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‘Retreat’ takes a minimalist approach to the virus film by isolating it on a secluded island. It’s available on DVD Feb. 21.
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Bean sprouts had recently been named as a possible source of the E. Coli outbreak in Germany, but lab tests that came back Monday say otherwise.
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The death toll in Germany from E. Coli in cucumbers has risen to 14, with over 300 others seriously sickened. Health officials only expect it to get worse.
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Around 45 people have died as a result of the yellow fever outbreak that struck in nine districts in northern Uganda, with another 178 people infected with the disease.
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Haiti is in urgent need of supplies, nurses and doctors to slow the rapidly increasing death toll from a raging cholera epidemic that international aid operations are struggling to control, the United Nations' top humanitarian official said.
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More than 18,000 people have been stricken with cholera and other diarrhoel diseases in Ethiopia during the past three weeks. Acute Watery Diarrhoea has been reported from Addis Ababa.
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According to a recently published report Swine flu is four times more likely to send Blacks and Hispanics to the hospital than Whites. The findings are believed to be the first published that detail a racial or ethnic breakdown of swine flu’s impact.
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A Tamiflu-resistant strain of the H1N1 swine flu virus that had been discovered in Japan and in Denmark has been identified in a San Francisco teenager, marking an important milestone in the virus' evolution.
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What is killing young adults in Mexico and putting hundreds more in the hospital? A new flu-like illness has killed 20 people so far.
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A North Bay, Ontario health official has confirmed that the number of people who are sick due to e.coli poisoning has risen to 159.
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Outbreak Headlines
National food chain identified in October outbreak investigation.
The Health Protection Agency declares a measles outbreak on Merseyside as six people require hospital treatment.
 Health officials are warning there has been an outbreak of whooping cough in the Hope area of the Fraser Valley, east of Vancouver.
 An outbreak of syphilis in New Brunswick that has seen the number of cases rise tenfold in the last three years could get worse, a provincial health official warns.
 A lunch catering service is being investigated by Ottawa Public Health as the possible cause of a salmonella outbreak that has affected 16 children and more cases are expected.
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T.J. Kirn, M.J. Lafferty, C.M.P Sandoe and R.K. Taylor
Scanning electron microscope image of Vibrio cholerae bacteria, which infect the digestive system.; Zeiss DSM 962 SEM. From the research: T.J. Kirn, M.J. Lafferty, C.M.P Sandoe and R.K. Taylor, 2000, "Delineation of pilin domains required for bacterial association into microcolonies and intestinal colonization", Molecular Microbiology, Vol. 35(4):896-910.
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