NYC hit by bedbug epidemic
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Rich or poor, they're after your blood New York City is suffering a bedbug epidemic which has provoked a huge rise in reports of the nocturnal bloodsuckers, the New York Daily News reports.â¦
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Dozens of weather-beaten New Yorkers have managed to find salvation in curatives as varied as oatmeal, olive oil and pedicures.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has dispatched staffers to southeast Kansas, in an attempt to locate the source of apparent bug bites that have plagued hundreds
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More than a quarter of New Yorkers   infected with the AIDS virus are now dying of other causes,   researchers said on Monday.
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It used to bug Georgina Smith every time she drove by the Clean Rite Center laundromat in one of Brooklyn's tougher neighborhoods. She'd look inside and see children &#151; lots of them &#151; sitting around, playing video games or watching TV.
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A severe vaccine shortage has turned the flu shot into a hot item that&#39;s hard to find in Central New York. Public flu shot clinics are drawing larger than normal crowds even though the flu season hasn&#39;t started yet.
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An estimated 3,800 people under age 24 go homeless each night in New York City, but they blend in so well they are hard for social workers to find, according to the city's first-ever census of homeless youth.
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Nine people have contracted the flu at a Manhattan nursing home in the city&#39;s first outbreak since the national vaccine shortage was announced, health officials said.
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NEW YORK  - As candles have become a staple  of home decor, the number of household fires blamed on them has  taken off as well, U.S. statistics show.
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Imagine New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former first lady and 2008 Democratic presidential aspirant, trading hotel suites for a sleepless night on a bedbug-infested mattress in an overcrowded downtown Washington, D.C., homeless shelter.
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A rare sexually transmitted disease has been discovered in New York, and the strain is the similar to one detected in Europe, the city's health commissioner said.
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The number of cases of Lyme disease has doubled in the United States since 1991 and these numbers are probably underestimated, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.
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Some 720,000 ladybugs were released to eat aphids, mites and other threats to the greenery at Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village.
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday that the city had enough flu vaccine to inoculate the small children and elderly New Yorkers who are streaming into city-run health clinics.
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Bedsores may seem simple, but they are a serious matter for medical professionals.
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Brooklynâs Foreclosure Prevention Project has been so inundated with calls from those in trouble with mortgage bills that it had to stop taking them.
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Heavy rain played havoc with routines in the New York City metropolitan area today, forcing some people to evacuate their homes.