Articles filed under Health Crises
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Bird flu found at Tyson Foods chicken supplierMar 06, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Tens of thousands of chickens have been destroyed at a Tennessee chicken farm due to a bird flu outbreak and 30 other farms within a six-mile radius have...
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New mumps case in Barrington has no known ties to schoolMar 06, 2017 12:00 am - The number of confirmed cases of mumps at Barrington High School remains at two, one short of what the Lake County Health Department considers an outbreak, but health of...
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Arlington Heights school cleaned after report of possible mumps caseMar 04, 2017 12:00 am - Maintenance workers subjected South Middle School in Arlington Heights to a thorough cleaning Friday after reports that a student may have contracted mumps. Workers cle...
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Barrington mumps cases on verge of an outbreakMar 03, 2017 12:00 am - A cluster of mumps cases in Barrington schools is on the verge of an outbreak as health officials continue to identify more suspected cases of the disease. Lake County ...
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Ebola worker dies after childbirth as husband blames stigmaMar 02, 2017 6:00 am - MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - Salome Karwah survived Ebola after it killed both her parents and seven other relatives, then returned to her clinic to help countless others as...
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Risk & reward: Stopping a cancer drug to see if you're curedMar 02, 2017 6:00 am - Imagine you had a life-threatening cancer that a wonder drug had kept in remission for years. Would you risk quitting? Thousands of people with a blood cancer called chr...
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Gene therapy lets a French teen dodge sickle cell diseaseMar 01, 2017 6:00 am - A French teen who was given gene therapy for sickle cell disease more than two years ago now has enough properly working red blood cells to dodge the effects of the diso...
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Those with blurry close-up vision get some new helpMar 01, 2017 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Squinting while texting? Always losing your reading glasses? An eye implant that takes about 10 minutes to put in place is the newest in a list of surg...
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First step to help preserved organs survive the deep freezeMar 01, 2017 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Deep-freezing donated organs might one day help improve the transplant supply but scientists must first figure out how to thaw the delicate tissue with...
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UN sees bird flu changes but calls risk of people spread lowMar 01, 2017 6:00 am - LONDON (AP) - The World Health Organization says it has noticed changes in the bird flu virus now spreading in China, but says the risk of the disease spreading easily b...