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  • July 2008

    • Brits Warn of Devastating Pandemic

      newser  |  Independent (UK)  |  Jul 21, 08 9:26 AM CDT

      Brits Warn of Devastating Pandemic

      The world is in danger of losing up to 50 million people to an "inevitable" flu pandemic, and global response agencies aren't ready for such a test, the British government warns. A report rates early-warning systems as "poorly coordinated" and calls for an overhaul of the World Health Organization, reports the Independent . More »

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      virus  • World Health Organization  • epidemic  • bird flu  • flu  • pandemic

  • June 2008

    • 24M Americans Diabetic: CDC

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Jun 24, 08 4:39 PM CDT

      24M Americans Diabetic: CDC

      Almost 8% of the US population has diabetes, the government reported today. About 24 million Americans suffer from type-1 or -2 diabetes, an increase of 3 million since 2005, Reuters notes. Another 57 million Americans are pre-diabetic, a condition of insulin insensitivity that predisposes them to type-2 diabetes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. More »

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      obesity  • diabetes  • epidemic  • CDC  • insulin  • type 2 diabetes  • type 1 diabetes

  • May 2008

    • Pandemic Risk Real, Mounting

      newser  |  Reuters  |  May 6, 08 3:55 PM CDT

      Pandemic Risk Real, Mounting

      The danger of a worldwide bird flu epidemic is growing as the virus becomes established in the avian population, Reuters reports. World Health Organization experts today urged all nations to prepare in case the H5N1 virus mutates into a form easily transferable between humans. In birds, the strain has spread across Asia, Africa, and parts of Europe. More »

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      birds  • World Health Organization  • epidemic  • bird flu  • influenza  • H5N1  • pandemic

    • Deadly Virus Hits Kids in China

      newser  |  BBC  |  May 2, 08 8:57 AM CDT

      Deadly Virus Hits Kids in China

      Almost 3,000 children living in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui have been infected with a deadly intestinal virus. At least 21 children have died of Enterovirus 71, a highly contagious malady whose cause remains unknown, reports state-run media. Most of the victims have been children under the age of 6, reports the BBC. More »

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      China  • children  • public health  • epidemic  • SARS  • Enterovirus 71

  • March 2008

    • Scientists Warn Doctors of Syphilis Comeback

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Mar 18, 08 4:14 AM CDT

      Scientists Warn Doctors of Syphilis Comeback

      Health researchers have warned that syphilis is making a comeback, and doctors may not be recognizing the symptoms. Developed countries came closing to wiping out the disease in the '90s, Reuters reports, but infection rates in the US went up last year for the seventh year in a row. A study published in the journal Lancet urges authorities to move fast to educate the public—and doctors—about the disease. More »

    • Screening Isn't Slowing Staph: Study

      newser  |  Chicago Tribune  |  Mar 12, 08 11:09 AM CDT

      Screening Isn't Slowing Staph: Study

      Widespread screening of hospital patients for the drug-resistant staph bacteria MRSA doesn’t appear to reduce the number of infections, a new study finds. Swiss researchers screened more than 10,000 patients for the superbug when they were admitted to the University of Geneva Hospitals. Another 10,000 weren’t tested. The rates of MRSA infections were similar for both groups, the Chicago Tribune reports.  More »

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      infection  • epidemic  • antibiotics  • staph infections  • MRSA  • epidemiology  • JAMA  • drug-resistant bacteria

    • Immune-System Ailments Now an 'Epidemic'

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Mar 4, 08 7:46 PM CST

      Immune-System Ailments Now an 'Epidemic'

      Allergies and immune-system ailments like asthma, lupus, and MS are on the rise—and scientists increasingly blame modern life, the Washington Post reports. Many point to sterile conditions in the US and Western Europe, but pollution, diet, and obesity may also play a role. "We have dramatically changed our lives in the last 50 years," one allergist said. More »

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      health  • epidemic  • immune system  • asthma  • multiple sclerosis  • food allergies

  • February 2008

    • New E. coli Strains Could Spell Epidemic

      newser  |  Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Feb 19, 08 12:57 PM CST

      New E. coli Strains Could Spell Epidemic

      New drug-resistant strains of E. coli have doctors worried that the mutant bacteria could become a superbug to rival MRSA, the drug-resistant form of staphylococcus that kills hundreds hospital patients each year, the Daily Telegraph reports. The spread of the new E.coli strains must be carefully tracked to avoid an epidemic, Canadian scientists write in a new paper. More »

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      epidemic  • E. coli  • MRSA  • food poisoning  • drug-resistant bacteria  • stomach bug

  • January 2008
  • December 2007

    • Cholera Outbreak Grips Baghdad

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Dec 2, 07 7:40 PM CST

      Cholera Outbreak Grips Baghdad

      Cholera cases have spiked in Baghdad since mid-November and will likely soar when rainy season comes, the Guardian reports. Officials fear that the downpours will spread dirty water from war-ravaged sewers and infect more Iraqis, particularly children; about 4,500 cases have already been tallied this year. “We have a catastrophe in Baghdad,” one Iraqi official said. More »

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      Iraq  • Baghdad  • outbreak  • epidemic  • Cholera

  • October 2007

    • AIDS Came to US From Haiti Years Before It Was ID'd: Study

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Oct 30, 07 4:12 AM CDT

      AIDS Came to US From Haiti Years Before It Was ID'd: Study

      The AIDS virus reached America through Haiti, not directly from Africa, and far earlier than has been suspected—the 1960's, not the early 1980's, researchers have discovered. Scientists analyzed 25-year-old blood samples and used what they know of the virus' mutations to construct a rough timeline of the progression of the disease, according to the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . More »

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      United States  • disease  • AIDS  • HIV  • virus  • epidemic  • Haiti

    • Next Up, Locusts: Bird Flu Closes In on Humans

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Oct 5, 07 3:13 PM CDT

      Next Up, Locusts: Bird Flu Closes In on Humans

      A new mutation of bird flu virus H5N1 allows it to survive in humans, which have cooler body temperatures than birds. The virus doesn’t currently transmit between humans, but the ability to survive in our respiratory tract could start an epidemic, researchers warn. "I don't like to scare the public, but it is important to the scientific community to understand what is happening," said one. More »

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      epidemic  • bird flu  • avian flu  • H5N1

  • August 2007
  • July 2007

    • Mice Plague Chinese Countryside

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jul 16, 07 8:13 PM CDT

      Mice Plague Chinese Countryside

      Flooding in central and southern China—the worst in 50 years—is displacing more than thousands of residents: Billions of mice, washed out of their burrows, have swarmed across acres of Chinese farmland, destroying crops and posing serious health hazards to residents. Pest control efforts have been largely ineffective so far, the Washington Post reports. More »

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      China  • agriculture  • flooding  • epidemic  • rats

  • May 2007

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