Archive for the ‘Virus Killer’ Category

Rabies: Fear Second Briton Bitten by Puppy Contracted Killer Disease in India

The Health Protection Agency (HPA) has found another person suspected of having rabies. Doctors found symptoms of rabies in a 50-year-old woman, just two days after a confirmed rabies case was found in Britain. The woman is reported to have contracted the deadly disease after she was bitten by a puppy in India, according to a report in The Sun.

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Defense portrays Taft's accused killer as mentally damaged

Raleigh, N.C. The man facing a potential death sentence in the fatal attack of North Carolina state school board member Kathy Taft comes from a family with a history of depression, alcoholism and other mental disorders, his mother told jurors in his first-degree murder trial Wednesday.

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West Nile season begins in Kane County

Article posted: 5/23/2012 6:29 PM With only three Kane County deaths from West Nile in the past decade, the virus has slipped into the realm of being a seldom and mostly silent summer killer. Public health officials would like to keep it that way as monitoring infected mosquitoes is under way. The year 2010 was the last time a human resident of Kane County died from West Nile

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Microsoft making house calls? No, it's a scam

Has your Internet Explorer browser ever crashed while you were cruising the Web? Of course it has.

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Test Baby Boomers for Hepatitis C, Says CDC

FRIDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants all Americans born between 1945 and 1965 — the baby boom generation — tested for hepatitis C.

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