Unknown disease surfaces at Harborview
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A middle-aged Alaskan woman who died in Harborview Medical Center with dementia hinting of an ailment similar to mad cow disease appears to have succumbed to an unknown kind of neurodegenerative disease.
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Officials at Kings County Hospital Center said that they were âclosely examiningâ why doctors there failed to detect a drug-resistant staph infection in a boy who died this month.
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ONE more child at a Hong Kong hospital has fallen prey to the mysterious respiratory infection that has put the Special Administrative Region on &quot;green&quot; alert.
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Investigators searching for the source of an outbreak that sickened hundreds of travelers on a Lake Erie resort island are focusing on drinking water.
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Contaminated wells may be the source of  the mystery illness that has stricken more than 1,000 visitors  to an Ohio island getaway in Lake Erie, authorities said on  Friday.
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San Francisco public health officials issued a warning Monday that a rare and potentially debilitating sexually transmitted disease reported recently in the Netherlands has turned up among a small number of patients in the city.
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Mike Waites Health Correspondent, SCIENTISTS have identified a new strain of vCJD which could strike people previously unaffected by the disease.
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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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Police and firefighters searched floor to floor at a homeless shelter yesterday after more than 200 people developed a mysterious illness during the night.
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By Jennifer L. Boen, The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind.  Feb. 14--Parkview Health and Lutheran Health Network hospitals Tuesday night were operating under snow emergency protocols.   Code White was declared for Parkview, said spokesman Gary Penner.
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Hundreds of patients and hospital workers may have been exposed to tuberculosis by a health care worker sick with the airborne disease, and at least 10 people have caught it, public health officials said Monday.
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PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio  -- More than 300 people appear to be linked to a mysterious illness including nausea, fever, and vomiting in recent weeks on Lake Erie&#39;s South Bass Island, health officials said Thursday.
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Millions of people around the country are walking around with the sickle-cell anemia trait but don&#39;t know it. Today, Children&#39;s Hospital and Research Center at Oakland will give people a chance to find out.
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Health experts have identified a mystery illness that has infected 34 children in a Hong Kong hospital as a common respiratory virus.
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- A mysterious illness is k
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Officials are trying to figure out why workers at a meat plant were stricken with a strange neurological illness.
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A newly discovered virus related to the SARS virus may cause several mysterious childhood ailments, including Kawasaki disease, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.