2 N.C. hospitals warn of virus outbreak
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Two hospitals are asking visitors, especially children, to stay away until they control an outbreak of a highly contagious stomach virus that has sickened patients and staff members.
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Three out of the seven specimens taken from patients of the Caritas Medical Centre outbreak have tested positive for parainfluenza, the Centre for Health Protection says.
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Only a few cases of influenza have surfaced regionally, but more organizations offering the flu vaccine are popping up. The Visiting Nurse Foundation, Butler Memorial Hospital and Butler Veterans Affairs Medical
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Raleigh, North Carolina - At least 24 people, most of them children, have been infected with E coli bacteria in North Carolina, and the outbreak might be connected to a petting zoo at the state fair, authorities said.
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One in 20 patients in Northern Ireland catches an infection while in hospital, according to a new survey.
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Health officials have declared a ``green&#39;&#39; code warning over the outbreak of a mysterious infection at the Caritas Medical Centre in Kowloon that has hit 28 children.
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Nine people have contracted the flu at a Manhattan nursing home in the city&#39;s first outbreak since the national vaccine shortage was announced, health officials said.
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RALEIGH, NC - At least 24 people, most of them children, have been infected with E. coli bacteria (news - web sites), and the outbreak might be connected to a petting zoo that was at the State Fair, authorities said.
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A HOSPITAL has taken two years to tell hundreds of former patients they may be at risk of HIV or hepatitis. The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London suspended a test in 2002 for fear it could spread deadly blood viruses.
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A contagious stomach virus is likely to blame for sickening about 370 people who ate at an Olive Garden restaurant in Indianapolis last week, a county health official said on Monday.
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CALGARY - An outbreak of Norovirus was responsible for more than 140 people becoming ill at a Calgary homeless shelter last weekend, the city&#39;s deputy medical officer of health said Tuesday.
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Six football players from a suburban hospital have received hospital treatment after an outbreak of viral meningitis this week. Two of the students from Watson Middle School in Cypress-Fairbanks have been discharged.
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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
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By Karen Garloch, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 12--Expanding its ever-growing reach into Carolinas counties outside Mecklenburg, Carolinas HealthCare System announced today it plans to build a new $100 million hospital in Lincolnton.
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Among three recent human deaths in Vietnam&#39;s northern Thai Nguyen province, two were initially reported to have contracted an unidentified dangerous virus, local newspaper Labor reported Monday.
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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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An outbreak of E. coli bacterial infections in central New Jersey has grown to 19 confirmed cases, a health official said Monday.