Viral meningitis outbreak sickens 6 students
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An unusually virulent virus could be behind an outbreak of meningitis that led to the hospitalization of six seventh-grade football players in Cy-Fair ISD, school officials and infectious-disease experts said Wednesday.
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Students who fell ill at summer conference are cleared to go home as university administrators work to make sure there will not be a repeat outbreak.
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Homeless people packed shelters, students got a day off from school, and drivers had to take their time as millions of people bundled up to meet subzero temperatures tied to at least six deaths.
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HONG KONG  - Hong Kong health chiefs are investigating an outbreak of respiratory illness at a hospital involving 19 children that left one girl dead, the government revealed.
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Malaysia has detected a new outbreak of bird flu in a village in north-east Kelantan state, the sixth to be hit by the deadly virus in a month, officials announced today.
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A total of 335 Chinese school students have been taken ill in three separate food poisoning incidents in recent days due to poor sanitation in the nation's education system.
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Pupils at a school are offered antibiotics after three pupils contract a bug that can cause meningitis.
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Hong Kong&#39;s government has ordered schools to step up precautions against influenza as another child came down with a mysterious respiratory infection.
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Nearly 100 people, many of them children, have been sent to hospital after an outbreak of encephalitis B in southwest China, state media said Sunday.
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Students at a high school in Virginia prepared Thursday for the funeral of a popular classmate, the victim of a deadly drug-resistant strain of bacteria that has turned up in schools across the country recently.
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Pupils at a primary school are offered  bird flu medicine as a child from the school is believed to have the virus.
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Health reports show it would have been difficult for Desert Vista High School students to contract bacterial meningitis from a fellow student who is recuperating at an area hospital.
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Children in overcrowded housing are up to 10 times more likely to contract meningitis, a report from charity Shelter reveals.
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China issues emergency orders in response to a meningitis outbreak that has infected 258 people so far.
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Thousands of people in Britain have been sickened by the biggest outbreak of a winter vomiting virus in five years. Doctors estimate that hundreds of thousands of people may be affected by norovirus in the coming days. Dozens of hospital wards across the country have already been closed to try to stop the virus' spread.
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The intensive care unit of a sick children's hospital is closed to new admissions after a bacterium is found.
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NEW YORK  - Ten healthy female students at  a rural, co-ed North Carolina high school had repeated bouts of  seizures, swooning and hyperventilation over a four-month  period in 2002 -- an outbreak that experts are calling an  example of mass hysteria.