The deadly disease, which has already been recorded in 24 US states, is causing concern among experts - through contaminated “zombie deer” meat, the infection can be transmitted to humans and lead to death. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of January, from...
Specialists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found that the incidence of gastroschisis, a birth defect in which intestines or other organs fall out of the abdomen, has increased in the United States. Doctors attribute this to an increase in the use of painkillers, but others are also possible ...
In 2018, the United States recorded a sad record of 186 cases of acute flaccid myelitis among children. This disease resembles polio, causes paralysis and cannot be cured. Doctors say the number of cases will decrease by 2020, but then another outbreak should be expected ...
A North Carolina school with a large "anti-vaccine" community is at the center of the nation's largest chickenpox outbreak, officials say. On Friday, 36 students at the Asheville Waldorf School in Asheville were diagnosed with the disease, the BBC writes, citing local press...
The 2017-2018 flu season was particularly tough. The H3N2 strain has led to widespread spread of the virus and serious illness throughout the country, writes The Time. Last year, about 80 thousand people died due to the flu, including 180 children, according to ...
A new influenza drug that can shorten the duration of illness in adolescents and adults in a single dose was presented in a topical study published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. The article presents the results of two multicenter, double-blind, random ...
Specialists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warn that US residents should beware of insects. A new report from the department says diseases transmitted by tick, mosquito and flea bites are a "growing public health problem" in the United States, writes CNN. Cases of diseases, vectors ...
In America, deaths from infectious diseases are 20% lower than in 1980, but some states are still more vulnerable than others, the authors of the University of Washington study say, the Daily Mail writes. The study concludes that in parts of the United States where ...
Every year, at the same time, I started to feel like I had the flu. I was losing money on orders that I could not hand over, because my eyes were darkened and my thoughts were confused. I was removed from the schedule in a cafe, ...
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his spouse Priscilla Chan have pledged to donate $ 3 billion of personal funds to sponsor medical research over the next 10 years. The couple hopes that this will help overcome all known diseases by the end of the century. The couple created a charity ...