Record Number of Pool-Related Diseases in U.S.
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The number of Americans who got sick  from swimming or bathing in tainted pools, spas and other  facilities jumped 21 percent to a record high during 2001 and  2002, the government said on Thursday.
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A dangerous, drug-resistant staph germ may be infecting as many as 5 percent of hospital and nursing home patients, according to a comprehensive study.
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The December Journal of Environmental Health Perspectives reports that children who spend a lot of time around indoor pools may breathe excessive amounts of compounds that contribute to asthma.
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A large number of people  between the ages of 14 and 39 years have chlamydia, a sexually  transmitted disease, a new report indicates, while gonorrhea,  another STD, is less prevalent.
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About 1.2 million people in countries hard hit by AIDS are receiving life-extending drugs thanks to two major U.S. and international funds, double from a year ago, but many millions more need help, the funds said on Friday.
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The number of sexually transmitted chlamydia infections reported in the United States rose more than 5 percent last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday.
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A once-rare drug-resistant germ now appears to cause more than half of all skin infections treated in U.S. emergency rooms, say researchers who documented the superbug's startling spread in the general population.
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As many as 75,000 people may have drunk water contaminated by dry cleaning fluid at the U.S. Marine base at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.
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An "increasing pool" of people in the UK are living with HIV and Aids, official statistics show.
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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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Floridians are being urged to drain  standing pools of water to cut the risk of an outbreak of West  Nile or other mosquito-borne disease in the wake of Hurricane  Charley, an official with the state health department said on  Thursday.
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FRIDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDayNews) -- A long-term study of the health and development of children in the United States will include about 100,000 children and their families in 96 counties in 36 states.
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A rare sexually transmitted disease that is spreading among gay and bisexual men in Europe could be poised to surface in the United States, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.
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Nearly 230 Idaho residents have been sickened by a waterborne parasite this year, along with hundreds of others across the Rocky Mountain West, health officials said. The cryptosporidium outbreak has reached record numbers, Idaho Department of Health and Welfare spokesman Tom Shanahan said, and has federal officials looking at the role water parks and public pools play in spreading the diarrhea-causing parasite.
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Tens of thousands of tsunami survivors are at risk from diseases spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and crowding.
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A strain of a common bug with properties linked to increased virulence has become predominant in several US hospitals, prompting researchers to suggest it may be responsible for the sharp increase in cases and severity of disease in parts of the United
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LincolnâSix new cases of West Nile virus have been reported to the Nebraska Health and Human Services System, bringing the total number reported so far this year to 17.