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Disease Defined
Sickness, illness or loss of health.
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Worrisome Infection Eludes a Leading Children Vaccine
Published October 14, 2008, 11:47 am, The Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Serotype 19A has become a common cause of meningitis, pneumonia and other life-threatening conditions in young children.
Worrisome infection eludes a leading children's vaccine
Published October 14, 2008, 10:42 am, Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Published: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 5:24 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 12:13 p.m. A highly drug-resistant germ has become a common cause of meningitis, pneumonia and other life-threatening conditions in young children.
Virulent strain of strep eludes vaccine
Published October 14, 2008, 10:14 am, International Herald Tribune
The germ has become a common cause of meningitis, pneumonia and other life-threatening conditions in young children.
Bullitt whooping cough cases rise to nine
Published October 14, 2008, 8:07 am, Louisville Courier-Journal
Nine Bullitt County elementary students have tested positive for pertussis, also know as whooping cough, according to Lesa Bodine, the school district's health coordinator.
Whooping cough cases on the rise locally
Published October 14, 2008, 7:26 am, Adirondack Daily Enterprise
SARANAC LAKE - Several cases of whooping cough have been confirmed in Franklin County. This is a very serious disease, particularly for infants 1 year old.
Passport Health, American Lung Association; Walking Together to Prevent the Flu
Published October 14, 2008, 3:45 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
Just in time for flu season, Passport Health, the nation's largest provider of travel medical services and vaccinations, will offer flu shots Saturday, October 18 at the Eastern Shore Asthma Walk held by the American Lung Association of Maryland.
Spring-Ford hit with whooping cough case
Published October 14, 2008, 2:19 am, The Mercury
LIMERICK — A second student at the Spring-Ford Area Senior High School has been diagnosed with the contagious whooping cough. The district notified parents last Friday...
More people should get flu shots, CDC says
Published October 14, 2008, 12:34 am, The Arizona Republic
Add up all the groups of people advised to get a flu shot, and you'll have 261 million Americans. Still, many people are reluctant to get one.
1 in 4 teen girls got cervical cancer shot
Published October 13, 2008, 2:43 pm, The Charlotte Observer
About one in four teen girls last year got the groundbreaking vaccine that prevents cervical cancer, federal health officials reported Thursday. The figures represent the government's first full year of vaccination rate data for the Gardasil vaccine, which came on the market in mid-2006. Merck & Co.'s heavily advertised, three-shot series targets the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus. ...
More whooping cough at Metro School
Published October 13, 2008, 2:43 pm, The Charlotte Observer
Two more people at Metro School have been diagnosed with whooping cough, bringing to three the number of cases that have been identified this week. That has prompted Mecklenburg County health officials to require all 250 Metro School students and staff to begin taking antibiotics to reduce the spread of infection. Families of all students and staff have received letters from the principal ...
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- Your Disease Risk: Complete questionnaires for various diseases to determine risk level. Includes links and resources to learn more about various diseases.
- Invasive Species: Microbes - Southern Bacterial Wilt (Ralstonia solanacearum): Southern Bacterial Wilt
- Invasive and Exotic Insects, Diseases, and Weeds: Information and Images
- ACS :: What Is Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma?
- WeAre.Us is (Almost) Like Ning, But With A Heart. Wins First VenCorps Prize.: a social network for people with chronic illness
- humna Disease
- Five Secret Reasons You May Need More Vitamin C: Mounting evidence suggests that vitamin C may be more helpful than just fighting off the sniffles.
- Infections nosocomiales : Le ministère tarde à tenir ses promesses, actualité hopitaux : Le Point
- Global Update - Researchers Decode the Genome of Two More Malaria Parasites - NYTimes.com: "Plasmodi um falciparum, which is most common in Africa and is responsible for most malaria deaths, was sequenced in 2002; now a team of 40 scientists from around the world, led by a New York University researcher, has untangled plasmodium vivax, the most common malaria in Asia and Latin America. " Also sequences P. knowlesi
- Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog: Heart disease and women
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