Midwest town sees return of old disease
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For the past two weeks, high school nurse Colleen Kahler has been on high alert.
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By John Dobberstein, Tulsa World, Okla.  Sep. 22--Four years ago, the West Nile virus spread like a wave to the nation's heartland, taking not just a human toll, but crippling or killing thousands of horses.   Today, the problem appears to be under control.
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State officials said a 49-year-old woman from Lancaster County has been diagnosed with West Nile virus. This is the fourth human case of the virus in Pennsylvania confirmed by state officials this year.
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As much as two-thirds of Lake County&#39;s adult non-Indian population who are at risk for complications from flu - mainly the elderly - may not get flu shots this year
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FERGUS FALLS, Minn. - People who went to a Fergus Falls clinic to get a flu shot didn&#39;t receive the vaccine they wanted. Instead, they received an old-fashioned remedy for warding off the flu.
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SALEM, Ore.  A dead crow in Oregon&#39;s remote southeast corner brought the news: The West Nile virus had arrived in Oregon, previously among the last states to be free of it.
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By TODD RICHMOND LAKE DELTON, Wis. - In a wooded ravine tucked away from the water parks, restaurants and mega-resorts that dominate this tourist town, a piece of history is quietly dying.
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The first case of the West Nile Virus for 2004 was recently confirmed in a horse in the northern part of St. Francois County. The confirmed case makes St.
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A new span across the copper-colored St. Louis Bay is a hopeful link to the return of better days.
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West Nile virus seems to have put the bite on Toronto a bit earlier this year, with Toronto Public Health reporting yesterday that a 50-year-old woman is recovering at home from the city&#39;s first probable human case of the mosquito-borne virus.
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As Superman Returns star Brandon Routh is about to establish   his place in Man of Steel lore, one Iowa town is working to reestablish   another Superman&#039;s.
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A 60-year-old Fayette County man is recovering after spending a week in an area hospital early last month for treatment of West Nile virus, a potentially serious illness that affects the central nervous system.
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A string of deaths caused by Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare brain malady, in upstate New York has led a community to become increasingly concerned.
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Kane County health officials again this week warned residents against forgetting about West Nile virus as the number of virus-carrying mosquitoes appears to be on the rise.
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A 56-year-old Placer County resident has received a &quot;preliminary positive&quot; on a test for West Nile virus. If follow-up tests are also positive, that person would be the first in the county to contract the disease.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. Sept. 12, 2004 - A year after Pennsylvania experienced a surge in West Nile cases, the number of people infected with the mosquito-borne virus appear to be headed back down.
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For a disease that scientists conquered 40 years ago, tuberculosis has made an astonishing comeback. Today relatively recent strains of TB that resist antibiotics have driven