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No whooping cough deaths in California last year Public health officials credit greater awareness, faster diagnosis and a new state law requiring that middle and high school students get a booster shot.

The number of overdose deaths from powerful painkillers more than tripled over a decade, the government reported Tuesday - a trend that a U.S. health official called an epidemic, but one that can be stopped.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- There's new hope for an overlooked epidemic: Two powerful drugs are nearing the market that promise to help cure many more people of liver-attacking hepatitis C - even though most who have the simmering infection don't know it yet....

C. Everett Koop, the surgeon general of the United States during the early years of AIDS, warns that a quarter of a century later there is a "growing complacency" about the epidemic.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- State health officials reported Thursday that California is on track to break a 55-year record for whooping cough infections in an epidemic that has already claimed the lives of nine infants....

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Mosquito-borne dengue fever is reaching epidemic stages across the Caribbean, with dozens of deaths reported and health authorities concerned it could get much worse as the rainy season advances....

Every hour a baby is born in China with syphilis, as the world's fastest-growing epidemic of the disease is fueled by men with new money from the nation's booming economy, researchers say....

The lack of clean water in the stricken Haitian capital fosters conditions that may spawn an epidemic of enteric disease.