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 Infection Information - August 28, 2008
| Early research suggests that children with a history of severe ear infections or tonsil trouble are at an increased risk of becoming overweight later in life. Children who get recurrent otitis media suffer damage to the nerves controlling taste and such infections may affect food choices, the researchers said at the 116th annual convention of the American Psychological Association in Boston | | Medical researchers will take an innovative approach to studying a Lyme-Like Illness that occurs in Texas and some other states. There are conflicting reports about what causes Southern-Tick Associated Rash Illness (STARI), found in the southeastern and south central United States, and how infectious it is | | Indian women who are physically and sexually abused by their husbands have more risk of HIV infection than other wives, according to a new study. This first large-scale national study to examine the relationship between intimate partner violence against wives and clinically verified HIV infection appears in the Aug. 13 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association | | Supermarket chain Shop and Stop is voluntarily recalling "Ready-to-Eat" tuna salad because it might have bacterial contamination. On Sunday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the recall of 4,890 pounds of Home Made and Stop and Shop tuna salad brands as there was a chance for it to be contaminated with Listeria | | The bird flu detected in Nigeria last month is a new strain of the deadly H5N1 virus that has not been recorded in Africa previously. Laboratory tests from Nigeria and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Italy found the virus from "backyard poultry" in Katsina and Kano states to be an H5N1, clade 2, EMA3 | |
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