MRSA: More Common, Curable, And Easily Prevented Than You Think (The Wayne Independent)
Flu spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics, killing millions of people in pandemic years and hundreds of thousands in non-pandemic years. Three influenza pandemics occurred in the 20th century and killed tens of millions of people, with each of these pandemics being caused by the appearance of a new strain of the virus in humans. Often, these new strains result from the spread of an existing flu virus to humans from other animal species.
MRSA: More Common, Curable, And Easily Prevented Than You Think (The Wayne Independent)
HONESDALE - Supergerm. Killer Bug. Nationwide Epidemic. These and many other terms have been used in recent news stories to describe Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, commonly known as MRSA (pronounced mursa), a small golden bacteria which is responsible for 18,000 deaths a year.
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BioTech Medics, Inc. Announces Reverse Stock Split and Symbol Change (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
BioTech Medics, Inc. [formerly, now ] announces the notice from NASDAQ according to The Exchange Act Rule 10b-17 to approve a reverse stock split and symbol change from BTME to BMCS effective at the open of the stock market today.
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Botswana: Keeping Promises On TB (AllAfrica.com)
Last year in the rural South African town of Tugela Ferry, a deadly outbreak of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) tuberculosis made headlines when it ravaged a hospital ward, killing 52 of 53 people infected.
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Crucell Announces Third Quarter 2007 Results (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Total revenue and other operating income increased by 115% to EUR 62.6 million in the third quarter compared to the same quarter last year, largely driven by increased sales of Quinvaxem(TM) and Inflexal® V.
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Nigeria: Bird Flu - a Danger Tamed By Awareness (AllAfrica.com)
Until recently, Nigerians did not have any cause to panic over a bird disease called Avian Influenza, popularly known as 'Bird Flu' as it was alien to this part of the world. Its impact is devastating as it is capable of killing poultry in millions few hours after striking its.
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State, feds to test game ducks for bird flu (Northwest Florida Daily News)
State and federal biologists will be testing hunter-harvested ducks for avian influenza this year.
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Nigeria: Bird Flu, a Problem in FCT - Zhin (AllAfrica.com)
The executive chairman of Kuje Area Council in the Federal Capital Territory, Hon. Danladi Etsu Zhin, has identified the gradual re-occurrence of avian influenza popularly known as bird flu as it has been noticed in some parts of the country especially in some area councils in FCT as a big problem which needs urgent attention.
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Nigeria: UNICEF/NOA Sensitizes FCT Communities on Bird Flu (AllAfrica.com)
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) in collaboration with UNICEF last Tuesday and Wednesday organized a sensitization workshop for communities in three area councils of AMAC, Kuje and Bwari in the FCT on the avian influenza, popularly called bird flu.
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Government: Vaccines threaten up to 44,000 soldiers (WorldNet Daily)
'This really is like Russian roulette. Spin the chamber and take your shot' A U.S. soldier in Iraq is being punished for refusing an anthrax vaccine that has a questionable safety record and apparently will be drummed out of the service.
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Alternative Health Approaches says fulfilled FDA request (Nutraingredients.com)
10/23/2007 - Alternative Health Approaches says it has complied with FDA's requests following a September warning letter concerning the alleged marketing of its products as drugs.
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MRSA: More Common, Curable, And Easily Prevented Than You Think (The Wayne Independent)
The most famous and lethal outbreak was the so-called Spanish flu pandemic (type A influenza, H1N1 subtype), which lasted from 1918 to 1919. Older estimates say it killed 40–50 million people while current estimates say 50 million to 100 million people worldwide were killed. This pandemic has been described as "the greatest medical holocaust in history" and may have killed as many people as the Black Death. This huge death toll was caused by an extremely high infection rate of up to 50% and the extreme severity of the symptoms, suspected to be caused by cytokine storms. Indeed, symptoms in 1918 were so unusual that initially influenza was misdiagnosed as dengue, cholera, or typhoid. One observer wrote, "One of the most striking of the complications was hemorrhage from mucous membranes, especially from the nose, stomach, and intestine. Bleeding from the ears and petechial hemorrhages in the skin also occurred." The majority of deaths were from bacterial pneumonia, a secondary infection caused by influenza, but the virus also killed people directly, causing massive hemorrhages and edema in the lung.
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