Germ outbreak reported at L.A. hospital
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A hospital has closed its neonatal and pediatrics intensive care units to new admissions after a potentially fatal bacterium sickened seven children, including an infant who may have died from the infection, officials said Friday.
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Sixteen hospital deaths in the Northern Trust area are linked to an outbreak of the superbug C. difficile.
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A norovirus may have caused hundreds of people to become sick last week after eating at an Olive Garden restaurant, a health official said Monday.
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Raleigh, North Carolina - At least 24 people, most of them children, have been infected with E coli bacteria in North Carolina, and the outbreak might be connected to a petting zoo at the state fair, authorities said.
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A strain of bacteria that has been plaguing Quebec hospitals is more widespread and deadly than previously believed. A study by McGill University epidemiologist Vivian Loo looked at incidents of Clostridium
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E. coli similar to that linked to a recent deadly outbreak has been found in eight fecal samples collected near two California farms that may have been a source of contaminated spinach.
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Loyola University Medical Center on Monday announced plans to start testing all incoming patients for a drug-resistant staph germ and isolating those who carry the dangerous bacteria.
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An outbreak of E. coli infections linked to last month&#39;s state fair may be larger than previously thought, with more than 100 additional cases under review, according to health officials.
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HONG KONG - Health authorities are investigating the outbreak of a mysterious respiratory illness in a children&#39;s hospital, where at least 30 young patients have been infected, reported Channel NewsAsia.
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MONTREAL - A Montreal infectious disease specialist who studies Clostridium difficile has described the outbreak of the bacteria in Quebec hospitals as an epidemic.
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Health officials have declared a ``green&#39;&#39; code warning over the outbreak of a mysterious infection at the Caritas Medical Centre in Kowloon that has hit 28 children.
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Investigators are focusing on three   counties in central California in the search for the source of   an E. coli outbreak linked to fresh spinach that has spread to   23 states and sickened 146 people, the U.S. Food and Drug   Administration said on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK  - An industrial pollution-control air scrubber in Sarpsborg, Norway has been identified as the source of an outbreak of Legionnaires disease that occurred in May 2005, according to health officials who investigated the outbreak.
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Federal health officials are investigating whether a more potent strain of E. coli is behind an outbreak linked to fresh spinach that has sickened at least 131 people, half of whom have been hospitalized.
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There are reports a bacteria plaguing Quebec hospitals is more widespread and deadly than previously believed. After studying the spread of Clostridium difficile bacteria at eight hospitals in Montreal, a
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OMAHA, Neb. &#151; A week after ConAgra Foods Inc. recalled peanut butter from its Georgia plant after a salmonella outbreak, the Center for Disease Control confirmed the presence of the dangerous germ.
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Hospital patients are being asked to become hygiene inspectors under plans announced by a health board.