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First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 4 reports

Treating Cholera Patients in Northern Niger

Mangaïzé (right) and Ayorou (left), where MSF has opened two cholera treatment centers.Cholera has broken out in northern Niger, in an area now inhabited by large numbers of Malian refugees who fled conflict in their homeland.Doctors Without Borders/Médecins ... [Published MSF-USA - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Médecins Sans Frontières, Niger, Cholera, Ayorou (Niger)

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 10 reports

University of Hong Kong

China's Bird Flu Goes Airborne

As if China was not suffering enough from a slumping economy, the South China Morning Post now reports that the H7N9 'bird flu' virus that has infected 131 people (and killed 36) so far can be transmitted not only by close contact but by airborne exposure ... [Published Zero Hedge - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Bird Flu, Virus, H7N9, University of Hong Kong, China

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 3 reports

No evidence of new virus in respiratory illness outbreak, says Public Health

A cluster of respiratory illnesses that initially baffled physicians in southeast Alabama appear to have been caused by a combination of known viruses and bacterium, and not any new diseases."I'm pleased to report that after our investigation, after getting ... [Published Individual.com - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Don Williamson, Respiratory Disease, Virus, Public Health, Patient

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 5 reports

Cold-Loving Bacteria Offer Clues for Life on Mars

Tanya Lewis, LiveScience Staff WriterEllesmere Island, Canada, is home to cold-loving bacteria that live in permafrost.CREDIT: Joel Barker, courtesy of Ohio State University.A microbe discovered in the Canadian high Arctic thrives at the coldest temperature ... [Published LiveScience.com - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Bacteria, Permafrost, Microbe

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 5 reports

Taliban

Pakistan: Second child contracts polio in Pakistan's Waziristan

Source: Agence France-PresseCountry: Pakistan 05/23/2013 17:03 GMT ISLAMABAD, May 23, 2013 (AFP) - A second child has contracted polio in a restive Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border after the Taliban banned vaccinations there nearly a year ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Polio, Pakistan, North Waziristan, Taliban, Vaccine

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 10 hours ago - 9 reports

Dog Owner Homes Are Bacteria-Ridden â And...

Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe OnlineMan’s best friend could be his immune system’s worst enemy, suggests a new report in the journal PLOS ONE. Or maybe not.According to a recently published study from researchers at North Carolina State ... [Published Red Orbit - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Bacteria, Microorganism, Microbe

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 12 hours ago - 6 reports

Montrealers face day 2 of city-wide boil water advisory

MONTREAL - More than a million Montrealers face another day of water boiling after officials issued the largest boil water advisory in the city’s history.Click here for a glimpse of how citizens reacted on social media to the city’s lack of access to ... [Published Global News Canada - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Montreal, Sediment, Filtration

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 3 reports

UK water utilities: plugging cash leaks

UK water utilities are appealing because of their regulated, consistent returns. The issue is squaring those returns with customer expectations ... [Published FT.com - Energy - 12 hours ago]

Entities: United Kingdom

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 16 hours ago - 4 reports

Don't put your health at risk in the great outdoors

They may be cute, but it doesn’t mean they’re germ-free – that’s the advice to families looking forward to getting out and about in the summer.It’s one of the safety tips highlighted by Pubic Health England, in a message from Dr Autilia Newton of Public ... [Published Lincolnshire Today - 16 hours ago]

Entities: England, Public Health, Carbon Monoxide, Escherichia Coli (E. Coli)

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 17 hours ago - 9 reports

World: What to expect from the WHA

Source: Global Polio Eradication InitiativeCountry: World Health ministers set to consider plan to secure polio-free world by 2018 Twenty-five years ago, the World Health Assembly passed a resolution calling for the end of polio – and so the Global Polio ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 23 2013]

Entities: Polio, Poliovirus, World Health Assembly, Strategic Plan

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 8 reports

Chorizo may be to blame for Salmonella Outbreak at Firefly

Officials with the Southern Nevada Health District have finally pinned down the source that's quite possibly responsible for sickening hundreds of people who dined at Firefly Restaurant on Paradise in late April.A newly issued report shows cooked chorizo ... [Published KTNV - May 23 2013]

Entities: Salmonella, Epidemiology, Bacteria

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 10 reports

China’s Bird Flu Has Been Conquered—at Least For Now

China appears to have beaten back the latest strain of bird flu, according to global health authorities, but at no small cost. A total of 36 people have died, and UN experts said on Tuesday that the economy lost $6.5 billion as a result of the outbre ... [Published Nextgov.com - May 22 2013]

Entities: Bird Flu, China, Virus, Global Health

Quotes

" We also found that the virus can infect pigs , which was not previously known" said Dr Maria Zhu Huachen, a research assistantassistant professor at HKU's School of Public Health

China's Bird Flu Goes Airborne [Published Zero Hedge - 1 hour ago]

"It is a system that captures the water and slowly percolates it so the trees and everything can be irrigated" Rager said

Shocked by water bill? How to lower it [Published ABC15.com - 1 hour ago]

"So I think what these data would suggest is that it is pretty unlikely that this virus came from pigs. And by implication the dead pigs in Shanghai were probably not related to this story" said Peiris

H7N9 virus closer to being human transmissible than other bird flu viruses [Published Huffington Post Canada - 1 hour ago]

"They followed the law, and they did exactly what they should have done" he said

No evidence of new virus in respiratory illness outbreak, says Public Health [Published Individual.com - 2 hours ago]

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Treating Cholera Patients in Northern Niger [Published MSF-USA - 1 hour ago]
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Blogs

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China's Bird Flu Goes Airborne [Published Zero Hedge - 1 hour ago] As if China was not suffering enough from a slumping economy, the South China Morning Post now reports that the H7N9 'bird flu' virus that has infected 131 people (and killed 36) so far can be transmitted not only by close contact but by airborne exposure ...
China's Bird Flu Goes Airborne [Published Zero Hedge - 2 hours ago] As if China was not suffering enough from a slumping economy, the South China Morning Post now reports that the H7N9 'bird flu' virus that has infected 131 people (and killed 36) so far can be transmitted not only by close contact but by airborne ...
MSF: Treating cholera patients in northern Niger [Published H5N1 - 3 hours ago] Via MSF: Treating Cholera Patients in Northern Niger. Excerpt:Cholera has broken out in northern Niger, in an area now inhabited by large numbers of Malian refugees who fled conflict in their homeland.Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ...
Containing cholera in Niger [Published SocioLingo Africa - 9 hours ago] Containing cholera in Niger NIAMEY, 22 May (IRIN) – Cholera has struck 248 people in Ayorou in the Tillabéry Region of northwestern Niger, killing six, two of them Malian refugees. Among the...[[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full ...
Is drug resistant bacteria a major public healt... [Published KevinMD.com - 16 hours ago] Infectious disease is the most hyperbolic of all medical fields, at least when the media gets ahold of such. Right now we are to fear a new avian influenza virus . Previously there was another avian influenza strain whose outbreak threatened the ...

Audio/Video

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Flesh eating bacteria victim's new hands [Published CNN.com - Video - May 18 2013]
Rep. Barbara Lee honors nurses week and global ... [Published Rep. Barbara Lee - YouTube Channel - May 09 2013]
VIDEO: Would you eat bugs instead of meat? [Published BBC News Video - Health - May 06 2013]
VIDEO: Will bird flu fears hit Taiwan tourism? [Published BBC News Video - Business - Apr 30 2013]
VIDEO: China bird flu: Vigilance urged [Published BBC News Video - World - Apr 29 2013]

Press Releases

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