INFECTION

In an attempt to counter high population grown in Rajasthan, India, health officials in the western state are launching a new campaign encouraging men and women to volunteer for sterilization

New research has found that the use of antimicrobial copper surfaces in intensive care units (ICU) kill bacteria that can cause hospital-acquired infections (HAIs).

New research has found copper to be an effective antimicrobial agent, killing nearly all pathogens in certain parts of hospitals, for instance.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration along with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and public health agencies are warning consumers not to eat Evergreen Produce brand alfalfa sprouts or spicy sprouts because they may be linked to 20 cases of salmonella poisoning.

Researchers at a Japanese university have invented a minuscule, self-propelled, remote-controlled endoscope that can capture images of a human's stomach and colon.

Opponents of a measure to ban circumcision in San Francisco, before it takes to the ballot in November, filed a lawsuit Wednesday on the grounds that state law prohibits local governments from restricting medical procedures.

A rabies-infected girl who showed normally irreversible symptoms of the late-stage infection, survived miraculously in what is only the third such case in the US.

The consumption of non-alcoholic weissbier, or wheat beer, has a positive effect on athletes' health, according to a research study that gathered during the world's largest study of marathons, Be-MaGIC (beer, marathons, genetics, inflammation and the cardiovascular system).

Eight people injured in the nearly mile-wide tornado that ripped across Joplin, Missouri have contracted a rare fungal infection, and three have died, officials said Friday.

The United Nations and the United States announced a new initiative Countdown to Zero, to eliminate HIV among babies by 2015.

Despite consumer education campaigns to reduce the food poisoning cases caused by salmonella, infections have steadily increased for the last few years according to federal FoodNet report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

A North German farm,Gaertnerhof Bienenbuettel, has been identified as the most likely source of the infection in the E.coli outbreak, that killed 22 people and affected more than 2,200 people, a local media report said.

Four people in the United States are suspected of having been exposed to an E. Coli outbreak in Germany after returning from travels to Hamburg, U.S. health officials said.

Bean sprouts grown in Germany have been identified as the most likely source of the E. coli outbreak which has mostly been restricted to northern Germany, state authorities said.

The number of cases related to an outbreak of infections from a deadly strain of E. Coli that has killed 17 people in Germany has jumped by 199 Since May 31, the World Health Organization reported on Friday.

A recent deadly E.coli outbreak in Europe has already killed 18 people, 17 of them in Germany. The 17th German victim, an 81-year-old woman passed away in the early hours of Thursday morning from the enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) bacterium, a kidney specialist at the clinic in the northern city of Hamburg said.

A recent deadly E.coli outbreak in Europe has already killed 18 people, 17 of them in Germany.

The escherichia coli (E.coli) outbreak has infected more than 1,500 people and killed 17 others. Vegetable sellers are suffering due to E.coli outbreak.

The Catholic Church might be one of the largest providers of HIV/AIDS care facilities in the world. But researchers, scientists and believers who have been waiting for Catholic Church's approval of condom use are left disappointed. At the conference held over the weekend Vatican announced that its long-standing opposition against condom use to prevent HIV/AIDS will not be altered.

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The recent outbreak of E. coli is one of the worst on record, but deadly infection from the bacterium due to infected produce is nothing new. So what can you do to prevent your family from becoming sick from Escherichia coli?