Zsa Zsa, who is in failing health, and her husband have been married for 25 years
Not only can vampire bats locate hotspots or blood vessels in their prey using infrared vein sensors on their lips, which was revealed in a study earlier this month, the blood-sucking bats may also be carrying rabies virus, as U.S. health officials confirmed Friday the first death in the country from rabies carried by the animals.
The camp in the state of Virginia has no traditional activities such as fishing or swimming but it provides young girls with statistics scarier than any campfire story.
Scientists at MIT are developing a new drug that has the potential to revolutionize medicine with its ability to treat almost any viral infection.
Nash underwent successful facial transplant surgery in May
A Mexican teenager is the first officially known person to die from vampire bat bite and infection with human rabies. The 19-year-old victim was a migrant farm worker from Michoacan, who got bitten on the heel by a vampire bat in July.
Charla Nash is "no longer disfigured"
Poverty, joblessness, and limited education increase HIV risk among heterosexuals, the CDC reported. The agency found that HIV is more prevalent in those with low socioeconomic status in its first survey among heterosexuals
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Gilead Sciences' Complera (emtricitabine/rilpivirine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) for treatment of HIV-1 in adults who are new to treatment. The daily tablet consists of a fixed-dose combination of Truvada and NNRTI rilpivirine.
August's dramatic financial shock, which is now both feeding off and risks fueling another economic downturn, may well introduce a third phase of the four-year-old global credit crisis -- the infection of the ultimate creditors.
One person died, and at least nine have fallen sick after consuming infected strawberries picked at a farm in northwestern Oregon.
A person is being treated for an anthrax infection in Minnesota. The FBI has determined that it was not a terrorist act.
A new study provides more evidence that multiple sclerosis (MS) is not caused by a blood vessel condition, as some research has suggested.
An elderly woman died and at least 9 other people were sickened after eating fresh strawberries from an Oregon farm contaminated with E. coli, officials said on Monday.
Study sheds light on obesity?s effect on libido, urinary tract problems.
Authorities recently requested residents of the city of Grimes, Iowa, to boil water that is intended for consumption after E. coli bacteria was detected in the main water supply.
U.S. food safety advocates are calling for changes to meat recall rules after regulators took months to warn the public about a Salmonella outbreak that has sickened nearly 80 people and caused one death.
The U.S. seems to be fighting an uphill battle against HIV. The number of new infections was about 50,000 per year over the past decade and continues to persist, federal officials said Wednesday.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) continues to investigate the outbreak of Salmonella poisoning that spread across 26 states linked to ground turkey, as meat manufacturer Cargill pulls 36 million pounds of meat in the second-biggest recall in U.S. history.
Cargill Meat Solutions Corp., from Arkansas, is voluntarily recalling 36 million pounds of ground turkey products that may be contaminated with a multi-drug resistant strain of Salmonella Heidelberg. That strain of salmonella has killed one person and left about 77 others sick, and the recall is considered the third-largest in U.S. history, according to reports.
Another alarming outbreak of drug-resistant salmonella, that has killed one person in California and sickened at least 76 others in 26 states since March, has lead meat giant Cargill Inc. to recall 36 million pounds of ground turkey. It is one of the largest meat recalls ever, according to the Agriculture Department.
Men who have sex with men remain the group most heavily affected by new HIV infections, according to a CDC officials. The agency estimates that these cases represent only 2 percent of the U.S. population, and accounted for 61 percent of all new HIV infections in 2009. Young males were most severely affected, representing 27 percent of new infections in 2009.
