Brain disease alert in Melbourne
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One of Australia&#39;s biggest hospitals, Royal Melbourne, is contacting 1056 people who have undergone brain or spinal surgery in the past 18 months after a patient died this year of the rare Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
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Multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease and other neurological diseases may be far more common than most people had believed, according to new estimates published on Monday.
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Children in overcrowded housing are up to 10 times more likely to contract meningitis, a report reveals.
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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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By The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 20--GULFPORT -- City officials have issued at boil water notice along McCandliss Drive because of a broken water main.
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A VICTORIAN man holidaying at Corowa faces a nerve-wracking two-day wait to see if he is one of 1056 Royal Melbourne Hospital patients possibly exposed to a deadly brain disease.
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The UK Department of Health is today issuing the latest information about the numbers of known cases of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease.
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State officials said a second human case of West Nile virus has been diagnosed in Virginia this year. A spokesman for the state Department of Health said the man, who is in his 70s, is in the hospital but is expected to recover.
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BRITAIN could be sitting on a CJD timebomb because thousands of people might be carrying the fatal brain disease without knowing it.
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One in 60 older people may be walking around with benign brain tumors and don't know it. Even more may have bulging blood vessels in the head that could burst. These results come from a surprising new Dutch study that finds brain abnormalities are not all that uncommon.
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More than 500 patients at Atlanta&#39;s Emory University Hospital are being warned that they may have been exposed to a fatal brain disease that resembles mad cow, the Atlanta-Journal Constitution reported Friday.
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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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NEW YORK  - People who think they're having a stroke, and their loved ones, often call others for advice before calling an ambulance, hints a study conducted in Australia. This could lead to delays in the administration of potentially life-saving treatment.
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The Santa Clara County Public Health Department today confirmed the first human case of West Nile Virus in the Bay Area. The department reports that a 50-year-old man became ill on Aug. 25 and was hospitalized on Aug. 29 with mild neurological symptoms.
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Hospitals and health officials across Thailand have been placed on high alert to monitor for any cases of human-to-human transmission of the deadly bird flu virus.
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NEW YORK  - TV ads that teach the warning signs of stroke may encourage more victims to get to the hospital quickly, researchers have found.
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MARK COLVIN: Melbourne&#39;s Royal Children&#39;s Hospital was given the all clear this evening to resume neurosurgery, after a day of uncertainty over whether to destroy neurosurgical equipment in the wake of yesterday&#39;s Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease scare.