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Monday, April 29, 2013  Hospitals see wave of products to fight superbugs; penalties loom if patients catch infections

Thursday, March 14, 2013  Experts say Pope's 1 lung shouldn't affect duties but he should be careful

Monday, February 04, 2013  Around 120 people are being treated for bacterial meningitis after officials say that a sopohomore student at Kalamazaa College died after being diagnosed with bacterial meningitis.

Wednesday, January 09, 2013  Area hospitals are being forced to make policy changes in an effort to limit influenza exposure. One hospital opting to not allow children and enforce a limit of two healthy adult visitors.

Tuesday, December 04, 2012  The total of 201 infections is up from 197 in Friday's count.

Monday, August 01, 2011  Doctors may have found a new way to help prevent babies from catching the cold.

Monday, September 13, 2010  An infectious-disease nightmare is unfolding: Bacteria that have been made resistant to nearly all antibiotics by an alarming new gene have sickened people in three states and are popping up all over the world, health officials reported Monday

Thursday, August 12, 2010  People traveling to India for medical procedures have brought back to Britain a new gene that allows any bacteria to become a superbug, and scientists are warning this type of drug resistance could soon appear worldwide.

Monday, July 19, 2010  For the first time, a vaginal gel has proved capable of blocking the AIDS virus: It cut in half a woman's chances of getting HIV from an infected partner in a study in South Africa.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010  They could have a pinworm. They're not alone. About 30 million school-aged children have these common parasites.

Friday, March 19, 2010  There are eight confirmed cases of campylobacter, no one has been hospitalized

Tuesday, March 16, 2010  UN AIDS chief says new HIV infections increasing among homosexuals, drug users and prostitutes

Thursday, September 24, 2009  A world first: AIDS vaccine cuts the risk of HIV infection by 31 percent in large Thai study

Wednesday, April 29, 2009  WHO raises swine flu alert level to next-to-highest notch as virus spreads to 10 US states

Tuesday, March 03, 2009  The two elderly patients arrived critically ill; both had a drug-resistant bacteria in their system when they died in intensive care.