 Plague Information - August 28, 2008
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Hundreds of earthquake survivors living in camps in suffer from acute diarrhea, according to World Health Organization officials. Doctors are investigating whether the outbreak has been caused by cholera |
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St. Louis, MO (AHN) An international team of researchers has partially unraveled the genetic details of a mysterious disorder that formerly caused seizures and death in infant boys within one month of birth |
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Doctors fear overcrowding and septic water contamination could lead to a rash of illness among survivors of a landslide that swept away their Maya Indian village this month. Thousands of people from Panabaj are crammed into churches and houses in the nearby village of Santiago and other towns, while the government races to build temporary housing |
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A survey of 19 public health clinics describes a wide variety of response times and medical advice given its researchers, who posed as doctors in telephone calls to clinics across the country in a test that stretched over nine months. One health clinic officer told a caller describing botulism symptoms to go back to bed. Another told a caller describing signs of bubonic plague not to worry. And not one of the public health clinic surveyed by the RAND Corporation suggested isolating a patient whose face, arms and legs were said to be covered with pustules or other smallpox symptoms, reports The Associated Press |
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China's official news agency Xinhua reports a mysterious disease has killed 17 farmers in southwestern China. 41 more are been hospitalized. Preliminary investigations reveal the victims became infected after butchering sick pigs or sheep. Xinhua also says those affected have developed symptoms like high fever, fatigue, nausea and vomiting |
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