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Sierra Leone says cholera killed 66 since January
Sierra Leone's health ministry says a cholera outbreak has sickened more than 3,800 and killed 66 people since January. The ministry says it is "very ...
Tech in NH hepatitis C case worked in Mich., Md.
A traveling hospital technician accused of causing a hepatitis C outbreak in New Hampshire previously worked in Maryland and Michigan health care ...
How to protect kids from whooping cough outbreaks
Whooping cough was once a terrible menace to U.S. children, with hundreds of thousands of cases reported annually. Then a vaccine drove cases down, ...
Hospital worker charged in NH hepatitis C outbreak
A hospital worker accused of injecting himself with stolen drugs and contaminating syringes that infected at least 30 patients with hepatitis C was ...
No new cholera deaths in Cuba
Cuba's Health Ministry on Saturday reported 158 cases of cholera, nearly three times as many as previously disclosed, but said there were no new ...
Colorado cantaloupes return; growers push safety
Nearly a year after the nation's deadliest foodborne illness outbreak in more than two decades, Colorado cantaloupes are back in supermarkets.
Potent form of common child illness deadly in Asia
Tran Minh Giang has spent more than a third of his young life in a Vietnamese hospital, and it could be many months more before he can go home.
Cuba scrambles to fight rare cholera outbreak
Authorities in eastern Cuba are in full prevention mode to contain a rare cholera outbreak amid fears that it may have spread to the capital, ...