Air conditioning system causes legionnaire's outbreak in Barcelona
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The authorities in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia said that an outbreak of legionnaire's disease in Barcelona earlier this month had been traced back to the air conditioning system of a private clinic.
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Beijing&#39;s booming hot spring resorts have been ordered to raise hygiene standards after health inspectors found two-thirds of them failed bacteria tests in the first inspection of its kind, state media said on Wednesday.
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The respiratory illness outbreak at the Caritas Medical Centre has been confirmed to be parainfluenza virus type 4, the Centre for Health Protection says.
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A 2-year-old boy who died from kidney failure last month had been infected with the same strain of E. coli bacteria that sickened at least 192 people and killed one woman in a nationwide outbreak, health officials said Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - An antibiotic-resistant germ is  increasingly causing skin infections and pneumonia in otherwise  healthy children and adults.
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Heathrow airport is "as safe as ever" after a worker contracted Legionnaires' disease, management says.
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Sweltering heat was blamed Sunday for at least three deaths in Northern California, including a resident at a nursing home who died after the facility's air conditioning system failed.
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More than 250 people have reported becoming sick after eating at an Indianapolis Olive Garden restaurant, a county health official said on Friday, a day after an outbreak of E.coli at Taco Bell restaurants was declared over.
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An investigation was underway today into a cluster of three cases of Legionnaireâs Disease. Health officials in East Yorkshire said the inquiry has been set up because it is unusual
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Business & money: Leaking factory pipe identified as most likely cause of illness in more than 30 people.
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People holidaying in exotic places without being vaccinated is fuelling a rise in dangerous diseases, warn doctors.
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Health authorities in Hong Kong are investigating the outbreak of a mysterious respiratory illness in a hospital that has infected 28 children.
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Southeastern Europe baked under soaring temperatures Friday, with nearly 30 deaths across the region blamed on the year's first major heat wave. Electricity supplies, particularly in Greece and Albania, were strained as air conditioning use spiked.
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Three out of the seven specimens taken from patients of the Hong Kong Caritas Medical Center outbreak have tested positive for parainfluenza, the Center for Health Protection
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MONTREALâAn infection-control specialist has described a Clostridium difficile outbreak in Quebec as an &quot;epidemic&quot; that has killed 109 people in 10 hospitals over a six-month period this year.
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Bacteria responsible for Legionnaires' disease is found in water in the healthcare centre of Magilligan jail.
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Experts are warning of a link between jacuzzis and the bacterium that causes Legionnaires' disease.