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APNewsBreak: FDA warns Iowa egg firm over bacteria
A company that promised to clean up Iowa's egg industry after a nationwide salmonella outbreak in 2010 said Friday that a recent government safety ...
Ebola outbreak kills 15 in eastern Congo
An outbreak of the Ebola virus has killed 15 people in northeastern Congo and the local communities are quickly learning how frighteningly deadly the ...
Ebola outbreak spreads in eastern Congo, kills 15
Local authorities in eastern Congo say that the population lack of information on Ebola and the traditional practice of washing corpses before ...
Up to 10,000 Yosemite visitors at risk of virus
Up to 10,000 people who were guests in certain lodging cabins at Yosemite National Park might have been exposed to a deadly mouse-borne virus, park ...
Basics about hantavirus outbreak in Yosemite
Answers to common questions about mice and the hantavirus linked to death of 2 people who visited Yosemite National Park: ___ How common is hantavirus ...
CDC: 103 ill with salmonella tied to mangoes
Federal health officials are investigating a foodborne illness outbreak that has sickened more than 100 people in 16 states and has been associated ...
SW Ind. farm source of some contaminated melons
Health officials say a farm in southwestern Indiana was the source of at least some of the salmonella-contaminated cantaloupe that has made at least ...
Study: Tattoo infections traced to tainted ink
An outbreak of infected tattoos has led to an unlikely source: the ink. With the growing popularity of tattoos, health officials say they are seeing ...
CDC: West Nile outbreak one of largest in US
The current West Nile outbreak is one of the largest in the U.S., with four times the usual number of cases for this time of year, federal health ...
10 people die of suspected Ebola in Congo
The World Health Organization says an outbreak of suspected Ebola in eastern Congo has infected at least 15 people, 10 of whom died. WHO said in a ...
Health safety advocates want melon farm identified
Food safety advocates called on federal officials Tuesday to release the name of an Indiana farm that recalled its cantaloupes amid a salmonella ...
Cholera emergency declared in Sierra Leone
An outbreak of cholera in West Africa has infected more than 13,000 people and killed at least 258 people in Sierra Leone and Guinea, authorities said ...
Indiana melons linked to US salmonella outbreak
Health officials in Indiana and Kentucky say they are investigating farms, distributors and retailers after an outbreak of salmonella that has killed ...
To fight West Nile, Dallas launches aerial defense
The last time Dallas used aerial spraying to curb the mosquito population, Texas' Lyndon Johnson was in the White House, Mission Control in Houston ...
Drought could be a factor in US anthrax cases
Anthrax has killed more than 100 animals on ranches in Colorado and Texas within the past two weeks, and experts say the risk of infection may be ...
Correction: Hepatitis C Outbreak story
In a story Aug. 15 about how a hepatitis C outbreak could boost momentum for federal legislation requiring some types of medical workers to meet ...
Dallas County allows aerial spraying for West Nile
Suffering from the nation's deadliest outbreak of West Nile virus this year, Dallas County authorized aerial spraying of insecticide on Friday for the ...
Clinton's Africa trip: Bees, snow _ and dancing
On an epic journey through Africa, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton braved an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Uganda, escaped a ...
WHO official: Ebola under control in Uganda
Doctors were slow to respond to an outbreak of Ebola in Uganda because symptoms weren't always typical, but a World Health Organization official said ...
6 more Ugandans admitted with possible Ebola
Six more patients suspected to have Ebola have been admitted to the hospital days after investigators confirmed an outbreak of the highly infectious ...
Officials: Ebola breaks out in Uganda
The deadly Ebola virus has killed 14 people in western Uganda this month, Ugandan health officials said on Saturday, ending weeks of speculation about ...
Suspect in hepatitis C outbreak wrote suicide note
A traveling medical technician accused of causing a hepatitis C outbreak in New Hampshire wrote a suicide note saying he "couldn't handle this stress ...
Suspect in hepatitis C outbreak was fired in Ariz.
A dozen hospitals in seven states are scrambling to identify people who might have been infected with hepatitis C by a traveling medical technician ...
More charges expected over NH hepatitis C outbreak
A federal prosecutor said Tuesday he expects to bring more charges against a traveling medical technician accused of infecting 30 patients with ...
Man, 73, sickened in Ohio E. coli outbreak dies
Health officials investigating an E. coli outbreak in southwest Ohio say a 73-year-old man sickened by the bacteria has died. The outbreak began with ...