Health Officials Say Student Who Died Had Drug-Resistant Staph Infection
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Health officials said the student had become infected with a virulent, drug-resistant strain of bacteria that is primarily spread in hospitals but that in recent years has surfaced increasingly in nonhospital settings.
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The MRSA superbug has played a part in 116 deaths in Northern Ireland in the past seven years, figures have shown. Nearly three quarters of those deaths occurred in the over-75 age group.
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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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The headlines are disturbing -- schools closing for disinfection, a 17-year-old dead from a drug-resistant "superbug." But health officials said on Friday it is no new emergency and the best way to deal with the bacteria is simply to wash your hands.
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Health reports show it would have been difficult for Desert Vista High School students to contract bacterial meningitis from a fellow student who is recuperating at an area hospital.
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-- Health officials were investigating Friday whether the death of a Maryland woman who was infected with E. coli is linked to the national spinach-related outbreak of the bacteria.
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An antibiotic-resistant germ is increasingly causing skin infections and pneumonia in otherwise healthy children and adults.
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By now, you've seen the headlines about MRSA, the killer staph virus. Yes, it can be deadly, but it can also be treated
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Hospitals can stem the alarming spread of a dangerous and drug-resistant staph infection by screening new patients and keeping them quarantined, say doctors who tried this novel approach.
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Health officials say it is possible to  contract MRSA, the staph bacterium, at a gym, but the risk is low.
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Officials at Kings County Hospital Center said that they were âclosely examiningâ why doctors there failed to detect a drug-resistant staph infection in a boy who died this month.
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An antibiotic often used in hospital intensive care units to treat serious staph infections resistant to other medicines may cause a sometimes-fatal bleeding condition, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Two members of a Thai family fell ill with avian influenza, and a third probably died of it, the Thai health ministry announced late Tuesday morning, saying that human
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BANGKOK - A 26-year-old woman who died of avian flu eight days ago almost certainly contracted the disease from her daughter in what could be the first documented case of human to human transmission of the virus, health officials say.
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If only patients were routinely screened for symptoms of the deadly staph infection before checking into the hospital. Yet hospitals oppose efforts to make this screening mandatory.
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The family of a student who died from an undiagnosed deep vein thrombosis welcomes efforts to improve diagnosis.
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An antibiotic-resistant germ is increasingly causing skin infections and pneumonia in otherwise healthy children and adults. That&#39;s according to two of several