TB & Outbreaks Week articles from September 2000

TB & Outbreaks Week archives from September 2000

Harvard Model: Pediatric TB Prevention Begins with Treating Children.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Harvard University School of Public Health researchers say that the most effective way to prevent tuberculosis disease and death among children in the United States is not by treating adults, but by directly...

Routine Screening Misses Microbes Causing Diarrhea in Jordanian Children.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Many different types of microorganisms cause diarrhea in children in northern Jordan, but these microbes are being missed in routine screening tests, according to researchers at the country's Yarmouk...

Short-Course Antimicrobial Therapy May be Alternative to Traditional 10-Day Therapy.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Antomicrobial therapy of five or fewer days' duration appears to equally or more effective than the traditional 10 to 14-day course in patients over age two, University of Minnesota pharmacologists say. ...

Assays Used in Combination Best for Differentiating Murine and Epidemic Typhus.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Findings from research conducted in France at the University Mediterranee show that by using indirect fluorescent antibody assay (IFA) in combination with Western blotting techniques, typhus caused by...

Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction Isolates and Identifies Mycobacteria Species.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- There are many commercial assay systems that can quickly isolate mycobacteria. However, according to researchers at Chonnam University Medical School, identifying mycobacteria becomes a more difficult...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis Undergoes Stress Test.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers have used sigma factor mutant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to study the effects of stress on mycobacterial resistance. "In previous work, we characterized the differential expression...

Indoor Molds: Harmful or Harmless?
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Those greenish black patches growing on your bathroom walls may look innocent, but they could be guilty of potential health risks, according to Bruce Jarvis, a University of Maryland chemistry professor. ...

Discontinuing MAC Prophylaxis Seems Safe in HIV Patients Taking HAART.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in Switzerland find that discontinuing primary prophylaxis against disseminated Mycobacterium avium infection (MAC) in HIV infected patients who are responding well to highly active antiretroviral...

Emerging Tick-Transmitted Disease Reviewed.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- A report in a recent issue of Clinical Microbiology Reviews discussed babesiosis, a parasitic infection of the blood. "Babesiosis is an emerging, tick-transmitted zoonotic disease caused by hematotropic...

Study Shows Possible Cancer Link Between Virus and Fiber.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- A possible cancer-causing link has been found between asbestos fibers and a monkey virus that infects some people in the United States. Loyola University Medical Center researchers published the finding in...

Phase I Trial Toxin-Binding Polymer Completed.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- GelTex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (GELX), Waltham, Massachusetts, announced the completion of a Phase I trial of GT160-246, a non-antibiotic toxin-binding polymer that is being evaluated for the treatment and...

Dual Epidemic is Developing in Russia.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers report that there is a dual epidemic of HIV and tuberculosis (TB) developing in northwest Russia. A. Vasyliev and colleagues from the Research Institute of Phthysiopulmonology, Russia,...

HTLV-II Discovery Might Shed Light on Behavior of HIV.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Scientists in Brazil report they are studying a case of a rare brain disorder caused by human T-lymphotropic virus II (HTLV-II), a retrovirus closely related to HIV, which could lead to a better understanding...

Disease Kills 135 in Thailand Since January.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- At least 135 people in Thailand have died from leptospirosis since January 2000, a disease often spread through rat urine and which has hit northern and northeastern regions of the country after floods, a...

WHO Says Better Spraying Needed to Halt Aircraft-Bound Mosquitoes.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- The World Health Organization urged governments and airlines on August 21, 2000, to be alert to the danger of malarial mosquitoes hitching a ride as air travel to far-flung destinations becomes more...

Human Parainfluenza Virus Type 3 Used to Make Vaccine.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- A mucosal vaccine has been developed to immunize infants against measles and human parainfluenza virus. "Recombinant human parainfluenza virus type 3 (PIV3) was used as a vector to express the major...

Meningococcal Disease Claiming Lives in Ethiopia.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- The World Health Organization reports that as of August 17, 2000, a total of 855 cases and 19 deaths have been reported in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, since the beginning of the current outbreak of meningococcal...

Immediate Response to Skin Test is Good Predictor of Anaphylaxis.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in France determined that immediate response to skin tests is a good predictor of an anaphylactic reaction to pneumococcal vaccine in children. "Pneumococcal vaccines are usually...

Researchers Say Shots Often Overused.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Rabies shots are often overused in treating people bitten by animals, researchers report. About 40,000 shots are given annually in the United States, and a recent study suggests they may be unnecessary in...

Booster Doses of Hepatitis A Vaccine Effective Even When Given 56 Months Apart.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in Switzerland have shown that two doses of a virosome-formulated hepatitis A virus (HAV) vaccine were still effective even if the doses were administered 18 to 56 months apart. "In order to...

Collaboration Will Develop High-Speed Diagnostic Tests of Multi-Drug Resistant TB.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Sequenom, Inc. (SQNM), San Diego, California, announced a collaboration with the Public Health Research Institute (PHRI) in New York City to develop high-speed diagnostic tests to identify multidrug-resistant...

Patent License Received on Oral Vaccine.
September 5, 2000... 2000 SEP 5 - (NewsRx.com) -- Avant Immunotherapeutics, Inc. (AVAN), Needham, Massachusetts, announced the signing of a cross-licensing agreement with Megan Health Inc. for exclusive rights to a patent portfolio supportive of Avant's...

Mycobacterium bovis in Milk of African Cattle Presents Risk to Humans.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- A government project that is promoting the use of milk and milk products from local cows may be unwittingly placing humans at risk for acquiring tuberculosis, according to a study reported by researchers at...

Tuberculosis Seen in Some Pediatric Patients with Liver Transplants.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- Tuberculosis has been found in some pediatric patients after they have received liver transplants. A new study proposes that prospective pediatric liver transplant patients should be carefully screened...

Urine Tests Can Quickly Detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- Non-radioactive DNA hybridization-polymerase chain reaction is a quick and sensitive way to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis in patients who are suspected of having urinary tuberculosis, scientists report in...

NIH Researchers Discover Parasite 'Feeding Channel'.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers have found pore-like holes in the membranes of red blood cells infected by the deadliest form of the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. P....

Rapid Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay Detects Group B Strep Disease Prior to Delivery.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- In recent years, medical professionals have encouraged pregnant women who are at risk for the presence of group B Streptococcus to be screened for this microbe prior to delivery so that preventive antibiotics...

Could Chlamydia pneumoniae be Linked to Degenerative Brain Disease?
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- A study presented recently at the World Alzheimer's Congress 2000 most likely left conference attendees with more questions than answers. The study, presented by researchers in Canada, found that...

Human Hemoglobin Improves Mycobacterium tuberculosis Growth in Medium.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- Additional evidence that human hemoglobin can enhance the growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in culture was reported at the American Society for Microbiology Conference on Tuberculosis in New York, New...

FDA Approves Ciprofloxacin for Post-Exposure Use.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Cipro (ciprofloxacin) for post-exposure inhalational anthrax. This type of exposure would most likely occur during a bioterrorist attack. This...

Cases Confirmed in 21 States.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- Results of DNA and blood tests obtained by scientists at North Carolina State University's College of Veterinary Medicine and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have confirmed cases of...

Research Defines Differences Between Signs of Salmonella and Viral Hepatitis.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- Salmonella hepatitis and viral hepatitis may have similar clinical manifestations at first glance, but according to research conducted in Turkey at the Dicle University Medical School, there are some...

Water Alone Prevents Transfer of Hepatitis A to Lettuce in Canadian Study.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- Carriers of the hepatitis A virus can reduce the presence of this virus on their hands by doing something as simple as rinsing their hands with water, according to a study carried out in Canada by government...

WHO: Nearly Half of Deaths in Developing Countries Due to Communicable Disease.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- Close to half the deaths in developing countries are due to infectious diseases, of which AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria are the biggest killers, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). These...

CDC Study Reports Genetic Variation in Lassa Virus Strains.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- Genetic diversity prevails in Lassa virus strains and these variations probably came about as a function of geography instead of time, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers have...

Legionella Bacteria Found in Maryland Hospital.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- Officials at St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, Maryland, banned showers and distributed bottled water to patients August 25, 2000, after an inspection of the hospital's hot water system revealed the presence...

Microarray Product for Entire Plasmodium falciparum Genome Released.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- Operon Technologies Inc., Alameda, California, announced plans to release a set of arrayable oligonucleotides for the entire Plasmodium falciparum malaria genome in response to surging global interest in...

Gates Foundation Awards $40 Million for Research.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded US$40 million August 28, 2000, to Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, and the University of Maryland for development of a new measles vaccine that...

Malaria and Waterborne Disease Kill 70 in India's Northeast.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- Malaria and waterborne diseases have killed 70 people and sickened 600 in the northeastern Indian state of Assam since floods and monsoon rains ravaged much of the area this month, an official said on August...

FDA Approves Expansion of Tripedia Use in DTP Immunization Series.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- Aventis Pasteur Inc., Swiftwater, Pennsylvania, said that it received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to market Tripedia (Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Acellular Pertussis Vaccine...

Harvard Awards Grant to Control Multidrug-Resistant Disease Worldwide.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it will issue a nearly $45 million grant to Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, for the creation of a collaborative partnership that will...

New Bacillus Calmette-Guerin-Based Vaccines Under Development.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in the United Kingdom evaluated a new generation of vaccines against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) based on bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) auxotrophic mutants in an animal model. "Despite...

Israeli Man Dies of Virus-Related Complications.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- An 84-year-old man in Jerusalem, Israel, died the week of August 27, 2000, of complications from the West Nile virus, health officials said. This is the same virus that hit New York this summer and last....

Mosquito Complaints, Worries Over Disease Higher in North Carolina.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- A bad mosquito season in North Carolina had people slapping their arms and legs more than usual in August and environmental officials working to reduce bites and the threat of disease. "Our mosquitoes get...

WHO Reports Epidemic Widening in Liberia.
September 12, 2000... 2000 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com) -- A yellow fever epidemic is gathering pace in Liberia, with at least 79 suspected cases now detected, the World Health Organization said August 29, 2000. "As we suspected... the epidemic is spreading,"...

Chickenpox Immunization Confirmed Effective in Adults.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- The chickenpox (varicella) vaccine is highly effective in protecting adults from serious disease, and immunization is recommended for all adults who have never had chickenpox, according to information...

Soaps Containing Potentially Harmful Antibacterial Agents Commonly Available in U.S.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- More than 75% of all liquid hand soaps and nearly 30% of bar soaps for sale in the U.S. contain antibacterial agents, according to information presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases...

Long-Term Cognitive Effects May Follow Infection.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Patients in a long-term follow-up study were found to suffer from many psychometric deficits after being acutely infected with bacterial meningitis, scientists report. S. Merkelbach, a researcher at the...

El Nino Cycles Linked to Outbreaks.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- About 11 months after the start of an El Nino event in the equatorial Pacific, hospitals thousands of miles away in Bangladesh can expect a surge of cholera cases, according to the first mathematical model to...

Epidemiology Model Suggests Warming Trends Won't Induce Malaria Spread.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Will malaria spread into more temperate latitudes if global climate grows warmer? A new model of the predicted spread of malaria in light of global warming suggests that the northern latitudes still may...

Fatty Acids Influence Macrophage Activity Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Free fatty acids work in concert with substances called reactive nitrogen intermediates to influence the action of macrophages against Mycobacterium tuberculosis, according to researchers in Japan. ...

Endogenous Gamma Interferon is Protective Against Blood-Stage Plasmodium chabaudi.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Endogenous gamma interferon (IFN-gamma) is necessary for the development of host protective immunity against blood-stage Plasmodium chabaudi malaria, researchers in Canada report. "The role of endogenous...

Canadian Study Examines Antibiotic Efficacy Against Hospital Pathogens.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Several pathogens that can be found in the hospital environment continue to respond to major antibiotics while other microbes do not, researchers in Canada report in the International Journal of Antimicrobial...

CDC Traces Infectious Bacteria to Potting Soil.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- At least two people in the western United States are believed to have contracted Legionnaires' disease from potting soil. These are the first such cases ever reported in the U.S., the U.S. Centers for...

Minnesota Family Treated for Disease, Officials Say No Public Health Risk.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Six members of a Minnesota family were treated after eating meat from a cow that had anthrax, health officials said on September 8, 2000. The Minnesota Department of Health didn't provide information on...

Discontinuation Did Not Increase Risk of TB and Meningitis in China.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Discontinuation of the bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine did not increase the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) and meningitis in the Shun-yi county of China, researchers in that country reported. "In...

Research Paves the Way for Faster, Better, Cheaper Probing Method.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers at Northwestern University, Illinois, have combined gold nanoparticles and DNA in a novel way to form tiny probes capable of DNA detection that is more accurate and less expensive than conventional...

Pew Commission Urges Protection from Chronic Diseases.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- The Pew Environmental Health Commission at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health called on the U.S. Congress and the White House to protect Americans from chronic diseases - the number one cause of death...

Technology Allows Researchers to Match Hepatitis E Strains in 1983 Outbreak.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- The development of new technologies has enabled scientists at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center to identify hepatitis E virus isolates from an outbreak in Namibia that had been stored since 1983. ...

Study: Lack of Evidence Prohibits Definitive Links to Illness.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- There is insufficient evidence to link the chronic illnesses suffered by some Gulf War veterans to a specific cause, concludes a study by the U.S. Institute of Medicine. The agency studied the toxic nerve...

DNA-Based Flu Vaccine Raises Protective Immunity; Could be Model for Other Antiviral Vaccines.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Scientists at the Vaccine Research Center of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, have successfully engineered and tested a single-dose, DNA-based influenza vaccine in mice that could serve as a template for...

Drug Therapy Agreements and Clinical Study Results Announced.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Biota Holdings Limited (BTA), Melbourne, Australia, announced that it has signed a Heads of Agreement granting Glaxo Wellcome rights to develop and market worldwide a new influenza drug based on inhibition of...

New Drug Available in U.S. for Travelers.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Malarone(tm), which recently received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval, is now available in pharmacies. It is the first new malaria drug in the United States in more than 10 years and represents...

U.S. Navy Begins Additional DNA Vaccine Trial.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Bioject Medical Technologies Inc. (BJCT), Portland, Oregon, announced that the U.S. Naval Medical Research Center has begun a clinical study of a DNA-based malaria vaccine. The DNA-based malaria vaccine...

Vaccination Program Produces 85% Fall in Cases.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- New figures from the U.K.'s Public Health Laboratory Service show that the meningitis C immunization program continues to have a big impact on this extremely serious disease and has produced an 85% reduction...

Vaccine Can Reduce Acute Episodes in Children.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Decision Resources, Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts, announced the publication of a study titled "Otitis Media." Otitis media, defined as inflammation or infection of the middle ear, is one of the most...

Cellular 'Vehicle' that Transports Pneumonia Discovered.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Pneumococcal disease is the most prevalent invasive disease of children in terms of both deaths and life- threatening complications. One such pneumococcal disease, pneumonia, kills 3.7 million children...

New Compound is Effective Against RSV in Lab Experiments.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection can be an unpleasant nuisance in adults; however, in infants and young children, this virus can cause significant disease and can even be deadly. Researchers at...

Immunoglobulin G Test Efficiently Diagnoses Syphilis in Serum.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- Researchers in the United States evaluated the Bio-Rad Syphilis immunoglobulin G (IgG) test for its efficacy in serologically diagnosing syphilis. "The performance of the Bio-Rad Syphilis IgG EIA [enzyme...

DNA Therapeutic Vaccine Tested in Cornell Mouse Model.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- A therapeutic DNA vaccine against Mycobacterium tuberculosis was effective in reducing reactivation of tuberculosis in the Cornell mouse model, researchers in the United Kingdom reported. "The standard...

Rare Disease Hits Massachusetts Island.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- U.S. health officials are investigating a cluster of cases of the rare disease tularemia on Martha's Vineyard, the island off Massachusetts known as a vacation haven for president Bill Clinton and other...

Most Chickenpox Vaccine Complications Found to be Minor.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- The majority of adverse events associated with varicella vaccine, used to prevent chickenpox, are not serious, according to an article in the September 13, 2000, issue of The Journal of the American Medical...

U.S. Army Asked to Fight Potential Outbreak.
September 19, 2000... 2000 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com) -- In a sealed laboratory, scrub-suited U.S. Army scientists are probing the mysteries of mosquitoes that spread the West Nile virus, including one that could be especially adept at transmitting the sometimes...

Simultaneous Testing for Serum Markers Confirms Diagnosis.
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Simultaneously testing for serum levels of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and interleukin (IL) 12 enables practitioners to better diagnose Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Researchers from the...

Cytokines Play Vital Role in Etiology.
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Levels of cytokines, proteins used by the body as signalling devices, are correlated with the severity of several infectious diseases, including African trypanomiasis, researchers report. A. Sharafeldin...

Worldwide Surveillance Conducted by Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring Program.
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- University of Iowa researchers are playing a lead role in tracking the global emergence and spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The SENTRY Antimicrobial Surveillance Program was established in 1997...

Acidic Environment is Detrimental to M. tb Survival.
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- For Mycobacterium tuberculosis to grow and thrive in an acidic environment, high levels of magnesium (Mg(2+)) must be present, according to laboratory researchers at the University of California at San Diego....

Small Colony Variants in Cystic Fibrosis Patients Discussed at Meeting.
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Two studies about the association between Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants and cystic fibrosis were presented at the 14(th) European Immunology Meeting, held September 23-27, 2000, in Poznan,...

Refugee Records for TB Screening Often Arrive Incomplete.
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Public health authorities recently presented findings at the CDC 2000 International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases that indicate refugees arriving for resettlement in the USA often have records...

Scientists Test Levofloxacin Analogues Against Mycobacteria.
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Levofloxacin has been used in the past few years as an antimicrobial agent against a number of microorganisms that can infect humans. Scientists at the Daiichi Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd., have been...

Outbreak Suspected in Singapore.
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Authorities shut down a day care center in Singapore following a suspected outbreak of hand, foot, and mouth disease linked to the death of a two-year-old boy, officials said on September 13, 2000. The...

Outbreak Hits Quebec, Doctors Call for More Screening.
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- A malaria outbreak has erupted in the province of Quebec, Canada, catching public health officials by surprise and prompting calls for wider screening of immigrants. "It's remarkable that someone hasn't...

Water and Sanitation Upgrade to Improve Nepal's Health Profile.
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- The health profile and living conditions for some 600,000 people in about 50 small towns in Nepal will be improved through a water and sanitation project for which the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has...

Outbreak Continues in Israel.
September 26, 2000... 2000 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com) -- Cases of West Nile Fever continue to be reported in Israel, according to Agence France-Presse. On September 14, 2000, the newswire said Israel public radio had reported hospitalization of 16 more people...