Officials investigate illnesses, death in Troy assisted-living ...
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Health officials on Thursday were investigating the cause of an illness that has spread through an assisted-living facility, leaving one resident dead and eight hospitalized.
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The state Health Department is investigating suspected cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare brain disease, in Ulster County.
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The county&#39;s assistant health officer confirms that blood tests from a 56-year-old man recovering from meningitis indicate that he has been infected with West Nile.
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A mystery illness in Panama claimed the life of another victim on Thursday, bringing to 18 the number of people who have died from it and baffled health officials said poison could be involved.
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A post-mortem examination takes place after a 93-year-old is found dead near his home, by a neighbour.
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Lee County -- West Nile virus attacks Georgians again. Two Fulton County men are infected with West Nile Virus, the first confirmed cases in the state of the season.
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LOS ANGELES -- The orthopedic department at the troubled King/Drew Medical Center in South Los Angeles is the latest target of a county investigation.
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New questions arose on Friday about a cluster of deaths believed to be from a rare brain disease in a single county in upstate New York when tests
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An intestinal virus is suspected of causing one death and landing 15 elderly residents of a Troy assisted living facility in hospitals.
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As summer winds down, public health officials are keeping track of the potentially deadly West Nile virus. So far, Ingham County has been spared from human cases of the virus, and officials want to keep it that way.
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State and federal health authorities were trying on Wednesday to determine the cause of an outbreak that has sickened about 1,000 people who visited an Ohio island getaway in Lake Erie.
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The husband and wife owners of a nursing home near New Orleans were indicted Wednesday on charges of negligent homicide and cruelty in the deaths of 35 patients who perished in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Samples taken from 15 patients at a local hospital were sent to a state lab in Lansing to identify the illness that spread to residents of an assisted-living facility in Troy on Thursday.
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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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Fife Police launch an investigation into what they describe as a suspicious death in Tayport.
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(Albany, NY-AP, October 18, 2004) - State health officials said Monday an investigation found nothing unusual about the number of people who died of a rare, brain-wasting disorder in the Hudson Valley in the past year.
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Investigators trying to track down the source of an outbreak of gastrointestinal illnesses on a Lake Erie resort island are focusing on drinking water.