CDC probes cause of hantavirus in W.Va.
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ELKINS, W.Va. -- Centers for Disease Control investigators have been in the state this month trapping mice and interviewing people in an attempt to determine how two men contracted the deadly hantavirus disease in July.
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A 39-year-old Douglas County resident has the flu. The Douglas County Health Department ran confirmation tests on cultures Tuesday.
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Scientists are investigating the cause of the latest UK foot-and-mouth outbreak at two farms in Surrey.
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West Nile virus appears to have claimed its first human victim this year in Fairfax County (website - news) . Health officials say an elderly man in the Mount Vernon section of the county is the first probable case of the year.
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State and federal health authorities  were trying on Wednesday to determine the cause of an outbreak  that has sickened about 1,000 people who visited an Ohio island  getaway in Lake Erie.
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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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Federal health officials said they were investigating dozens of blood infections in at least two states that have been linked to contaminated medical syringes.
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Federal health officials are investigating if there's a link between illnesses reported by several workers at a pig slaughterhouse in Indiana and those seen recently in workers at a Minnesota pork plant.
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Officials are investigating Taco Bell restaurants as the possible source of the infections.
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As summer winds down, public health officials are keeping track of the potentially deadly West Nile virus. So far, Ingham County has been spared from human cases of the virus, and officials want to keep it that way.
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Los Angeles County Department of Health Services is reporting a death from locally acquired West Nile Virus (WNV). The victim is a 62-year-old male from the eastern region of the county who passed away last week.
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Fairfax County health officials said an elderly man has died of a suspected case of West Nile virus. If additional tests confirm the diagnosis, his death will be the first reported fatality from the virus in Virginia this year.
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New questions arose on Friday about a cluster of deaths believed to be from a rare brain disease in a single county in upstate New York when tests
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Tests have confirmed that a Milwaukee man died this year from West Nile virus, the manager of disease control and prevention for the Milwaukee Health Department says.
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Officials were investigating the cause of a deadly bird flu outbreak on a farm in Suffolk on Monday as workers culled thousands of turkeys to prevent the virus from spreading.
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Fairfax County health officials warned principals at all county public schools to be on the lookout for students or staff with symptoms of whooping cough.
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A reported boom in U.S. whooping cough cases is now being questioned after health officials discovered a regularly used lab test misdiagnosed cases in suspected outbreaks in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Tennessee.