Stomach bug sweeping the country
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People struck down by a stomach bug sweeping the country have been urged not to go back to work for 48 hours.
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More than a dozen wards in hospitals are shut by illness, in some cases caused by a winter vomiting bug.
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Bodies washed up on tropical beaches and piled up in hospitals yesterday, raising fears of disease across a 10-nation arc of destruction left by a monster earthquake and tsunamis that killed more than 22,000 people.
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NEW YORK  - Some patients with chronic fatigue syndrome appear to have a chronic enteroviral infection that can be detected by a stomach biopsy, according to a report in the current Online First issue of the Journal of Clinical Pathology.
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A contagious stomach virus is likely to blame for sickening about 370 people who ate at an an Indianapolis Olive Garden restaurant last week, a county health official said on Monday.
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The authorities in Singapore voice concern about a tropical disease that has killed 23 people this year.
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A Malaysian state near the border with Thailand faces a quarantine to stop the spread of potentially deadly bird flu, which has spread inexorably since first being discovered in this country a month ago, a news report said
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The bug that causes stomach ulcers may become more virulent when exposed to high levels of salt.
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Theresa Torres, Reporter. Sharing its neighborsâ fears of a bird-flu pandeÂ­mic after the first probable case of human-to-human infection was reported in Thailand, the Philippine government on Wednes
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BANGKOK A day after Thai and international officials confirmed the first probable human-to-human transmission of a virulent strain of avian influenza in this country, public health systems around the globe were scrambling to prepare for a possible pandemic
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People struck down by a stomach bug sweeping the UK have been urged not to go back to work for 48 hours.
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NEW YORK  - After a bout with a stomach bug, the likelihood that a person will go on to develop irritable bowel syndrome seems to go up if he or she is susceptible to stress and anxiety, according to a new study.
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Cases of diarrheal illness are being reported across tsunami-ravaged areas of South Asia, and World Health Organization authorities estimated yesterday that as many as 5 million survivors of the calamity are at dire risk of disease because they lack basic necessities for survival: water, sanitation, shelter, and food.
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Hundreds of catering firms in the region are being contacted as part of the alert. It follows four outbreaks of salmonella in Greater Manchester and Cheshire this year been linked to contaminated Spanish eggs.
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Top-ranked Roger Federer showed no lasting effects from a nasty stomach bug.  Other winners at the Australian Open included Novak Djokovic, James Blake and Lleyton Hewitt on the menâs side, and Venus Williams and Anna Chakvetadze on the womenâs side.
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KAMPUNG PASIR PEKAN, Malaysia  - Malaysia gassed  hundreds of screeching birds in a village near the Thai border  on Thursday, seeking a quick end to its first outbreak of bird  flu, a scourge that has killed 27 people in Southeast Asia this  year.
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Investigators are trying to determine the source of an outbreak of gastrointestinal infections on an island in Ohio. More than 1,000 visitors to South Bass Island in Lake Erie