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Backyard chickens linked to salmonella outbreak, CDC warns
The infections, which began in February of this year, have led to 34 people being hospitalized. The CDC investigation is ongoing, and more updates will be provided when available. The CDC says that people can get sick with salmonella infections from touching live poultry or the environment that the poultry lives in. Anyone who comes in contact with live poultry is warned to immediately wash th... [Full Article...]
Abrupt Link Between Hotter Temperature and Suicidal Rates
The study's authors predict that "unmitigated climate change " could result in between 9,000 and 40,000 more suicides in the US and Mexico over the next three decades, "representing a change in suicide rates comparable to the estimated impact of economic recessions, suicide prevention programs or gun restriction laws". [Full Article...]
Viagra trial on pregnant women stopped after 11 babies die
Viagra, which dilates the blood vessels, is well-known as a treatment for erectile dysfunction in men and it is also prescribed for people with high blood pressure. But the opposite happened. "I am shocked. The last thing you want is to harm patients", gynecologist and leader of the research Wessel Ganzevoort told Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant . [Full Article...]
Simpler, one-dose treatment to prevent malaria relapse OK'd
The world has waited decades for a new medicine to counter P. vivax malaria relapse. The tropical disease priority review voucher programme is created to encourage development of new drugs and biological products for prevention and treatment of certain neglected tropical diseases affecting millions of people throughout the world. [Full Article...]
Rabid fox on the loose after attacks in Westchester
Coakley says her mother went to pick up the fox to throw it farther away, and that it bit her when she picked him up. According to CBS 2 News , doctors said that her injuries could have been much worse but that her clothing helped protect her skin. [Full Article...]
‘Complacency’ may lead to HIV resurgence, warn experts
The 2014 Eurovision song victor, an Austrian drag queen who announced in April she was HIV-positive, used the opening ceremony to question why millions of people still have no access to life-saving drugs. As long as people have access to treatment, "they can end up virally suppressed, unable to transmit the virus, and (to) carry on with pursuing their life passions and realizing their dreams", Con... [Full Article...]
Man dies from bacterial infection after eating raw oysters
A Florida man who ate raw oysters has died after contracting an infection from Vibrio vulnificus bacteria, according to local health officials. Vibrio can also be found in raw or under-cooked seafood. The 71-year-old died just two days after eating the oysters. While crabbing at Matt's Landing on the Maurice River, Angel Perez was exposed to the flesh-eating bacteria. [Full Article...]
AHS cautions about potential of West Nile virus
The Maryland Department of Health announced the first confirmed case of West Nile virus in Maryland this year. However, about 20 percent of people who are infectd will develop a fever with other symptoms such as headache, body aches, joint pains, vomiting, diarrhea or rash. [Full Article...]