Spread of Mumps Is Feared After Maine Reports Cases
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State health officials across New England think the disease could spread quickly, particularly because of the regionâs abundance of college students, who are thought to be at particular risk.
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FRIDAY, Jan. 14 (HealthDayNews) -- Add high blood pressure -- that's right, high blood pressure -- to the list of childhood ills that have historically included diseases like chicken pox and the mumps.
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The state's mumps epidemic has given scientists at the University of Iowa an opportunity to test out some new technology.
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New Mexico is on the verge of becoming the latest state to require girls entering sixth grade to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitting virus that can cause cervical cancer, a spokesman for the governor said Monday.
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Emergency room visits for vomiting and diarrhea -- the most common symptoms of norovirus, or the stomach flu -- have jumped to 500 a day this month from 300 a day in November.
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Recent measles outbreaks in the U.S. are revealing the vulnerability of two groups, experts say: those given ineffective vaccines in the mid-1960s, and those refusing to get vaccinated today.(Part One of a three-part series on the resurgence of diseases once thought wiped out)
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The program began in 1985 and is dedicated to increasing public knowledge about a disease that will strike an estimated 215,990 women in the United States this year -- nearly 1,000 in Maine.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- New Mexico is on the verge of becoming the latest state to require sixth-grade girls to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus that can cause cervical cancer, a spokesman for the governor said Monday.
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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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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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After a number of E. coli-related illnesses have recently been reported in the state, area health officials are asking Twin Counties residents to look for warning signs of the disease.
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The National Disease Surveillance Centre has said that the uptake of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) remains at 15% below the national target.
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JUST over a year ago I travelled from Barcelona to Madrid on one of Spain&#39;s inter-city trains. It was quite an experience. But there again, so is an attack of mumps.
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The Federal government is promising to investigate claims the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories knowingly released contaminated polio vaccines containing a virus that can cause cancer.
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Researchers are puzzled over what may cause high levels of respiratory and throat cancers found in various clusters across the county.
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An outbreak of avian influenza (&#39;bird flu&#39;) among villagers in Thailand is raising fresh fears that spread of the virus, which kills 75 per cent of people it infects, could, at least in principle, reach pandemic proportions.
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The flu season may be starting out slowly, but experts say New Yorkers shouldn&#39;t let their guard down. New York and Delaware are the only states to report significant flu outbreaks this