Palm Beach County Health Department reported it’s first locally acquired case of dengue this morning, 13 Oct. 2011. While eight other cases have been reported
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Since the beginning of 2011, more than 85,000 cases of cholera and 2,466 resulting deaths have been reported in West and Central Africa. According to
This Monday, 10 Oct. 2011, doctors from the United Kingdom reported that gonorrhea has developed an increased resistance to the antibiotic currently used to treat
Three H5N1 deaths in Indonesia bring the country’s avian influenza death count to 149. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported today the death of a
The Spanish National Research Council’s National Center for Biotechnology recently released details from the phase one clinical trial of the MVA-B vaccine against HIV, the
One hundred and thirty countries submitted reports of leprosy to the World Health Organization (WHO) at start of 2011, with 228,474 new cases
This past Monday, the Nobel Foundation announced the winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine. The winners have been honored for their discoveries in immunology
Yesterday, Oct. 5 2011, the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reported three guests at an Ocean City, Md. hotel were hospitalized and
Ten years later, the fall of the World Trade Center may have slowly dissipated into a distant memory for some Americans, but for many individuals,
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports 72 cases and 13 deaths due to listeriosis. Health officials are investigating three more deaths that