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  • 04/02/2013 | Argentina

    Gov't denies Swine Flu outbreak, suggests flu shot before visiting US

    After four people were diagnosed with Swine Flu in a Carmen de Areco hospital, the head of the BA province Health Ministry’s Primary Care office, Luis Crovetto, suggested that people planning on visiting the US should get a flu shot before traveling.

  • 19/12/2012 | World

    'US fungal meningitis outbreak could have been much worse'

    As bad as the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak has been, so far infecting 620 people in 19 states and killing 39 of them, it could have been a lot worse, US health officials said today.

  • 11/01/2013 | World

    Flu reaches epidemic level in US, says CDC

    Influenza has officially reached epidemic proportions in the United States, with 7.3 percent of deaths last week caused by pneumonia and the flu, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today.

  • 12/01/2013 | World

    New York governor declares public health emergency to combat flu

    New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a public health emergency today, giving pharmacists permission to administer flu vaccinations to more people as officials seek to stem the worst flu outbreak in that state in several years.

  • 29/10/2012 | World

    Meningitis outbreak spreads to 19 states

    The deadly meningitis outbreak tied to steroid injections from potentially tainted medications spread to a 19th state with the first case reported in Rhode Island, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

  • 31/10/2012 | World

    Meningitis death toll rises to 29 with fatality in Virginia

    Another patient has died in Virginia after contracting fungal meningitis from potentially tainted steroid injections supplied by a Massachusetts company, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday, bringing the death toll from the outbreak to 29 nationwide.

  • 07/11/2012 | World

    Massachusetts pharmacy board head fired after meningitis outbreak

    Authorities fired the director of the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy after he failed to investigate a complaint against New England Compounding Center, the company at the center of a deadly US meningitis outbreak, state officials said.

  • 16/10/2012 | World

    Feds raid Massachusetts lab tied to meningitis outbreak

    Federal agents raided the Massachusetts pharmacy linked to a meningitis outbreak that has killed 15 people and sickened more than 200 others, federal prosecutors said.

  • 18/10/2012 | World

    CDC says death toll rises to 20 in US meningitis outbreak

    The number of deaths from fungal meningitis linked to potentially contaminated steroid injections has risen to 20 and the outbreak has reached a 16th state, New York, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

  • 20/10/2012 | World

    US says death toll rises to 23 in meningitis outbreak

    The US death toll from fungal meningitis linked to potentially contaminated steroid injections has risen by two to 23, with North Carolina reporting its first death, health officials said today.

  • 06/10/2012 | World

    Deadly meningitis outbreak spreads to eighth US state

    A widening outbreak of fungal meningitis has spread to Minnesota, which reported two cases to become the eighth US state affected, officials said.

  • 09/10/2012 | World

    US meningitis deaths rise, prompting call for tighter drug rules

    A rare US outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to steroid injections has claimed four more lives with Florida the latest state to report at least one death linked to the illness in a widening health scare, authorities said.

  • 15/10/2012 | World

    Meningitis outbreak expands to 15 states with Pennsylvania case

    A fungal meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated steroid injections expanded to 15 states as Pennsylvania reported its first case of the disease that has killed 15 people nationwide.

  • 06/06/2011 | World

    EU may agree aid for farmers hurt by E.coli outbreak

    European Union farm ministers will try tomorrow to agree financial aid for fruit and vegetable producers whose sales have been hit by an E.coli outbreak that has so far claimed at least 22 lives in Europe.

  • 10/06/2011 | World

    E.coli found in bean spout package, German officials say

    German authorities said they detected the deadly E.coli strain in a bean sprout package from the organic farm under in Lower Saxony, which had already been under investigation.

  • 11/06/2011 | World

    German officials see no E.coli fault at organic farm

    Officials investigating an organic farm in northern Germany said today they do not expect to take legal action against it for causing an E.coli outbreak that has killed at least 31 people.

  • 28/01/2012 | Latin America

    Fire kills 26 patients at rehab centre in Peru

    At least 26 people died and twelve were injured today, after a fire broke out in a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre in the district of San Juan de Lurigancho in Lima, the Health minister in Peru, Alberto Tejada informed.

  • 14/07/2012 | Latin America

    Cuba says cholera outbreak not spreading

    Cuba said that a cholera outbreak in eastern Cuba is diminishing and has not spread to other parts of the country.


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