 | | | | Infectious Diseases Headlines | | | MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- The World Health Organization warned Monday that the battle against the age-old scourge of leprosy is not yet over, with more than 5,000 new cases reported yearly in the Western Pacific, where the disease was declared eliminated in 1991.
(Chicago Tribune) -- Oh, to be born in 2012.
NEW DELHI (AP) -- Efforts by India and the European Union to strengthen trade are threatening India's ability to deliver life-saving medicines to the world's poorest, analysts say as the two sides resume protracted negotiations on a free-trade pact.
(Canadian Press) -- To publish and what to publish? Those will be the questions on the table when the World Health Organization convenes a special meeting next week about controversial bird flu studies.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (South Florida Sun-Sentinel) -- More than 3,000 cruise passengers will have their dream vacations cut short due to a second consecutive outbreak of gastrointestinal illness on board the Crown Princess cruise ship.
VIENNA (AP) -- Vienna's mayor on Tuesday promised compensation for anyone injected with the parasite that causes malaria after two former foster home children claimed to have been given such shots in the 1960s.
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Chile declared a public health alert Monday over a hantavirus outbreak that has killed three people and infected at least 10 others.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania health officials say the number of people stricken with illness after consuming raw milk from the same dairy has risen to 35 in four states.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Researchers who spent three years dragging sheets of fabric through the woods to snag ticks have created a detailed map they claim could improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Fifteen teenage girls report a mysterious outbreak of spasms, tics and seizures in upstate New York. But tests find nothing physically wrong.
BANGKOK (dpa) -- The number of dengue fever cases fell by more than a third last month in Thailand after last year's floods interrupted the breeding cycle of the mosquito that carries it, health officials said Friday.
LONDON (AP) -- Malaria may be killing around twice as many people as experts previously thought, and it could also be hitting older children and adults -- long considered the least susceptible -- a new study suggests.
LONDON (AP) -- The World Health Organization says the highest levels ever of drug-resistant tuberculosis have been found in Russia and Moldova.
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- A Vietnamese official on Thursday confirmed the country's second human death from bird flu in less than a month, after it went nearly two years with no reported fatalities.
CHICAGO (Chicago Tribune) -- After a hiatus lasting more than a decade, Naval Station Great Lakes is once again vaccinating its recruits against a virus that causes upper respiratory infections, but some experts say the immunization probably wouldn't be that helpful outside the barracks.
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico's federal health secretary says swine flu cases in January have surpassed the number for all of 2011, a year when the virus barely appeared worldwide.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Zimbabwean authorities say they are making sure poor townships get uninterrupted water supplies after a typhoid outbreak, leaving wealthy areas with reduced supplies.
HARARE,Zimbabwe (AP) -- An independent doctors' group in Zimbabwe is reporting 800 cases of the bacterial disease typhoid in a recent outbreak.
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Health officials in Las Vegas said Monday that the bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease was found in water samples at the Luxor hotel-casino this month after a guest died of the form of pneumonia.
CHICAGO (AP) -- About 16 million Americans have oral HPV, a sexually transmitted virus more commonly linked with cervical cancer that also can cause mouth cancer, according to the first nationwide estimate.
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) -- Bill Gates rode to the rescue of a beleaguered health fund Thursday by pledging $750 million to fight three of world's killer diseases.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Imagine having the feeling that tiny bugs are crawling on your body, that you have oozing sores and mysterious fibers sprouting from your skin. Sound like a horror movie? Well, at one point several years ago, government doctors were getting up to 20 calls a day from people saying they had such symptoms.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- A scientist at the centre of a raging controversy over bird flu transmission studies has broken his silence, in the process revealing information about his study that has not been made public previously.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- California did not suffer a single death from whooping cough in 2011, the first year since 1991 that there have been no fatalities in the state from the highly contagious illness, health officials said Tuesday.
(The Orange County Register, Calif.) -- Do you have a cold or the flu?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists who created easier-to-spread versions of the deadly bird flu said Friday they're temporarily halting more research, as international specialists debate what should happen next.
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) -- Vietnam on Thursday confirmed its first human death from bird flu in nearly two years, a day after neighboring Cambodia also logged its first fatality this year as new cases of the H5N1 virus are reported in Asia and the Middle East.
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- The head of a global health fund on Monday urged Ukraine to step up its efforts to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Europe's largest.
(Associated Pres) -- Indian doctors have reported the country's first cases of "totally drug-resistant tuberculosis," a long-feared and virtually untreatable form of the killer lung disease.
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