Warnings Issued After People Get Sick From Drinking Raw Milk

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) – Public health agencies in southern Colorado are issuing warnings while they investigate an outbreak of infections linked to raw milk.

As many as 20 people have reported becoming sick after drinking raw milk supplied by a ranch in Pueblo County.

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2016/09/24/warnings-issued-after-people-get-sick-from-drinking-raw-milk/

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14th Zika virus infection confirmed in South Korea

South Korea has confirmed another case of the Zika virus infection, raising the number of people infected with the virus here to 14, health authorities said Saturday.

A 34-year-old man who recently made a trip to Thailand was confirmed to have been infected with the mosquito-borne virus on Friday, according to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC).

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2016/09/116_214654.html

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Thanks Glenn, Gary, for all the links, and wishes.

I do not have psoriasis any longer. If you are young and don't know what you have you think the worse leprosy. Both psoriasis and leprosy, are skin infections. Thanks Ian, also.

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Sorry to hear you has this problem Lynn hope you have it under control and I can understand why Henson's scares you .

Psoriasis

Psoriasis is a long-term skin condition, that can also affect joints. Although the cause of psoriasis is unknown, genes may play a part. People with psoriasis are at slightly higher risk of developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

This link is one I'm not shore about because of the politics of health care and the Liberal Party trying to stuff up Medicare but it does have all the state gov. health departments listed , I'm just sus on why it's recommending private health providers . The info is probably accurate thou .

https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/psoriasis

see also http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/psoriasis/

Sorry to hear you has this problem Lynn hope you have it under control and I can understand why Henson's scares you .

Psoriasis

Psoriasis is a long-term skin condition, that can also affect joints. Although the cause of psoriasis is unknown, genes may play a part. People with psoriasis are at slightly higher risk of developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

This link is one I'm not shore about because of the politics of health care and the Liberal Party trying to stuff up Medicare but it does have all the state gov. health departments listed , I'm just sus on why it's recommending private health providers . The info is probably accurate thou .

https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/psoriasis

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About 100 cases per year in the USA. There are now treatments for it, if it is diagnosed early.

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That disease is born out of filth, and marginal
living conditions. As a child in the 1950s in Nova
Scotia, leprosy would turn up from time to time.
There was a leper colony in New Brunswick. But with
the national health care, and improving living
conditions the colony was closed in the sixties.
It takes a combination of filth, and a person's need to do
the work every day to feed himself that breeds leprosy.
It is that bad in lots of places in the world, but I
thought north America was immune to this still.

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Yes, leprosy scares me.

Why scares me even more.....

Enough to make my skin crawl. Thought I had it as a child. Instead it turned out to be Psoriasis. Both are skin infection's going back to the bible and Egypt.
I had a bad case of psoriasis, glad it went away. How about you celttooth?

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Yes, leprosy scares me.

Why scares me even more.....

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Tests confirm Jurupa Valley child has leprosy

Lab tests have confirmed that a Jurupa Valley child has leprosy, or Hansen’s disease, Riverside County public health officials reported Thursday, Sept. 22.

The findings by the National Hansen’s Disease (Leprosy) Laboratory Research Program in Baton Rouge, La., supported a local doctor’s diagnosis that a student at Indian Hills Elementary School had leprosy.

A second student who may be related to the other child also had been diagnosed with the disease, but lab results did not confirm that the second person has leprosy.


http://www.pe.com/articles/leprosy-813960-disease-confirm.html

Yes, leprosy scares me.

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CDC reports first highly resistant gonorrhea in US

The specter of gonorrhea completely resistant to the drugs used to treat it just grew larger.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today reported for the first time cases involving gonorrhea bacteria having high resistance to azithromycin and reduced susceptibility to ceftriaxone, the two drugs that are currently recommended and are described as the last available effective treatment.

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2016/09/cdc-reports-first-highly-resistant-gonorrhea-us

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Wells Pharmacy Network recalls hundreds of products

(CNN)A major recall has been issued for all sterile products recently produced by the compounding pharmacy Wells Pharmacy Network. The recall was prompted by concern from the US Food and Drug Administration "over a lack of sterility assurance," according to the recall announcement issued Thursday.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/22/health/wells-pharmacy-network-recall/index.html

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The MythBusters did a show on the 5 second rule what did they find out ?

http://www.discovery.com/tv.../mythbusters/.../five-second-rule-minim...

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Cat Scratch Can Sometimes Lead to Serious Illness: CDC



WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- If Fluffy the cat gets out of sorts and scratches you, it's possible you could get a bacterial infection called cat-scratch disease that might even land you in the hospital.

An estimated 12,000 Americans are infected each year with cat-scratch disease, and around 500 must go to the hospital, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

http://health.usnews.com/health-care/articles/2016-09-21/cat-scratch-can-sometimes-lead-to-serious-illness-cdc

Cat bites also leads to infection.

Cat scratch fever... LOL.

This has been known about since the 1950s.

B. henselae infection can be transmitted by a number of organisms.

This is news... how??

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https://youtu.be/iY57ErBkFFE

#Texit

Don't blame me, I voted for Johnson(L) in 2016.

Truth is dangerous... especially when it challenges those in power.

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/who-labels-drug-resistant-superbugs-fundamental-threat-humans-n651981

Drug-Resistant Superbugs Are a 'Fundamental Threat', WHO Says

Anne Miller showed the world what a miracle drug looks like.

The 33-year old nurse had been sick for a month after suffering a miscarriage in 1942. Her temperature spiked to as high as 107 degrees as she lay dying from childbed fever, once a major killer of young women.

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Cat Scratch Can Sometimes Lead to Serious Illness: CDC



WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- If Fluffy the cat gets out of sorts and scratches you, it's possible you could get a bacterial infection called cat-scratch disease that might even land you in the hospital.

An estimated 12,000 Americans are infected each year with cat-scratch disease, and around 500 must go to the hospital, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

http://health.usnews.com/health-care/articles/2016-09-21/cat-scratch-can-sometimes-lead-to-serious-illness-cdc

Cat bites also leads to infection.

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The Five-Second Rule Is Not Legit, New Study Says

A straightforwardly titled study — “Is the Five-Second Rule Real?” — led by food microbiologist Donald W. Schaffner at Rutgers University has sadly concluded that no, it’s not. Alas, if you pick up food from the floor, germs are probably coming with it.

The finding appeared online this month in the American Society for Microbiology’s journal, Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

An earlier study from Aston University’s School of Life and Health Sciences in England had suggested that food picked up just a few seconds after being dropped was “less likely to contain bacteria than if left for longer periods of time,” but Schaffer noted that this study did not appear in a peer-reviewed journal.

http://site.people.com/food/five-second-rule-real-not-true-study/

I will pick up a pill from the floor, but not food.

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Rising concern over drug-resistant germs prompts UN response



NEW YORK (AP) — World leaders are pushing to end the overuse of antibiotics and to encourage the development of new medicines, driven by concern that drug-resistant germs could lead to millions of deaths and undermine the global economy.

For only the fourth time in its 70 year history, the United Nations is holding a special meeting Wednesday devoted to a health issue: This time, on the rise of untreatable infections that is being propelled by the way drugs are overused and misused in both people and animals.

http://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2016-09-20/rising-concern-over-drug-resistant-germs-prompt-un-response

About time.

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Some good news.

The first outbreak of Zika virus in the continental U.S. was declared over Monday, even as more Zika-infected mosquitoes were found in a nearby Zika zone.

No new case of Zika has been found in the Wynwood area in the north of Miami for 45 days, so the up-and-coming arts and foodie district has been declared free of local transmission.

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/zika-virus-outbreak/one-florida-neighborhood-comes-zika-list-n650641

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Self-medicated use of antibiotics? Not in the USA (or at least not legally). They are by Prescription only in the USA... for humans.

I know.
But there are MANY other countries where you can buy antibiotics without prescription.
In Europe for instance Spain.
In South Asian countries where prostitute women eat antibiotics on a daily bases.
Then we have the problem in countries where prescription of antibiotics is high.

We're battling the prescribed antibiotics these days in Croatia!
Most of the doctors don't give them up now, unless it's sthg serious...
;)

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