It causes cryptosporidiosis, which can leave healthy adults suffering from "profuse, watery diarrhea " for as long as three weeks . Symptoms in children, pregnant women , and those with compromised immune systems can be worse. The water becomes contaminated when an infected swimmer transmits the parasite through lingering residue on their person or a diarrheal incident-which, gross as it may be... [Full Article...]
The risk criteria may broaden with smoking, a weak immune system, birth control pills, starting sex at a young age, etc. "Even though the vaccine has only been available in the United Kingdom for girls for nine years, it is very exciting that decreases in pre-cancerous lesions in the cervix and in genital warts have already been seen". [Full Article...]
Offspring of survivor cockroaches were gaining extensive resistance to the poisons, including new classes of insecticide that they hadn't even been exposed to yet. According to Scharf, not only would roaches that survived a treatment be "essentially immune" to that type of insecticide class in the future-their offspring would be too. [Full Article...]
The researchers used data from two nationally representative surveys: the 2015 National Alcohol's Harm to Others Survey, which contained information on 2,830 adults, and the 2015 National Alcohol Survey, which contained data on 7,071 adults. [Full Article...]
She died only two weeks after her fall. Lynn Fleming's death follows the case of a 12-year-old girl from IN, who scraped her toe and contracted the same rare bacteria while vacationing last month IN a Florida Panhandle beach. She was rushed to the emergency room and underwent several operations to try to save her leg. Necrotizing fasciitis, sometimes called flesh-eating bacteria, is a rare bu... [Full Article...]
The number of summertime parasitic outbreaks has been increasing steadily every year since 2009, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . In pools, cryptosporidium can enter the body when a swimmer swallows contaminated water. Most victims pick up the infection from recreational waters, such as swimming pools and water parks. [Full Article...]
Her devastated family are warning about the dangers of the bacteria. A couple days later, Fleming went to the doctor and received a tetanus shot. At first Lynn dismissed her injury as a "small cut", but her condition quickly spiralled out of control. [Full Article...]
Symptoms can be even worse for children, elderly adults, pregnant women or those with compromised immune systems. Though it's nearly never fatal, one death has been reported since 2009, according to the CDC. The number of cases increased by an average of 12.8% annually between 2009 and 2017. It's also worth noting the one death from cryptosporidiosis came in the sole instance in which the para... [Full Article...]
It causes cryptosporidiosis, which can leave healthy adults suffering from "profuse, watery diarrhea " for as long as three weeks . Symptoms in children, pregnant women , and those with compromised immune systems can be worse. The water becomes contaminated when an infected swimmer transmits the parasite through lingering residue on their person or a diarrheal incident-which, gross as it may be... [Full Article...]
The risk criteria may broaden with smoking, a weak immune system, birth control pills, starting sex at a young age, etc. "Even though the vaccine has only been available in the United Kingdom for girls for nine years, it is very exciting that decreases in pre-cancerous lesions in the cervix and in genital warts have already been seen". [Full Article...]
Offspring of survivor cockroaches were gaining extensive resistance to the poisons, including new classes of insecticide that they hadn't even been exposed to yet. According to Scharf, not only would roaches that survived a treatment be "essentially immune" to that type of insecticide class in the future-their offspring would be too. [Full Article...]
The researchers used data from two nationally representative surveys: the 2015 National Alcohol's Harm to Others Survey, which contained information on 2,830 adults, and the 2015 National Alcohol Survey, which contained data on 7,071 adults. [Full Article...]
She died only two weeks after her fall. Lynn Fleming's death follows the case of a 12-year-old girl from IN, who scraped her toe and contracted the same rare bacteria while vacationing last month IN a Florida Panhandle beach. She was rushed to the emergency room and underwent several operations to try to save her leg. Necrotizing fasciitis, sometimes called flesh-eating bacteria, is a rare bu... [Full Article...]
The number of summertime parasitic outbreaks has been increasing steadily every year since 2009, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . In pools, cryptosporidium can enter the body when a swimmer swallows contaminated water. Most victims pick up the infection from recreational waters, such as swimming pools and water parks. [Full Article...]
Her devastated family are warning about the dangers of the bacteria. A couple days later, Fleming went to the doctor and received a tetanus shot. At first Lynn dismissed her injury as a "small cut", but her condition quickly spiralled out of control. [Full Article...]