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Chile on alert as prison rats spread hantavirus

Headlines from the Associated Press  Mon, 02/06/2012 - 11:38

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Chile declared a public health alert Monday over a hantavirus outbreak that has killed three people and infected at least 10 others....


 

Zimbabwe doctors report 800 typhoid cases

Headlines from the Associated Press  Sun, 01/29/2012 - 03:19

HARARE,Zimbabwe (AP) -- An independent doctors' group in Zimbabwe is reporting 800 cases of the bacterial disease typhoid in a recent outbreak....


 

Whooping cough on the rise New York City

NYDailyNews.com - Health - NY Daily News  Tue, 01/03/2012 - 14:01

No one has died in the latest outbreak, but whooping cough — a violent, chronic cough also known as pertussis — can be extremely dangerous to infants.


 

Cantaloupe listeria outbreak kills 29

NYDailyNews.com - Health - NY Daily News  Thu, 11/03/2011 - 08:52

The death toll in an outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe has reached 29 after federal health authorities say an eighth person has died in the state of Colorado.


 

28 now dead in listeria outbreak in cantaloupe

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Health and Fitness  Tue, 10/25/2011 - 16:00

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Dirty Equipment Likely Led to Listeria Outbreak

WebMD Health  Wed, 10/19/2011 - 17:14

farmer weighing cantaloupe

Results of an investigation by state and federal health officials have shed light on how cantaloupes grown by a Colorado farm became contaminated with deadly listeria bacteria.


 

Listeria Death Toll Mounts

MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Thu, 10/13/2011 - 10:00

(MedPage Today) -- The number of deaths attributed to Listeria infection in the outbreak traced to contaminated Colorado-grown cantaloupes has now reached 23, the CDC said late Wednesday.


 

Encephalitis kills 400 in India

BBC News | Health | World Edition  Wed, 10/12/2011 - 05:55

More than 400 people, mainly children, die in an outbreak of water-borne viral encephalitis in northern India, health officials say.


 

Death Toll in Listeria Outbreak Reaches 21

MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:23

(MedPage Today) -- More than 100 people in 24 states have now fallen ill and 21 have died from the Listeria monocytogenes infection traced to Colorado-grown cantaloupes, the CDC said Friday.


 

21 deaths in US linked to listeria in cantaloupe

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Health and Fitness  Fri, 10/07/2011 - 13:30

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