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New Virus Spreads from Monkeys to Lab Workers

The onset was a single monkey coming down with pneumonia at the California National Primate Research Center in Davis. In a matter of weeks, 19 monkeys were dead and three human beings were sick.
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Legionnaire's Disease Reported in Las Vegas

Las Vegas has become a catalyst for Legionnaire's Disease. Reuters has reported that at least 6 people have contracted the disease since 2009 and that there were no fatalities.
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Measles Outbreak: UN Says Measles Running Rampant In Ethiopia, Kenya

The United Nations has reported that measles outbreaks in Ethiopia and Kenya have killed dozens of children and sickened thousands of others. UNICEF spokeswoman Marixie Mercado said today that at least 17,584 measles cases were reported by Ethiopian officials in the first half of the year. The outbreaks have results in 114 deaths.
Google and Memory

Google May be Altering Your Brain: Study

A new study claimed that Google has become a part of everyday life. The study went on to say that the search engine is changing the way we think and what we choose to remember. The rise of Google and social media has not only molded our society into an insecurity-maintaining, cold-hearted machine but has also influenced our memory, which were were previously thought to be rather fixed.
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Celebrity Gives to Scientology, But Not Kawasaki Disease

In the same week social media network, Facebook, helps to diagnose a young boy with a rare autoimmune disease, actor John Travolta, 57, and his wife Kelly Preston, who both falsely claimed their son, Jett Travolta, had Kawasaki disease, a rare condition which causes inflammation of blood vessels, chose not to donate to charities supporting the illness.
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Kawasaki Disease Diagnosed on Facebook, Saves Boy's Life [VIDEO]

Deborah Copkaken Kogan's former neighbor, her pediatrician friend and her pediatric oncologist cousin all suggested a strange diagnosis of Kawasaki Disease in her son, Leo, after photos were shared with more than 1,400 friends friends and family on social network, Facebook, which has more than 750 million members.
 AIDS Infection and Treatment

Early HIV Treatment as Prevention Can Derail Epidemic: Researcher

A Canadian HIV researcher said today that treatment as prevention, or should be used worldwide in order to derail the AIDS epidemic. Two HIV studies in Africa revealed July 13 that antiretroviral drugs used in combination with anti-retroviral therapy helps treat HIV and prevents transmission through decreasing contagiousness.
Super bug in petri dish

People Who Drink Coffee Are Less Likely To Carry MRSA Infection: Study

People who drink tea or coffee regularly may be less likely to carry the MRSA infection in their nostrils, a new study published in the Annals of Family Medicine revealed today. MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a staph infection-causing bacterium that is resistant to common antibiotics, is potentially lethal, causing pneumonia and blood infections.
Tea Drinkers

Tea and Coffee Drinkers Less Likely to Carry MRSA

A new government study published in the Annals of Family Medicine shows that those who drink hot tea or coffee are about twice as likely as non-drinkers to ward off methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, in their nostrils.

Overweight Children Should Be In Foster Care: Journal of the American Medical Association

Some experts have said that chronically obese children should be taken away from their parents, read the Journal of the American Medical Association as poor caretaking is only one risk factor for childhood obesity. And a question arises: Should the government step in and take these children from their homes or is this akin to banning circumcision in California?

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