Tainted Syringes Sicken Dozens
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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.
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A âpoisonous cocktailâ of many drugs can interact in dangerous ways and cause side effects that can be far worse than the diseases they are treating.
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Outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases in northern and southern India left ordinarily overburdened hospitals and clinics swamped with patients Wednesday, and officials reported at least 87 deaths.
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A top Panamanian prosecutor said tests show at least 94 people have died from taking medicine contaminated with diethylene glycol since July 2006 and that 293 more deaths are under investigation.
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ISLAMABAD: The Health Ministry has prepared a draft bill to control the rampant use of syringes in the country. The draft bill will be presented before parliament after the Law Ministry vets it.
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THOUSANDS of people, including 120 in Scotland, have been warned they may have been exposed to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease through contaminated blood products.
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More than twice as many people have fallen ill this year with a strain of bacteria responsible for food poisoning, experts say.
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Health officials say the stomach illness that struck about 60 people last week is likely the same virus that sickened about 100 students at the University of Maryland earlier this month.
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CALGARY -- Hundreds of people were under quarantine last night as fire, police and medical crews investigated a potential viral outbreak at a Calgary homeless shelter.
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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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Health officials said the Brooklyn student had become infected with a virulent, drug-resistant strain of bacteria.
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MINNEAPOLIS - Finals week may be on its way at Augsburg College, but the most pressing question on many minds was: What was in those syringes that a freelancing nurse jabbed into 38 students last week?
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More than 120 people who ate from the same booth at the Taste of Chicago food festival last week became ill, at least nine of them with salmonella poisoning and 10 who were hospitalized, the health department said Thursday.
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Safer syringes could avert 1.3 million deaths a year, especially in poorer countries where 40 percent of all injections involve unsterilized reused needles, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday.
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Thousands of people are to be told they may have been exposed to vCJD through contaminated blood products.
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At least 49 people have died in Leicester hospitals over the last eight months from a superbug, it is revealed.
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Almost 3,000 people have died in the past three years after suffering serious side-effects or allergies to their medicines, official figures show.