Officials worry about virus in blood supply
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TORONTO - Health authorities in Canada are trying to determine what measures need to be taken to ensure the safety of the country&#39;s blood supply after learning a little-understood primate virus can be transmitted through blood transfusion.
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Tens of thousands of survivors are at risk from diseases spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and crowding.
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The World Health Organisation has said it is concerned about the world&#39;s first probable human to human transmission of the bird flu virus.
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Local health officials worry that all the education, awareness and prevention programs about HIV/AIDS aren&#39;t working since many Franklin County residents continue to have unprotected sex and are becoming infected with the virus.
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WASHINGTON: The World Health Organisation, Doctors Without Borders and other agencies have begun rushing medical teams, generators and other equipment to provide safe drinking water and sanitation and reduce threats of infectious-disease outbreaks in the
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School officials around the country have been scrambling this week after several cases of staph infection some of which have led to the death of students.
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About 4,000 customers could be at risk after a worker at a Jamba Juice store in San Jose, California, developed hepatitis A, the chief medical officer for Santa Clara County said on Thursday.
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A Norovirus outbreak in Calgary appears to be spreading, as the health authority got word over the weekend that six patients and seven staff members at Foothills Hospital have symptoms of the illness.
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Health officials are urging the public to stay patient -- even as some states are reporting a shortage of flu shots for their high-risk populations.
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BANGKOK -- Thai and international health officials held an emergency meeting on Monday to review a case in which there is a &quot;very remote possibility&quot; bird flu was passed from human to human, a senior WHO official said.
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Health officials on Thursday were investigating the cause of an illness that has spread through an assisted-living facility, leaving one resident dead and eight hospitalized.
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At least 278 blood donors in India&#39;s north-eastern state of Tripura were found to be HIV-positive, fuelling fears that blood supplied from blood banks in the region could be infected with the killer virus that causes AIDS.
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JOHANNESBURG, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Nearly one in every four South African servicemen has contracted HIV/AIDS while the country&#39;s political parties urged the government to increase public spending and education to fight against the pandemic.
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A congressional investigation into officials' inability to stop a tuberculosis patient from leaving the country found significant security gaps, heightening concern about vulnerability to potential cases of pandemic flu or smallpox.
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School officials around the country have been scrambling this week after several cases of staph infection, some of which have led to the death of students.
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The virus is expected to emerge again this winter, but an epidemic is unlikely as China is better prepared, health officials say.
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Federal health officials said they were investigating dozens of blood infections in at least two states that have been linked to contaminated medical syringes.