Disease and Condition:
Research and publications on disease and conditions.
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Sep 28th, 2009
The World Rabies Day is a day meant to spread the word about rabies, the oldest and deadliest disease known to mankind. Today is that day.
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Sep 28th, 2009
Arkansas has lost it’s sixth person to the H1N1 flu. Diamauri Hobbs, 6, of Texarkana died yesterday afternoon in a Little Rock hospital.
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Sep 27th, 2009
Scientists have discovered a new chemical compound to destroy bacteria, bringing them closer to developing a new class of antibiotics that can fight so called super bugs. For more than ten years, eradicating drug resistant bacteria has been a challenge.
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Sep 27th, 2009
Ten years ago, Shiloh Pepin was born with a rare birth defect called sirenomelia, mermaid syndrome. Most of these infants die within 72 hours. Shiloh has beaten those odds.
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Sep 26th, 2009
Potentially debilitating Lyme disease doesn’t afflict people everywhere that the ticks harbouring it are found. In 30 years, the tiny blacklegged tick has cut a huge swath through 10 northern states by carrying a bacterial infection now annually afflicting more than 20,000 North Americans.
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Sep 26th, 2009
The State Mosquito Management Program announced that mosquitoes trapped in New Canaan on September 16 tested positive for West Nile virus (WNV).
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Sep 26th, 2009
The Alaska Division of Public Health, Section of Epidemiology, has issued new guidelines on when people should receive the pneumococcal polysaccharide (pneumonia) vaccine.
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Sep 26th, 2009
A University of Chicago researcher died at the Medical Center's Bernard Mitchell Hospital from an infection which may be attributable to a weakened laboratory strain of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that causes the plague.
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Sep 25th, 2009
An unusually high number of animal rabies cases in Missouri has triggered a warning from state health officials, who are urging people to vaccinate pets and seek medical treatment for any animal bite.
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Sep 25th, 2009
Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are environmental organisms found in both water and soil that can cause severe pulmonary (lung) disease in humans.
