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Whooping cough cases in Illinois are at their highest since 1967, two years before the state began requiring immunization against it for school children, public health authorities announced
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The number of people sickened since August by peanut butter tainted with salmonella has grown by more than 200, according to a new federal report. The outbreak, first reported in February, now includes 628 cases in 47 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
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RALEIGH, NC North Carolina health officials say an outbreak of E. coli cases appears to be bigger than first thought. The number of confirmed cases has jumped from 20 to 31 cases.
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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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The doses came from vaccine manufacturer Aventis Pasteur, the company from which the county originally had ordered 2,000 doses. Before Friday, the county had received half that order.
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About 22.4 million doses of Aventis Pasteur flu vaccine that have not been shipped yet to customers will be redirected to public health departments, nursing homes and veterans hospitals to
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Local physicians and health-care officials urge Licking County&#39;s healthy adults to forgo a flu vaccine this year so those most at risk -- people 65 or older, babies and patients
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Governor Doyle is expected to make an announcement Tuesday afternoon about the state&#39;s flu vaccine supply. Reports say the governor will make the flu vaccine available to more people.
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As national estimates focus on an increase in serious infections caused by an antibiotic-resistant germ, officials in the Washington region have identified more than 18 cases among students and are organizing extensive cleanups of numerous schools.
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SAN DIEGO - San Diego County health authorities today received from the state an additional 24,000 doses of adult flu vaccine â-o be distributed to those considered at high risk for complications from the illness.
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Flu vaccines should be easier to get after this week, state health officials announced Tuesday. The bulk of the stateâs vaccine order has arrived, and health
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A John Young Middle School student is the 17th person in St. Joseph County to be diagnosed with whooping cough this year. Wayne Staggs, an epidemiologist with the Indiana State Department of Health, said St.
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While officials across the nation are urging healthy adults and schoolchildren to skip their annual flu shot, parents are mulling their options.     The news that British regulators have shut down a major flu-shot supplier carries particular concern in Colorado, which was the epicenter of last year's flu season with 12,885 reported cases and the deaths of 12 children...
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This year's hurricanes spread citrus canker to at least 11,000 trees in Charlotte County, one of the largest outbreaks of the fruit-damaging infection to ever affect Florida's citrus industry, state officials said.
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( KIRKSVILLE ) On Wednesday, KTVO told you about five confirmed cases of whooping cough in the Ottumwa Community School District. And now, we&#39;ve learned there is also a confirmed case in Adair County .
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Maricopa County is passing up 6,000 extra doses of flu vaccine, despite a waiting list of 24,000 residents wanting a shot because they are at risk for complications from the virus.
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The outbreak continued to spread, with the total number of cases across in three Northeastern states swelling to 99.