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Hawaii Investigates Dengue Fever Cases
By not in system - AOL NewsHealth officials in Hawaii are concerned about an outbreak of dengue fever after four cases were confirmed in Oahu. Three members of the same family and their neighbor in Pearl City became infected with the disease, according to Hawaii News Now. Dengue fever is a viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes in tropical and subtropical regions. Officials said results on 12 other possible cases are still pending in Oahu. The state Department of Health issued an alert about the disease late last month, after the first two cases were confirmed. Sponsored Links The first person to be diagnosed was ...
9 Dead After IV Infections at 6 Ala. Hospitals
By not in system - AOL NewsMONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Nine Alabama hospital patients who were treated with intravenous feeding bags contaminated with bacteria have died and the maker has pulled the product off the market, state health officials said Tuesday. Ten others who got the nutrient treatments that are delivered directly from the plastic bags into the bloodstream through IV tubes also were sickened by the outbreak of serratia marcescens bacteria, health officials said. All the patients were critically ill before receiving the IVs and officials have not definitively tied the deaths to the outbreak at six hospitals, ...
Horrific US Medical Experiments Come to Light
By not in system - AOL NewsATLANTA -- Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. Such experiments included giving hepatitis to mental patients in Connecticut, squirting a pandemic flu virus up the noses of prisoners in Maryland, and injecting cancer cells into chronically ill people at a New York hospital. Much of this horrific history is 40 to 80 years old, but it is the backdrop for a meeting in Washington this week by a presidential bioethics commission. The meeting was triggered by the government's apology last fall for federal ...
Traveler May Have Spread Measles in 5 US Airports
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsPublic health officials are scrambling to reach airline passengers and staff who may have had contact with a woman infected with measles who passed through as many as five U.S. airports last week. The New Mexico woman was on a transatlantic flight from London to Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 20. Over the next few days, she's believed to have passed through airports in Baltimore, Denver, Albuquerque and San Diego. New Mexico authorities refused to identify the woman, but described her as a 27-year-old who had never been vaccinated for measles as a child. Her ...
Playboy Mansion Party Guests Sickened; 5 Facts About Legionellosis
By Greg Robillard - AOL NewsIt's not the disease you'd expect to pick up at the Playboy Mansion. According to the Los Angeles Department of Health, the mysterious illness that sickened at least 170 people who attended a fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion on Feb. 3 is legionellosis. The Health Department has yet to confirm that the Playboy Mansion is the locus of the outbreak, however, as all the attendees who have fallen ill were also together at a conference in Santa Monica, Calif. Still, some guests of the event say they suspected that fumes from a smoke machine used at Hugh Hefner's famous pad made them ill. With ...
Health Officials Probe Reports of Mass Illness After Playboy Mansion Event
By not in system - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES - Health officials on Saturday were investigating complaints of respiratory illnesses that a media report said affected dozens of people after a fundraiser at the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles that was part of a larger conference. The Department of Public Health issued a statement Saturday saying only that it was investigating a suspected respiratory infection outbreak among attendees of a conference on the west side of Los Angeles County. The Los Angeles Times said there were reports that dozens of people were sickened after the event at the L.A. mansion, but neither the ...
More Veterans Exposed to Infections at VA Facilities
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsMore veterans may have been exposed to serious infections such as HIV and hepatitis at VA facilities because of inadequately cleaned equipment. The Veterans Affairs Department has identified 12 more veterans who may have received colonoscopies with unsanitary equipment at a VA hospital in in Miami, officials said. In 2009, VA officials there notified 2,400 war veterans who could have been exposed while undergoing the routine procedure at the hospital since 2004, according to The Miami Herald, which first reported the additional exposures. VA spokeswoman Mary Kay Hollingsworth said in a ...
Officials Confirm 3 Cases of Cholera in NYC
By not in system - AOL NewsNEW YORK - New York City officials have confirmed that three New Yorkers contracted cholera while in the Dominican Republic for a wedding. The Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, where thousands have died from the disease. A medical epidemiologist for the city Department of Health and Mental Hygiene told The New York Times Saturday that all three people who were infected last month have recovered. Dr. Sharon Balter says the city typically sees an average of one cholera case per year. City health officials are now working with the Centers for Disease Control and ...
Gingerbread Houses Recalled in 22 States
By not in system - AOL NewsNow that Christmas is over, were you thinking about taking a bite out of that festively decorated gingerbread house that's lingering among your holiday decorations? Check where you bought it first. Gingerbread houses made by Rolf's Patisserie have been recalled in 22 states by Whole Foods Market, the company announced, part of a larger recall of desserts from the Lincolnwood, Ill., baker, NPR reported. Products produced by Rolf's Patisserie have been connected to several outbreaks of Staphylococcus aureus food poisoning. All of the contaminated products were made after Nov. 1. The Illinois ...
Pope: Condoms Can Be Justified in Some Cases
By not in system - AOL NewsVATICAN CITY (Nov. 20) -- Pope Benedict XVI says in a new book that condoms can be justified for male prostitutes seeking to stop the spread of HIV, a stunning comment for a church criticized for its opposition to condoms and for a pontiff who has blamed them for making the AIDS crisis worse. The pope made the comments in a book-length interview with a German journalist, "Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and the Signs of the Times," which is being released Tuesday. The Vatican newspaper ran excerpts on Saturday. Church teaching has long opposed condoms because they are a form of ...
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