Mumps cases in Ill. county rise to 63
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The number of mumps cases in DuPage County has increased to 63 this year, with 40 cases confirmed at Wheaton College, health officials said Friday. Medical professionals in this suburban Chicago county normally see only three cases per year and are now wondering when the outbreak will end.
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A 47-year-old blood donor from White City has tested positive for the West Nile virus, marking Jackson Countyâs first human case of the mosquito-borne illness.
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Clark County will get 7,880 additional doses of flu vaccine this week but as in previous allocations, it will be restricted to people in priority categories.
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Palm Beach County stands to get 4,000 more doses of flu vaccine, and Broward County also may ask for more from a shipment of 60,000 that the Florida Department of Health bought from California.
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The Delaware County Health Department has received more flu vaccine and plans a clinic aimed at vaccinating at-risk children. The department received another 880 doses of flu vaccine
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CHICAGO Governor Rod Blagojevich (bluh-GOY&#39;-uh-vitch) today says state officials have found an additional 200-thousand doses of the flu vaccine in Europe.
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Livingston County health officials have pulled together enough doses of flu vaccine to offer a public clinic Nov. 4 for high-risk adults.
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A 53-year-old Elgin man contracted the West Nile virus, the second human case in Kane County this year, the health department reported Wednesday.
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The number of West Nile virus cases in Illinois has topped last year&#39;s total, but remains far below the record set in 2002, state officials reported Monday.
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Public health officials view the discovery of two more samples of mosquitoes infected with West Nile virus in McLean County as a warning.
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The state Department of Public Health just got in 92,000 additional doses of flu vaccine. On Nov. 16-17, Alabama&#39;s 67 county health departments will make the coveted medicine available free to the public.
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State officials said Friday that a second person has tested positive for West Nile virus this season in Pennsylvania. The individual is a 49-year-old man from York County.
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People 50 and older became eligible for flu shots Monday after Clark County health officials revised guidelines for the influenza vaccine.
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The doses came from vaccine manufacturer Aventis Pasteur, the company from which the county originally had ordered 2,000 doses. Before Friday, the county had received half that order.
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Douglas County Health and Social Services is offering flu vaccines for children ages 6 months to 18 years of age in high-risk priority groups.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. The Illinois Department of Public Health is reporting another case of West Nile disease, the state&#39;s 25th. An 48-year-old man from DuPage County became ill in mid-August with West Nile fever, but did not require hospital treatment.
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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