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February 2008

A growing number of patients in hospitals because of flu bug in Syracuse, New York (29 February 2008)
Chickenpox outbreak in Fallbrook California diagnose 10 children (29 February 2008)
A growing number of dogs and puppies are being infected with parvo virus in Chillicothe, Ohio (29 February 2008)
Salmonella infects meat served at the Yuma charity event in Yuma, Arizona (29 February 2008)
There may be another case of mad cow disease in Slovenia (29 February 2008)
An outbreak of the flu or influenza virus has affected many in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania (29 February 2008)
An outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD) has infected 11 people in Belet Hawo, Somalia (29 February 2008)
433 people have been infected with Clostridium difficile in Branford, Connecticut (29 February 2008)
Over 10,000 bats in New York have been killed by a mysterious virus (29 February 2008)
A red squirrel that had a deadly squirrel pox virus was found in Anglesey’s Pentraeth Forest, UK (29 February 2008)
Pikes Peak school has closed because of a flu outbreak; the school is in south Colorado (28 February 2008)
Many became infected by E. coli from eating at a feast served by an Alabama church (28 February 2008)
Many hospitals are filling up with patients suffering from flu in Arkansas (28 February 2008)
Gastroenteritis forces children’s ward in Sydney, Australia to close (28 February 2008)
11 cows have been infected with bovine tuberculosis in Thief river falls, Minnesota (28 February 2008)
10 nursing homes and 9 childcare centres in New South Whales (NSW) were closed because of an outbreak of the gastroenteritis virus (28 February 2008)
Sekiya, a restaurant in Kaimuki, Hawaii closed because of an E. coli outbreak (27 February 2008)
The influenza virus has been widespread in Maine (27 February 2008)
In Bangladesh 69,862 birds were killed and 235,408 eggs were destroyed because of the bird flu (27 February 2008)
Patients at a Labrador hospital had to be isolated because of symptoms of Norovirus (27 February 2008)
27 cases of Kala Azar or black fever were confirmed in Assam, India (27 February 2008)
The 4th outbreak of bird flu in poultry was contained; the outbreak was in Zunyi city in the province of Guizhou, China (27 February 2008)
E. coli, Salmonella and other contaminates found in many products infects hundreds of humans and animals (26 February 2008)
E. coli outbreak in lettuce served at taco restaurants may be from contaminated waterways (26 February 2008)
Another case of mad cow disease in Alberta was confirmed (26 February 2008)
Another fish virus has occurred in Wisconsin (26 February 2008)
A Chinese woman died from bird flu in southern China (26 February 2008)
C difficile outbreaks are occurring in multiple hospitals in the northern trust area (26 February 2008)
An outbreak of bird flu in southwest China has killed 2 or 3 people 4000 foul and another 24000 other birds (26 February 2008)
There has been a bird flu outbreak in chickens in Karachi, Iraq (26 February 2008)
In Vietnam, a woman died from the bird flu (26 February 2008)
An airline passenger heading to New Zealand was put in a hospital from meningococcal infection (26 February 2008)
110 people on a cruise ship caught Norwalk like virus (NLV) (25 February 2008)
A 4 year old Egyptian girl has contracted bird flu (25 February 2008)
A 17 month old boy in Germany has Waterhouse Friderichsen syndrome, a rare bacterial infection that is literally eating him alive (25 February 2008)
A former patient of the Rochester general hospital had Legionnaire’s disease (25 February 2008)
Mosquitoes with Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE) have been found in three areas in Australia (25 February 2008)
In China, a woman was found with symptoms of bird flu (25 February 2008)
Outbreak of bird flu in poultry kills 3993 in Guizhou, China (25 February 2008)
44 year old woman dies of bird flu after eating bird flu infected chicken in Haifeng, China (25 February 2008)
Patient diagnosed with legionnaires’ at Rochester general hospital (25 February 2008)
Ross River virus reported on Phillips Island (25 February 2008)
Chikuhgunya virus spreads through India (25 February 2008)
72 employees of Shanghai Donnelley printing Co Ltd suffered from food poisoning in Qingpu district, China (25 February 2008)
1,000 birds have been killed by the bird flu in Tibet (25 February 2008)
Outbreak of bird flu confirmed at a farm in Pakistan (24 February 2008)
Tuberculosis found in a woman in Toronto (24 February 2008)
Bird flu spreads to another district in Bangladesh (24 February 2008)
Avian influenza virus found in farm in Malir, Pakistan (24 February 2008)
E. coli outbreak in Baldwin country’s eastern shore (23 February 2008)
5 more people die from Cholera in Kenya (23 February 2008)
Lakefront park water found to contain high amounts of E. coli in Portage, Indiana (23 February 2008)
Salmonella found in pork sausages in Canada (23 February 2008)
18 students at Dailard elementary and National City middle schools were diagnosed with chickenpox (22 February 2008)
Flu outbreak in central Texas has infected close to 900 (22 February 2008)
7 killed in Yellow fever outbreak in Paraguay (22 February 2008)
Norovirus outbreak infects 25 patients at Warwick hospital (22 February 2008)
Butcher sells green, smelly, undercooked meat to schools and keeps his contract in Wales (22 February 2008)
Vomiting bug outbreak hits Weston General Hospital in Florida (22 February 2008)
25 residents and 2 employees at an elderly residence home infected with gastroenteritis in Yuen long, Hong Kong (21 February 2008)
E. coli outbreak infects 12 children at Floyd County School, Indiana (21 February 2008)
Over half a million gallons of liquid cow manure seeps into Walkersville’s water supply (21 February 2008)
A 41 year old man died of bird flu in China (21 February 2008)
Five horses in lake and Volusia County died from a mosquito borne Eastern equine encephalitis virus (21 February 2008)
5 cases of yellow fever have been found in San Pedro, California (21 February 2008)
Cholera found in Jakarta, Indonesia, Kolkata, India and Beria, Mozambique (21 February 2008)
Disease outbreaks becoming more common around the world (21 February 2008)
Easterleigh Animal Sanctuary in St. Anne’s forced to close because of parvo virus (21 February 2008)
Bats may be SARS source (20 February 2008)
22 year old man in China and 132 poultry in Tibet die from bird flu (20 February 2008)
E. coli may become superbug (20 February 2008)
Dead fish found infected with streptococcus iniae (S. iniae) in St. Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean (20 February 2008)
Bird flu kills thousands of birds in 3 provinces of Vietnam (20 February 2008)
Measles outbreak infects 12 children Linda Vista, San Diego, California (19 February 2008)
Colony Collapse Disorder disease is killing bees (19 February 2008)
29 cows killed after blue tongue disease is found on a north Antrim, UK (19 February 2008)
82 children have contracted respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in Alaska (19 February 2008)
California facing sexually transmitted disease (STD) epidemic (19 February 2008)
12 cases of measles found in Kibera, Kenya (18 February 2008)
4 residents at the Our Island Home nursing home died of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in Nantucket, Massachusetts (18 February 2008)
There are 9 cases of leprosy and 100 cases of tuberculosis in Arkansas (18 February 2008)
60 patients have been admitted to the hospital for cholera in Mandera, Kenya (18 February 2008)
A growing number of people in the U.S. are getting the flu (18 February 2008)
11 children have tested positive for measles in San Diego (18 February 2008)
70 people have been treated for diarrhea in Afraha stadium, Nakuru, Kenya (18 February 2008)
Bird flu found in chickens in Bangladesh (17 February 2008)
An outbreak of yellow fever killed one and infected 10 others in Paraguay, Brazil (17 February 2008)
A three year old died of bird flu in Indonesia (17 February 2008)
Thousands of chickens killed because of bird flu (17 February 2008)
10 people diagnosed with drug-resistant flu in Chicago, Illinois (16 February 2008)
70 patients and staff members infected with Norovirus at Oregon State Hospital Oregon (16 February 2008)
Chicken pox outbreak the Villages elementary school Villages, Florida (15 February 2008)
Flu-like virus infecting people for long periods of time in Utah (15 February 2008)
Flu outbreak forces Mitchell county schools in North Carolina to close (15 February 2008)
100 die from cholera outbreak in Katanga province, Dominican Republic of Congo (15 February 2008)
Diarrhea outbreak kills five children and infects 50 others in Amafor, Nigeria (15 February 2008)
Dead flies and dirty meat slicers found at butcher’s whose meat contained E. coli more than 150 people became sick and 5 year old died in Wales (14 February 2008)
Woman who had flesh-eating disease sent to St. John’s hospital in Newfoundland (14 February 2008)
275 children have been infected with leishmaniasis a disfiguring skin disease in Iraq (14 February 2008)
Bird flu killed a 40 year old man and infected another in Vietnam (14 February 2008)
Norovirus has infected 32 people at Credit Valley Hospital in Ontario (14 February 2008)
Flu outbreak forces Visalia Hospital in California to take drastic measures (14 February 2008)
Chicken pox forces Mill Creek elementary in Washington to close (14 February 2008)
An outbreak of gastrointestinal virus is causing crowding at Credit Valley Hospital, Ontario (14 February 2008)
Gray Heron found with bird flu in Hong Kong (14 February 2008)
178 children have been infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in Erie County, Pennsylvania (14 February 2008)
40 year old Vietnamese man dies from bird flu (14 February 2008)
Coffee County, Atlanta, Georgia schools stopped serving meat from a slaughter house that may have sick cows (13 February 2008)
Jungle yellow fever (JYF) found in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina (13 February 2008)
Over 1,000 ducks have been killed by E. coli and gum disease in Delta, Vietnam (13 February 2008)
15 year old Indian-origin girl found with Fanconi-Bickel Syndrome in UK (12 February 2008)
Legionnaires’ bug closes pool after a man was taken to hospital in south Lanarkshire, Scotland (12 February 2008)
Coliform and E. coli found in Palomar Observatory, San Diego, California drinking water system (12 February 2008)
Over 400 students infected with flu at university of Maryland (12 February 2008)
120 patients a day go to hospital with flu in Rutherford County, Tennessee (12 February 2008)
350 cases of dengue and yellow fever have been detected in Paraguay (12 February 2008)
There is a spike in canine distemper virus in Butte County, California (12 February 2008)
Over 1,300 children infected with listeriosis a rare bacterium in Rila, Dupnitsa and Kocherinovo municipalities in Bulgaria (12 February 2008)
Coliform bacteria found in Zanesville, Ohio water supply (12 February 2008)
97 have died and 4,029 have been infected by cholera which is still spreading in Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo (12 February 2008)
Portland, Maine has developed an emergency plan for an outbreak of anthrax or another epidemic (12 February 2008)
75 cases of blue tongue disease found in UK (11 February 2008)
Superbug found in Vancouver’s poorest neighborhood (11 February 2008)
2 children in New York State die from the flu (11 February 2008)
An outbreak of schistosomiasis has been reported in the Mfantseman district of Ghana (11 February 2008)
Over 40 have been infected with flu and pneumonia in Tennessee (11 February 2008)
5 cases of measles have been reported in Sydney, Australia (11 February 2008)
E. coli found in a lake Mary which is Seminole, Florida’s drinking water (11 February 2008)
Nurses had to take drastic measures to stop Vancomycin resistant enterocci (VRE) from spreading at Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital in Queensland, Australia (11 February 2008)
6 people have been infected with cholera in Kampala, Uganda (10 February 2008)
5 children have been infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in Helena, Louisiana (10 February 2008)
Over 20 patients and 6 staff members were infected with norovirus at Ridge meadows hospital in British Columbia (10 February 2008)
E. coli has been found in Fort Myers, Florida’s drinking water (09 February 2008)
E. coli found in Vaal River in South Africa (09 February 2008)
An outbreak of the flu and gastrointestinal virus has made dozens sick in Oklahoma (09 February 2008)
Record 5 million infected with norovirus (09 February 2008)
High levels of bacteria found in Nuuanu stream, Hawaii (08 February 2008)
Soldiers returning from Iraq have been found with acinetobacter baumannii which has caused 7 deaths, loss of limbs and other severe ailments (08 February 2008)
A case of bluetongue disease has been found in greater London, UK (08 February 2008)
An outbreak of scabies has infected 4 staff members and 1 patient at Glasgow Royal infirmary in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (08 February 2008)
A cow has tested positive for bluetongue disease in Watford, England (08 February 2008)
13 people have been infected and 6 of them die from Pseudomonas Aeruginosa in Sapporo Medical University Hospital in Japan (08 February 2008)
A total of 23 have died from Clostridium Difficile in Northern Ireland (08 February 2008)
An outbreak of the flu has infected 90 inmates and may have killed 1 at Stafford prison in Staffordshire, England (08 February 2008)
Choyce Products recalled 11,000 pounds of yellowfin tuna that was contaminated with Salmonella (08 February 2008)
Over a dozen U.S. universities have had flu outbreaks (07 February 2008)
A Dinwiddie school bus driver in Dinwiddie, Virginia has been diagnosed with haemophilus influenzae- type-b (Hib) (07 February 2008)
60 have died and 2,000 infected by Cholera in one province in Congo (07 February 2008)
E. coli found in Blenheim, New Zealand tap water while thousands come to town for the Food and Wine festival (07 February 2008)
61 dogs euthanized because of parvovirus in Rockingham, North Carolina (06 February 2008)
3.4 million birds culled in India because of bird flu (06 February 2008)
Anthrax outbreak kills cows from 11 property owners in Hunter valley, Australia (06 February 2008)
3 beaches have high levels of bacteria in the water (05 February 2008)
Flu outbreak keeps 94 students home from school in Page County, Virginia (05 February 2008)
An outbreak of pertussis infects 147 in West Darfur (05 February 2008)
835 have contracted diarrhoea and 64 of them died in flood-hit Mozambique (05 February 2008)
Several Durban, South Africa rivers have high levels of E. coli some hundreds of times over the limit (05 February 2008)
A farm in Karachi, Pakistan had an outbreak of the bird flu (05 February 2008)
Amount of Tamiflu, drug-resistant flu virus rising (05 February 2008)
Sesame seed crackers found to contain salmonella in Canada (05 February 2008)
Clostridium botulinum found in dip in Canada (05 February 2008)
29-year-old woman dies of bird flu in Indonesia (04 February 2008)
Blue tongue disease found in West Sussex (04 February 2008)
Bird flu detected in Samsun, Turkey (04 February 2008)
Meat workers handling pig brains are getting Progressive Inflammatory Neuropathy (PIN) (04 February 2008)
An outbreak of the measles infects over 35 children and kills 4 of them in Sokoto, Nigeria (04 February 2008)
Listeria outbreak permanently closes Whittier farm in Boston, Massachusetts (04 February 2008)
New data on beef recalls (04 February 2008)
14 people from 4 villages around Nagapattinam, India who complained about diarrhoea were admitted to Nagai General Hospital (03 February 2008)
Over 100 people have been infected with typhoid in Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines (03 February 2008)
E. coli outbreaks are becoming more varied (02 February 2008)
Bacteria levels in Daytona Beach, Florida are too high to swim in (02 February 2008)
3 children infected with measles in Sydney, Australia (02 February 2008)
Olive oil dips in St. Helena, California are being recalled because it’s contaminated with Clostridium botulinum (01 February 2008)
30 chickens died of bird flu in Phichit, Thailand (01 February 2008)
About 340 have been diagnosed with the flu in Hinds County, Mississippi (01 February 2008)
Tamiflu, a drug-resistant flu found in 9 European nations (01 February 2008)