Whooping cough on the rise in New York
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After several years under the public health radar, whooping cough is making a comeback in New York. The number of New Yorkers affected by the highly contagious respiratory illness
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Approximately 10,000 cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, were reported to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2003.
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New data from the city's Health Department show an increase in H.I.V. infection rates among young men.
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The mayor of New York City on Wednesday became the latest state or local official to take direct action to address the flu vaccine shortage by ordering vaccine directly from European wholesalers.
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The city is reaching overseas to get 200,000 more flu vaccines, officials said yesterday as they revealed there already have been at least four flu-related deaths in New York this season.
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New York City joined Illinois' effort  on Wednesday to acquire hundreds of thousands of doses of  scarce flu vaccine from Europe, though U.S. regulatory approval  of the transaction was still up in the air.
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New York City joined Illinois&#39; effort on Wednesday to acquire hundreds of thousands of doses of scarce flu vaccine from Europe, though US regulatory approval of the transaction was still up in the air.
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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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NEW YORK - If there was an increase in the number of people who took the day off from work or stayed home from school Tuesday, it may not have been the flu that kept them at home and on the couch.
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A flu vaccination shortage that caused lines of anxious elderly people outside drug stores and clinics across America prompted a fierce
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Whooping cough has been diagnosed in more than two dozen medical workers at the same hospital in the past three weeks, and 55 others who have shown symptoms are being tested, a spokesman said Saturday.
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Scrambling to ease a vaccine crunch, New York City joined other jurisdictions ordering vaccine from Europe, putting pressure on the Bush administration to authorize the shipments.
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About 6,000 to 8,000 doses of influenza vaccine will be available this month to St. Louis County residents who are considered to be at high risk of catching the flu.
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(HealthDay News) -- Whooping cough, also called pertussis, is a bacterial respiratory infection that's often characterized by a &quot;whoop&quot; sound when the person breathes.
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The number of cases of measles in Britain is increasing, health authorities said Thursday, as they urged parents to have their children vaccinated against the disease.
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The shortage of flu vaccine has imposed an unusual moral and philosophical calculus on healthy New Yorkers as they face up to the worries of the coming flu season.
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NEW YORK  - Childhood vaccination against   whooping cough (also known as pertussis) and measles is not   associated with an increased risk for encephalopathy, a disease   of the brain, according to a new report.