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Food Safety Chief Executed for Bribery in China

...gust last year about 40 people in Beijing contract meningitis after eating partially cooked snails at a chain of...gust last year about 40 people in Beijing contract meningitis after eating partially cooked snails at a chain of restaurants. Three months later 5,000 ducks had...

Study of Bacterial Pathogen may Give Insight to Cancer Development

... pathogen, causing abortions in pregnant women and meningitis in those with compromised immune systems, resulting in about a 25 per cent mortality rate. The findings are significant with a view to understanding and controlling the spread of bacteria that are a cause of potentially fatal food poisoning. Ac...

Meningitis Shots for Teens

A bacterial meningitis case at the University of Cincinnati has resulted ...ecause of their more social lifestyle. Bacterial meningitis is a rare infection that can prove fatal. The infection can cause seizures, brain damage, memory los...

Routine Hib Vaccination Could Save Innumerable Asian Children

...neumonia cases and approximately 90 percent of Hib meningitis cases. The researchers said that similar impact w...evidence of the actual burden of Hib pneumonia and meningitis as has been shown in other studies in Chile and Indonesia, that is that the percentage of pneumonia ...

Uttar Pradesh Struggles to Contain Japanese Encephalitis

...irus are seemingly mild, but the disease can cause meningitis and inflammation of the heart in newborn babies. India's worst encephalitis outbreak in 2005 claimed over 1500 lives. According to doctors, the death rate due to Japanese Encephalitis is 28-56 percent. The deadly Japanese Encephalitis fever is ...

Hib Vaccination can Prevent Pneumonia

...ening pneumonia cases and approximately 90% of Hib meningitis cases. A similar impact would be expected in other...mortality rates have long known that pneumonia and meningitis are a significant concern, many assumed that Hib was not a major cause. This vaccine study builds...

Mumps Breaks Out In Canada

... but it can also lead to serious illnesses such as meningitis and, in rare cases, sterility in men. The disease is spread through coughing, sneezing, sharing drinks and kissing. It can take up to seven days for symptoms to appear. Vaccination is the best prevention for mumps, but doctors say young adults in t...

Ontario Court Awards Compensation To Paralyzed Worker

...re severe form of the disease with encephalitis or meningitis and other neurological syndromes, including flaccid muscle paralysis. In 2002, more than 390 cases of West Nile virus were reported in Ontario, 19 of whom died. The Ontario Ministry of Health notes that only four of those deaths can be "directly a...

Potential Of Epilepsy Surgeries Are Not Fully Harnessed Say Brain Specialists

...y after injury to brain cells such as head trauma, meningitis or a mini-stroke. Up to 30 percent of patients have incurable epilepsy: Medicines do not prevent all their seizures, else they cause intolerable side effects. Many are candidates for surgery- where surgeons cut out the abnormal brain tissue that sp...

Improved Meningitis Vaccine for Africa Expected to End Deadly Scourge

...P) today released new data on the performance of a meningitis vaccine in West African children, suggesting that...eventually slash the incidence of epidemics in the meningitis belt, as 21 affected nations of sub-Saharan Africa are collectively known. The vaccine is expected t...

First Case of West Nile Virus Death in Madison County

...d has various forms like West Nile encephalitis or meningitis - the most severe forms of the disease. These severe forms of the virus, transferred primarily through mosquito bites, affect the nervous system and can lead to paralysis, coma or death. West Nile is most prevalent in mid- to late summer but can oc...

Own Up and Pay Up, Nigerian Party Tells Pfizer

...Kano following an outbreak of measles, cholera and meningitis that led to the deaths of more than 3,000 people. The allegations are that Pfizer administered a test antibiotic called Trovan without authorisation or parental consent among children at a field hospital in the heart of the epidemic. Eleven of the ...

Minister Flays Mission After Indian’s Death in Maldive

...s of Indians, after a Kerala man who suffered from meningitis died in the Maldives. The minister's comments ca...nt to the Maldives in May 2006, was suffering from meningitis and was in hospital for more than a week. He died Sunday evening. According to official sources, ...

Cochlear Implantation Increases Meningitis Risk

...es the risk of bacterial infections that can cause meningitis in recipients//, thus confirming what physicians h...ses the need to educate the public on the need for meningitis vaccinations in potential cochlear implant recipients. The study involved making cochleostomy inci...

Vaccine Helps Reduce Frequent Ear Infections

...rotect children from potentially deadly strains of meningitis and other pneumococcal diseases such as ear infect...cidence of serious infections such as pneumococcal meningitis in both children and adults, as well as the number of children developing frequent ear infections.” ...

West African Meningitis Outbreak Sparks Warning from UN Aid Agencies

...ng up their efforts to combat a deadly outbreak of meningitis across West Africa, warning that the highly// contagious disease could spread even more rapidly in coming months during the traditional annual migration period within the region. Since the start of the year 798 people have died and 8,557 cases have...

Scotland’s Parents Still a Little Wary of MMR Shot

...influenza type B and 97 per cent immunized against meningitis C. Conservative health spokeswoman Dr Nanette Milne was reported arguing that the 95% percent target may not be achieved for some considerable time. "Given the number of parents refusing to have their children vaccinated with MMR, and the wor...

Meningitis in Infancy Erodes Academic Success

One in four teenagers who had meningitis during infancy will not pass any GCSE exams, revea...s England and Wales, 461 of whom had had bacterial meningitis during their first year of life. The children were all taking part in a long term national study o...

More US Children to Be Covered by Health Insurance

...he vaccinations they need against diseases such as meningitis and measles, which can damage their brains and even kill them, against polio, against whooping cough and ear infections, and more. The care they get in hospitals is sometimes less complete than it should be. They are less likely to have a regular phy...

Hearing Loss in Children Leads to Substantial Meningitis Risk

...rs determined the likelihood of a child developing meningitis after losing their hearing is five times that of other children; their research indicates that factor could in fact be as high as 12 times that of other children. The study’s authors say their research provides evidence of an association of hearin...

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