10 Staph Infection Cases in NY
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Nine athletes and a coach at Iona College contracted an antibiotic-resistant staph infection, which has spread through schools nationwide
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The incidence of drug-resistant staph infections is climbing, affecting as many as 90,000 Americans a year and leaving them open to contracting invasive, and often fatal, diseases, a government report says.
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The number of deaths linked to a hospital bug called C. difficile has outstripped those due to MRSA.
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Federal health officials said Tuesday they are investigating dozens of blood infections in at least two states that have been linked to medical syringes contaminated with bacteria.
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NEW YORK  - The rate of skin and soft tissue infections that were resistant to most antibiotics, acquired in Chicago communities, increased rapidly between 2000 and 2005, researchers report.
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A lethal new form of MRSA is reported to be more prevalent among the gay community in the US.
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Group A streptococcal infection  appears to be associated with changes in behavior and the  development of a movement disorder in elementary school  children, according to a report in the current issue of  Biological Psychiatry.
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Officials at Kings County Hospital Center said that they were âclosely examiningâ why doctors there failed to detect a drug-resistant staph infection in a boy who died this month.
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NEW YORK  - Contact with small pet turtles was to blame for 103 Salmonella infections that occurred in 33 states between May and December 2007, according to federal health officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta.
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Onondaga County will hold three public flu clinics over the next month. The announcement comes after they received 2,100 more doses of the flu vaccine from the New York State Department of Health.
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A popular Project Runway contestant contracts a potentially-deadly infection.
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Just days before his death, the Brooklyn middle-school student who died from an antibiotic-resistant staph infection had visited a hospital with skin lesions and was treated with allergy medicine, according to the family's lawyer, Paul Weitz.
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Nine athletes and a coach at Iona College contracted an antibiotic-resistant staph infection, which has spread through schools nationwide, health officials said Friday.
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Hundreds of patients and hospital workers may have been exposed to tuberculosis by a health care worker sick with the airborne disease, and at least 10 people have caught it, public health officials said Monday.
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One in 20 patients in Northern Ireland catches an infection while in hospital, according to a new survey.
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Singapore reported more new AIDScases in the first 10 months of this year as compared with the same period of last year. According to local press reports on Wednesday night
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TRENTON, N.J. - Flesh-eating bacteria cases, fatal pneumonia and life-threatening heart infections suddenly are popping up around the country, striking healthy people and stunning their doctors...