Latest Health Articles for Diarrhea

• HK reports 2nd swine flu-related death

  article 2009-07-28  |  Author: Staff
  Hong Kong has reported its second swine flu-related death after a Filipino housekeeper with the disease died.Health authorities said in a statement that the 37-year-old woman was in critical condition requiring mechanical ventilation before she died on Monday.The statement also late Monday said she developed fever, sore throat, ...

• Texas mother charged with feeding her child feces

  article 2009-06-04  |  Author: Staff
  A woman in Texas has been accused of repeatedly smearing human waste on her 3-year-old daughter's intravenous feeding line, potentially causing life-threatening infections.Emily Beth McDonald, 23, of Austin, was charged with felony injury to a child. She faces up to life in prison if convicted.According to an arrest affidavit, a ...

• Food poisoning kills Singapore woman, sickens 111

  article 2009-04-07  |  Author: Staff
  A Singapore woman has died, another is in a coma and 111 people have received medical treatment from food poisoning linked to a single street food stall, health officials said.A 57-year-old woman died Monday after eating last week at the street stand selling Indian rojak, which is usually a combination ...

• Salmonella found in central Calif. pistachio plant

  article 2009-04-07  |  Author: Garance Burke
  Federal officials confirmed Monday they found traces of salmonella in a central California pistachio processing plant that sparked a nationwide recall of the nut.The Food and Drug Administration said state and federal inspectors discovered the bacteria in "critical areas" at Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella, Inc., the second-largest pistachio processor ...

• Salmonella sickens people in 12 states

  article 2008-10-05  |  Author: Staff
  The government is urging consumers to thoroughly cook frozen chicken dinners after 32 people in 12 states were sickened with salmonella poisoning.The health warning by the U.S. Department of Agriculture cited frozen dishes in which the chicken is raw, but breaded or pre-browned, giving the appearance of being cooked. They ...

• Canada links bacteria outbreak to tainted meat

  article 2008-08-24  |  Author: Staff
  Public health officials in Canada said Saturday they have linked a deadly bacterial outbreak that killed four people to recalled meat products from Maple Leaf Foods.The outbreak has resulted in 21 confirmed cases of listeriosis, a kind of food poisoning that can be dangerous to the elderly, newborns, pregnant

• Myanmar health system strained by cyclone

  article 2008-05-18  |  Author: Staff
  Saw Htin's cheeks were wet with tears after waiting in line with hundreds of sick, desperate cyclone survivors. The 18-year-old mother clutched her wheezing baby boy."He coughed and cried all night," she explained hysterically to a volunteer doctor. "Is he going to die?"Myanmar's ragged health system has been stretched to ...

• Myanmar government says no disease outbreaks in cyclone-hit areas

  article 2008-05-18  |  Author: Staff
  No disease outbreaks have hit the low-lying areas of Myanmar clobbered by a cyclone two weeks ago, despite fears expressed by international aid groups, state-run media said Sunday."Except for the usual diseases, there are no incidents of any epidemic outbreaks in the cyclone-hit regions," the National Disaster Preparedness Central Committee ...

• Residents of Colorado town with contaminated water closer to getting a shower

  article 2008-03-29  |  Author: P. Solomon Banda
  High concentrations of chlorine being used to purge salmonella from a southern Colorado town's water system were expected to drop far enough Saturday that residents could use the water for showering.The disinfection process in Alamosa began Tuesday, five days after officials confirmed the presence of the bacteria in the water. ...

• Municipal water in Colorado town confirmed as source of salmonella outbreak

  article 2008-03-22  |  Author: Catherine Tsai
  It could be three more weeks before residents of a southern Colorado town can drink water straight from the tap after dozens of cases of salmonella poisoning were linked to municipal water, putting seven people in the hospital.An analysis indicates the municipal water system in Alamosa is the source of ...