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The flu season in the United States often begins in October and November. Most of the time flu activity peaks between December and March and can last as late as May. This means we should be thinking about getting our annual flu shots.
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CDC's director, Dr. Tom Frieden announced on Tuesday that the agency was just about out of money to fight the Zika virus, just hours before Florida reported three new home-grown cases of the virus.
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September 2016 will mark 15 years since the terror attacks on U.S. soil on September 11, 2001, but thousands of people are still feeling the effects of that day on their health.
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In one week's time, the number of cases of Hepatitis A in Hawaii has jumped from 135 to 168 confirmed cases, and the source of the disease still remains elusive.
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If you were to Google "Strategic National Stockpile" (SNS), you would only find 1,500 web pages, a small number of entries, seeing it is so secret. More to the point - very few people have ever heard of the SNS. What is it and what purpose does it serve?
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has received a sanction due to several weaknesses relating to its handling of pathogens and infected material.
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Superbugs are causing an increasing number of infections in U.S. hospitals, according to a new study. Pathogenic bacteria are responsible for one in seven infections.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced they are investigating 14 cases of the Zika virus in U.S. women who possibly contracted the virus through sexual contact with partners who had traveled to Zika- affected countries.
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On Tuesday, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) issued an update on the status of the ongoing investigation into the Listeria outbreak associated with Dole packaged salads from its Springfield, Ohio plant.
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The E. coli outbreak that sickened dozens of customers who had eaten at Chipotle Mexican Grill in Oregon and Washington has now made its way to three more states.
This brings the total up to six states that have been affected.
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The U.S. government is considering legislation that would ban smoking on public housing land nationwide, and this includes homes, communal areas, and administrative offices within these areas.
The ban could affect about one million homes.
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As the number of illnesses continues to grow, Oregon and Washington state health officials, along with the CDC and FDA continue their investigation into the source of the E. coli outbreak that has now sickened 41 people.
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Even thinking about American politics is ugly. Its insanity is its defining feature. The country is no longer functioning on basic levels. The rise of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump reflects more polarization in both parties.
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Stewart Parnell, the former CEO of the now-defunct Peanut Company of America, was sentenced Monday to 28 years in prison for his role in a deadly salmonella outbreak that killed nine people and sickened hundreds between 2008 and 2009.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an update on the Salmonella outbreak linked to field cucumbers. There are now two deaths reported, 71 hospitalizations and 341 confirmed cases in 30 states.
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A Salmonella outbreak linked to cucumbers grown in Mexico has killed one person and sickened 300 more in 27 states, hospitalizing 53 of them, since July 3, 2015, according to an alert posted by the CDC on Friday.
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In a troubling update issued Friday evening, the CDC is now saying the strain of Salmonella I 4,[5],12:i:- linked to pork in the Washington state food-borne illness outbreak is multi-drug resistant.
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Washington state and local health officials are partnering to investigate a number of cases and clusters of Salmonella infections that have popped up in eight counties recently. The cases all appear to be linked to eating pork.
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a multi-media review of the agency’s role in dealing with the Ebola crisis in Africa.
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Fueled by the widespread use of prescription opiate-based pain killers in the U.S., heroin use and the number of deaths attributed to heroin overdose has surged over the past decade.
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While the chances of a person getting the avian flu in the U.S. still remain very low, the CDC, using an abundance of caution, is now saying that people who come into close contact with infected birds may be at a higher risk of infection.
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A recent Dutch study provides more evidence that males derive indirect benefits when girls are immunized against human papilloma virus (HPV), a sexually transmitted disease.
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When smokers want to quit, they suddenly realize they have a lot of time on their hands. Also, they might need a healthy distraction from the addiction that took hold of their lives for so long.
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A new report into biosafety has found the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) oversight of such matters “inconsistent and insufficient at multiple levels.”
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Through social media, popular media are holding control of health decisions, despite the information that the president and CDC try to provide.
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Several employees at Disneyland, Anaheim, California's iconic themepark have been diagnosed with measles, health officials confirmed on Tuesday. This brings the total number of cases to 18 in the county.
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Drug overdose deaths have been increasing for the last 20 or more years in the United States, but a troublesome statistic is creating a great deal of concern for health officials. For the third year in a row, heroin deaths have jumped again.
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A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lab appears to have mistakenly transferred the wrong Ebola samples — ones that may have contained live virus — to another CDC lab.
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The H3N2 flu virus seems to be the primary strain going around this season. The CDC has already confirmed that this year's flu vaccine is not as effective because the H3N2 virus has already mutated, warning us this flu season may be severe.
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One year on from the first Ebola case in Guinea, the U.S. CDC raises a new warning about the potential spread of the virus and notes that more needs to be done to slow down the spread disease.
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This is an adult beef tapeworm, Humans become infected by ingesting raw or undercooked infected meat. In the human intestine, the cysticercus develops over 2 mo. into an adult tapeworm, which can survive for years, attaching to, and residing in the small intestine. CDC
CDC: You are the one who manages your diabetes day by day. Talk
to your doctor about how you can best care for your diabetes
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CDC map of reported cases of West Nile virus CDC
Polymicrobic biofilm grown on a stainless steel surface in a laboratory potable water biofilm reactor for 14 days, then stained with 4,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) and examined by epifluorescence microscopy. Bar, 20 µm. Ricardo Murga and Rodney Donlan / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Swollen and stiff hands of a 70-year-old woman with post-chikungunya rheumatoid arthritis. CDC
From 2004 to 2011 there has been a nearly five-fold increase in the number of states reporting cases to the Listeria Initiative. CDC
Health care worker at the Lawton Indian Hospital, in Oklahoma gets his flu shot. CDC
U. S. map for Weekly Influenza Activity, produced by the CDC.
Week ending December 28, 2013. CDC
Colonies of pathogenic bacteria growing on an agar culture plate - Salmonella enterica (serovar typhimurium) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Photo of stockpile in transport to CDC's Strategic National Stockpile.... CDC
A CDC map of reported Bubonic Plague cases. Center for Disease Control
According to the CDC, more than 9,000 healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are caused by CRE each year. Courtesy CDC
Every 9 ½ minutes another person in America becomes infected with HIV. Officials from the White House, Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continue their national campaign, Act Against AIDS, which highlights this alarming statistic and aims to combat complacency about the HIV/AIDS crisis in the United States. CDC
We always hope, when eating in a restaurant, that the food-handlers have washed their hands. CDC
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A CDC scientist uses a pipette to transfer H7N9 virus into vials for sharing with partner laboratories for public health research purposes. CDC
According to the CDC, almost 48 million people will come down with a food-borne illness this year. YouTube
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