Infectious Disease
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ER doctor says contracting the coronavirus was 'pretty scary'
Now that she is fully recovered, Yahoo Life Medical Contributor Dr. Dara Kass is doing all that she can to be a part of the solution.
5 min read - NewsLaura Kenney
Experts 'Amazed' After Man Dies From Cancerous Tapeworm
“We were amazed when we found this new type of disease -– tapeworms growing inside a person essentially getting cancer that spreads to the person, causing tumors,” said Atis Muehlenbachs, staff pathologist in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch. His doctors took biopsies from his lymph nodes and lung tumors, and appealed to the CDC for help in diagnosing some bizarre-looking lesions which looked like human cancer, but initial lab tests showed
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Burritogate Continues: Qdoba Employee Unknowingly Infects Customers with Typhoid Fever
It’s been a bad week for burritos: On Sunday, Chipotle closed its locations in Portland and Seattle due to an outbreak of e. Now, it’s come out that a Qdoba employee who unknowingly had typhoid fever passed it on to customers, causing a small outbreak in Colorado. (Photo: Alamy) Officials have traced a small outbreak of typhoid fever that infected three people in Colorado to a Qdoba Mexican Grill. All three ate at the restaurant before becoming ill and two of the people were hospitalized after
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Oregon Teen Contracts Bubonic Plague After Hunting Trip
The girl, whose name and age have not been revealed, is believed to have contracted the disease from a flea bite, the Oregon Health Authority said in a press release Thursday. No one else is thought to have contracted the disease, which is rare in Oregon (officials say there have only been eight cases of the plague in the state since 1995, but no one is known to have died of the disease). In August, two unidentified people contracted the plague after camping at Yosemite National Park. One adu
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'Black Death' Germ Has Afflicted Humankind Longer Than Suspected
The oldest evidence of infection was found in the DNA of people from about 2782 BC and 2794 BC buried in a mass grave in Bateni, Russia, inCentral Asia’s Altai mountains. A study unveiled on Thursday of DNA from Bronze Age people in Europe and Asia showed the bacterium, Yersinia pestis, afflicted humans as long ago as about 2800 BC, more than 3,000 years earlier than the oldest previous evidence of plague.
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This Disfiguring Disease Has Crossed the US Border
An Afghan boy affected by leishmaniasis waits to be seen by a doctor Monday in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Image via AP Photo/Dusan Vranic) A sometimes lethal parasitic disease that can leave its victims with crater-like ulcers and grayish skin tones has never much bothered those within the confines of the US — until now. Between 2000 and 2007, 13 autochthonous cases — meaning victims contracted it here, as opposed to while traveling elsewhere — of leishmaniasis cropped up in Texas and Oklahoma, compa
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British Nurse Pauline Cafferkey Now 'Critically Ill' After Her Ebola Relapse Worsens
She is being treated for Ebola in the high level isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital.” Cafferkey was flown from her home in Scotland to a London hospital early Friday, where she is being treated in an isolation unit. Officials say it’s unlikely that Cafferkey will transmit the virus to others, but they are monitoring 58 close contacts of the nurse — a mixture of friends, family and healthcare workers — with 40 of those offered vaccinations as a precaution, according to the Belfast Telegra
