News tagged with 'Virus'

With 314 million pool visits this summer, the CDC finds 8 of 13 had to be closed for code violations involving improper PH and disinfectant levels. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers advice before you get into the pool this summer.

The Celebrity Mercury returns to port one day early because of another outbreak of norovirus, the third outbreak on the same ship.

A poll says 51 percent of Americans would fly when sick with the swine flu or seasonal influenza because of the stiff penalties imposed by the airlines for changing plans.

XMRV is a retrovirus that embeds in the body and is linked to both chronic fatigue syndrome and prostate cancer. Whether it is a cause or a correlation remains a mystery.

A 14-year-old girl in Britain died shortly after receiving her HPV vaccine Monday. Drug maker, GlaxoSmithKline has isolated that batch of the Cervarix vaccine. Cervarix is a direct competitor to Gardasil (Merck) and is seeking U.S. approval. The Gardasil vaccine is also thought to be responsible for a number of deaths.

Expect to see a back-to-school campaign for the Gardasil cervical cancer shot as sales for the Merck vaccine have been disappointing.

Head and neck cancer patients who test positive for the human papillomavirus (HPV) have a better survival rate than patients that don’t have the virus, according to new research published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research.

The World Health Organization says the swine flu is "unstoppable" and that healthcare workers should be the first ones vaccinated. This influenza is different from seasonal flu in that it affects young people, the severely obese, and adults and strikes deep in the lungs and drug makers are receiving millions to formulate a vaccine. 

A study in the British medical journal, The Lancet, finds the Gardasil rival drug for human papillomavirus, Cervarix is effective against five viruses, two most common virus types that cause HPV or human papillomavirus as well as three of the next most common cervical cancer causers. The study was funded by the vaccine maker, GlaxoSmithKline. 

The World Health Organization has officially raised the swine flu level to its highest - Phase 6, which means it is being transmitted within communities in more than two countries. The increased alert refers to transmission, not severity, though mutations to the virus are expected. 

Besides washing your hands, earting well, exercising and drinking lots of water, Dr. Susan Lark, who incorporates clinical nutrition with preventive medicine, says there are immunity boosters you can use to prevent getting swine flu.

Circumcision reduced cases of herpes and human papillomavirus in Ugandan men, say researchers from Johns Hopkins. Circumcision is already known to reduce HIV infections. Researchers are calling for higher circumcision rates. 

Holland America may not have to compensate passengers who were onboard a cruise where norovirus broke out. More than 100 passengers were sickened and the cruise out of San Diego curtailed while the sick stayed in their cabins.

16-year-old Ashley Ryburn received one Gardasil vaccine along with a meningitis shot. Then she received another Gardasil shot, her second in the three-series vaccines.  She is now disabled, in pain, faints, has numb legs, not at all the athlete she used to be. 

The Gardasil vaccine, intended to prevent cervical cancer in girls and women shows strong signs of preventing genital warts in men, according to a new study funded by Merck, who manufactures Gardasil.