Cryptosporidium outbreak hits the West
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Nearly 230 Idaho residents have been sickened by a waterborne parasite this year, along with hundreds of others across the Rocky Mountain West, health officials said. The cryptosporidium outbreak has reached record numbers, Idaho Department of Health and Welfare spokesman Tom Shanahan said, and has federal officials looking at the role water parks and public pools play in spreading the diarrhea-causing parasite.
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As national estimates focus on an increase in serious infections caused by an antibiotic-resistant germ, officials in the Washington region have identified more than 18 cases among students and are organizing extensive cleanups of numerous schools.
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Five years ago, West Nile virus seemed like a major public health threat to the Washington region, with nearly 100 human cases and 11 deaths. But the disease has receded rapidly here since then, even as it remains a problem elsewhere in the United States.
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SAN FRANCISCO/OXNARD, California  - California's farming industry is girding for another potential black eye after a second outbreak this year of a potentially deadly E. coli strain linked to its crops.
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More than 250 people have reported becoming sick after eating at an Olive Garden restaurant in Indianapolis, Indiana, a county health official said on Friday, a day after an outbreak of E.coli at Taco Bell restaurants was declared over.
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Scientists are now eyeing dust clouds as possible suspects in transcontinental spread of diseases.
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Bodies, dirty water spreading disease. Medical supplies have started to run out and panicked residents are fighting for provisions.
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Diarrhoea cases were reported to be rapidly increasing yesterday in the tsunami disaster zone and the United Nations warned that there could be only 48 hours to prevent the major outbreak of waterborne diseases.
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More than 250 people have reported  becoming sick after eating at an Olive Garden restaurant in  Indianapolis, Indiana, a county health official said on Friday,  a day after an outbreak of E.coli at Taco Bell restaurants was  declared over.
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As national estimates focus on an increase in serious infections caused by an antibiotic-resistant germ, officials in the Washington region have identified more than a dozen cases among students and are organizing extensive cleanups of numerous schools.
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Text of report by Kazakh newspaper Megapolis on 4 September  The level of water in the Shardara reservoir has gone down below the critical level for the first time in many years. Doctors are concerned about the possibility of break-out of infectious diseases in South Kazakhstan Region.
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Bee Medical Writer. California and two other Western states have borne the brunt of the West Nile virus so far this year. California, Arizona and Colorado account for more than 90 percent
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NEW YORK Polio has spread to two more African countries that had been freed of the crippling disease and threatens to become a major epidemic across west and central Africa, the World Health Organization said.
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Tens of thousands of survivors are at risk from diseases spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and crowding.
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A polio epidemic spreading from Nigeria  throughout West and Central Africa has begun to come under  control, but more funds are needed to wipe out the disease in  2005, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
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Chagas disease is common in Latin America and increasingly prevalent in the U.S. blood supply.
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A drug-resistant strain of potentially deadly bacteria has moved beyond the borders of U.S. hospitals and is being transmitted among gay men during sex, researchers said on Monday.