News tagged with 'Infectious Disease'

Tuburculosis is spread through the air, so there is an ongoing public health concern since a medical resident showed up positive who had been a three Chicago area hospitals. 

The rate of dangerous staph infections has dropped dramatically in U.S. hospital intensive-care units, a new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control Prevention finds.

The benefits of visiting the gym far outweigh the risk, you just need to use some common-sense and follow a few steps to keep yourself protected from bacteria, infection and fungus that lurks at most gyms - in the showers and on the equipment.

Removing drug-resistant staph from the noses of wrestling camp counselors cut the rate of potentially deadly skin infections by more than 50 percent. Researchers tested coaches' and counselors' noses for MRSA and found about half were carriers. The nose is a place for the bacteria to colonize since it prefers a wet and warm environment.

MRSA has taken the life of an otherwise healthy 18-year old football player in Orlando. Warning letters are going out to parents not to panic. MRSA frequently responds to other stronger antibiotics, just not methicillin.

Comparing it to a "spider's web of suppliers and distributors," an FDA official says the agency may never be able to pinpoint the exact source of the salmonella Saintpaul contamination that has sickened 383, including a cluster of nine people who reportedly ate at a Chicago area chain restaurant.

As the August 8th date nears for the Summer Olympics in Beijing, the Chinese capital is reporting its first cases and deaths of hand, foot, mouth disease in children.  Generally adults can ward off the viral infection but it can turn to encephalitis in adults and in children.

As China prepared for the summer olympics, health officials are being called on the carpet for being too tight lipped about a viral infection that has killed 28 children and is spreading across the country.