Tag: infectious diseases
CDC says flu outbreak widespread, too early to determine severity
Vaccination and prevention will play a vital role in battling the 2013 influenza outbreak in the United States. But the CDC says determining the severity of the outbreak and forecasting how long it will last will be difficult....
Record drought conditions contribute to unprecedented levels of West Nile virus
Dallas took an unprecedented step Thursday of launching an aerial spraying campaign to try and stop the spread of potentially deadly West Nile virus. Across the country, West Nile is extremely common this year, but especially in the south....
AIDS Memorial Quilt turns 25 as fight against the disease continues
The first panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt was created in 1987 by a gay rights activist in San Francisco. Since then, 100,000 people have sewn more than 48,000 panels that depict the lives of loved ones lost to the disease....
Whooping cough epidemic reported in Washington State
Whooping cough is not a disease many Americans worry about. It's become extremely rare because of agressive vaccination efforts. But, now, for a variety of reasons, a new outbreak has emerged in Washington State, which has left doctors scrambling to contain it....
Antibiotic use fuels drug resistant superbugs from India
Some of modern medicine’s most important drugs are losing their potency. Antibiotics are failing as disease-causing bacteria become resistant. It’s happening all over, but India may play an especially big role in fueling the problem....
Doctor suggests social media may be cause of a viral twitching disorder
Doctors treating the case of nearly 20 teenagers with a bizarre outbreak of a twitching disorder in upstate New York say that the symptoms may be spreading through social media. However, some doctors are offering a different explanation of the cause of the illness--an autoimmune disorder called PANDAS....
Deadly bat disease kills entire colonies
Scientists have recently determined that a European fungus is decimating whole colonies of bats in New England....
Book warns that deadly pandemic may not be far off
If you've seen the movie Contagion, you have a good idea of what a deadly pandemic could look like in real life. A new book from a Stanford biologist says just such a pandemic may happen sooner than we'd like....
Factory farms may be breeding drug-resistant bacteria
Overuse of antibiotics on animals is leading to fears that factory farms are creating drug-resistant pathogens, like the staph infection, MRSA....
'Contagion': How real life could imitate art
According to an epidemiologist, the deadly pandemic virus in the blockbuster film "Contagion" could happen in real life....
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