 National STD Prevention Conference. Both presentations were from researchers from the Centers for Disease...

Zimbabwe experiencing at least three outbreaks at one time

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The nation of Zimbabwe which had experienced a massive cholera outbreak that started in August 2008 is going through two additional infectious disease outbreaks in 2010. Though the cholera epidemic has...

Two new treatment options for head lice

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In recent weeks there has been the release of a new product that suffocates head lice and a study by French and British researchers that show the effectiveness of an oral medication to treat head lice...