A farm worker from Mexico who died last year was the first ever human to perish in the US of rabies borne by a vampire bat, health officials report.
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‘Vampire rabies’ killed man in US
British health officials announced on Sunday that homosexual men will soon be allowed to give blood, with one caveat: Only men who have not had sexual intercourse within the past 10 years are allowed to donate. England’s health minister Anne Milton…
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Britain Allows Gay Men to Donate Blood
Despite assurances by health officials, worries about radiation-tainted foods are growing among consumers, businesses and governments across the globe.
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Screening the Day’s Catch for Radiation
While it’s not terribly surprising the Playboy Mansion would be ground zero for the outbreak of something or other, a mysterious respiratory illness probably isn’t at the top of the list. Los Angeles County health officials are investigating dozens of…
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Mysterious Illness Strikes Playboy Mansion
The number of people with swine flu who have died in East Yorkshire this winter rises to 10, health officials confirm.
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Ten deaths in swine flu outbreak
Scottish health officials say they were never asked by their English counterparts for some of their spare flu jabs, despite the shortfall south of the border.
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Scots ‘not asked for spare jabs’
California health officials warn residents to stay away from beaches contaminated by run-off after a week of torrential rain.
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California beaches ‘contaminated’
Public health officials are called into an independent school in Cardiff, where dozens of pupils are off sick and three swine flu have been confirmed.
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Swine flu cases at city school
Federal health officials are warning consumers to avoid a cheese sold in five states over an E. coli outbreak that has left 25 people sick.
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Cheese sold in 5 states linked to E. coli
The cholera epidemic is likely to grow within Haiti and reach the Dominican Republic, health officials said.
The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Haiti passes 250, health officials say, with more than 3,000 cases reported.
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Cholera cases still rising in Haiti
The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Haiti passes 250, health officials say, with more than 3,000 cases reported.
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Cholera death toll jumps in Haiti
Public health officials are working to keep the country’s cholera outbreak from spreading in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where thousands of people are still living in sprawling tent cities after January’s massive earthquake.
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U.N. worried over Haiti’s cholera cases
The number of cases in the Legionnaires’ outbreak has risen to 21, health officials have confirmed
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Legionnaires’ cases go up again
Three more cases of Legionnaires’ disease are identified as health officials close a cooling tower in Merthyr Tydfil until it is cleaned and disinfected.
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Cases of Legionnaires’ rise to 17
