Officials investigate oyster virus outbreak
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U.S. health regulators are investigating the illnesses of eight people from a virus linked to raw, frozen oysters imported from South Korea and served at an Oregon event, the Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday.
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Anne Arundel County school officials have sent letters home and urged better hygiene after reports of bacterial skin infections among more than two dozen students. But officials say there is no outbreak and no need to panic.
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Prince George's authorities reported Wednesday that a county resident has likely contracted West Nile virus, the first human case of the mosquito-borne illness in the region this year.
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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration on Friday advised people not to eat raw oysters harvested in a particular area of Washington state, citing bacterial illnesses that have sickened at least six people in that state and California.
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NI poultry farmers are told to be extra vigilant following a bird flu outbreak in the east of England.
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BANGKOKâThai and international health officials held an emergency meeting early today to review a case in which there is a &quot;very remote possibility&quot; that bird flu was passed from human to human, a senior WHO official said.
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Warnings could be introduced after analysis confirms high levels of bacteria and viruses.
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Health chiefs look at how a rare infection caught from farm animals came to affect 28 people in Cheltenham.
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New methods are employed around Britain to check for possible outbreaks of bird flu in at-risk areas.
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Health officials say the stomach illness that struck about 60 people last week is likely the same virus that sickened about 100 students at the University of Maryland earlier this month.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has advised against eating raw oysters harvested in Washington state, citing a recent rash of bacteria-caused illnesses that have sickened people on both coasts.
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Israeli medical officials investigate a superbug outbreak in hospitals that may have killed dozens of people.
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A contagious stomach virus is likely to blame for sickening about 370 people who ate at an Olive Garden restaurant in Indianapolis last week, a county health official said on Monday.
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New methods are being employed around Britain to check for possible outbreaks of bird flu in areas considered to be at risk.
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The public is being asked to help monitor Northern Ireland seal colonies following an outbreak of a deadly virus.
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Thai and international health officials  were due to hold an emergency meeting on Monday to review a  case in which there is a "very remote possibility" bird flu was  passed from human to human, a senior WHO official said.
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Questions must be raised as to why it has taken such a long time to determine that former employees at a poultry farm in Kyoto Prefecture struck early this year by a massive outbreak of bird flu were infected with the virus during the incident.