Health experts seek to calm schools over superbug
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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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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 a dozen cases among students and are organizing extensive cleanups of numerous schools.
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FRIDAY, Aug. 20 (HealthDayNews) -- With the start of the school year, parents need to take steps to protect their children from allergy and asthma triggers they may encounter at school.
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Students at a high school in Virginia prepared Thursday for the funeral of a popular classmate, the victim of a deadly drug-resistant strain of bacteria that has turned up in schools across the country recently.
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The government is launching a proactive fight to tackle MRSA and other hospital infections.
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Fairfax County health officials warned principals at all county public schools to be on the lookout for students or staff with symptoms of whooping cough.
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Health officials released a warning to all Fairfax county schools Friday to watch for signs of whooping Cough amongst school children after several students
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Government says it is nearing its aim of halving the number of cases of the MRSA superbug, but opposition parties accuse ministers of manipulating targets
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In three years' time, blood stream infections with the hospital superbug MRSA will have halved, the government will say.
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Health officials are hoping college students will add one more thing to their back-to-school list: a meningitis vaccination.
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In three years time, blood stream infections with the hospital superbug MRSA will have halved, the government will say.
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By Dennis O'Brien, The Baltimore Sun  Dec. 14--With the flu season expected to peak next month, researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine reported today that vaccinating schoolchildren against the disease reduces not only their risk but that of their families as well.
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Two suspected cases of E.coli are confirmed by public health officials at a school in the Bridgend area.
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For parents worried about how to treat children's colds now that some medicines have been called into question, the answer may be a dose of salt water.
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TRENTON, N.J. - Flesh-eating bacteria cases, fatal pneumonia and life-threatening heart infections suddenly are popping up around the country, striking healthy people and stunning their doctors...
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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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Health experts are trying to move the nation&#39;s battle of the bulge to an important new front: the schools. Schools need to be more active in teaching heart