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Infectious Diseases

'Old Fashioned' Diseases That Are Making A Comeback

Posted 05.01.2013 | OWN
Read More: Whooping Cough, Gout, Mumps, Measles, Infectious Diseases, Old Diseases, Old World Diseases, Common Diseases, Old Time Diseases, Diseases, Vaccinations, Vaccines, Own-Healthy, OWN News

By Corrie Pikul Here's what you should know about four retro diseases that are still around -- and a fifth that's back with a vengeance. 1. The ...

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Dentist May Have Exposed Patients To 'Infectious Materials'

The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 04.10.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Dental Patients, Video, William Jarrod Stewart, Infectious Diseases, Arkansas Dentist, Patients Exposed to Infectious Materials, Infectious Materials, Dentist-Office, Healthy Living News

The Arkansas Department of Health warns that approximately 100 patients who visited Dr. William Jarrod Stewart for dental treatments during a three-mo...

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Have Deadly Viruses Finally Met Their Match?

Posted 03.21.2013 | Science
Read More: Dna, Chemistry, Video, Ebola, Parasites, Infectious Diseases, Biology, Virus, Genetics, Drugs, Diseases, Rabies, Science News

By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/21/2013 12:05 PM EDT on LiveScience A single compound could stop several viruses, including ...

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Lynne Peeples

Hitchcock Horror: Bird And Rat Infestations Raise Disease Risks, Climate Change Concerns

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 02.21.2013 | Green
Read More: Climate Change Disease, Infectious Diseases, Hurricane Sandy, Lyme Disease, New York City Rats, Climate Change Infectious Disease, Birds, Kentucky, Climate-Change, Climate Change Animals, Kentucky Birds, Histoplasmosis, Climate Change, Superstorm Sandy, Global Warming, Green News

When Rick Ostfeld heard about the sky-darkening flocks of birds descending this winter on Hopkinsville, Ky., he couldn't help but think of Alfred Hitc...

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Resettled Rats Torment New Yorkers In Sandy's Wake; EPA To Ban D-Con Rat Poisons

Lynne Peeples | Posted 04.09.2013 | Green
Read More: Superstorm Sandy, Rats, Infectious Diseases, Hurricane Sandy, Lynne-Peeples, New York, Green News
Lynne Peeples

Welcome again to my blog, Toxic Tracks. Please send along any feedback or ideas for environmental health topics via email or Twitter. As Hurricane Sa...

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If Murder Can Be Tracked Like an Infectious Disease, Should Failing Schools Be, Too?

Sam Chaltain | Posted 02.11.2013 | Home
Read More: Public Schools, Npr, Education, Infectious Diseases, Newark, Communities in Schools, Harlem Children's Zone, Education Reform, Failing Schools, Home News
Sam Chaltain

Currently, we tend to (overly) assign individual causes to the symptoms of whole-school or single-child success in school. A growing chorus of educators and communities, however, recognize there is a complex constellation of forces impacting every child's capacity to learn and grow.

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WATCH: How Rats Pose Health Risk After Hurricane Sandy

Posted 01.01.2013 | Green
Read More: New York City Rats, Hurricane Sandy, Rats, HuffPost Live, Infectious Diseases, Hurricane Sandy New York, HuffPost Live Clips, Video, Green News

As New York City begins to recover from Hurricane Sandy, one growing concern is the spread of disease from the city's sprawling rat population. HuffP...

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Lynne Peeples

Rise Of The Rats: Hurricane Sandy Could Displace Urban Rats, Spread Infectious Disease

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 11.01.2012 | Green
Read More: New York Hurricane, Video, Infectious Diseases, Hurricane Sandy, Flooding, Rats, New York City, Hurricane Sandy Nyc, Hurricane Sandy New York, Green News

The 8-million-strong human population of New York City is matched, if not exceeded, by the city's number of rodent dwellers. Fortunately, the two popu...

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Did Obamacare Help or Harm the Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Investigation in Tennessee?

Manoj Jain, MD MPH | Posted 12.14.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Transparency, Meningitis Outbreak, Meningitis, Cdc, Health Department, Fungal Meningitis, Obamacare, Aspergillus Meningitis, Mrsa, Healthy Living Health News, Affordable Care Act, Public Health, Public Health Infrastructure, Disease Outbreak, Infectious Diseases, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Healthy Living News
Manoj Jain, MD MPH

As infectious disease doctors, we routinely care for patients with meningitis, but never have we treated a case of aspergillus meningitis, the type of fungal infection that has caused more than a dozen deaths and sickened nearly 200 people in Tennessee and other states.

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Lynne Peeples

'Too Gross For Words': Sewage Still Spews Into Waterways As Clean Water Act Turns 40

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 09.27.2012 | Green
Read More: Sewage, Population Growth, Combined Sewer Overflow, Video, Infectious Diseases, Water Pollution, Green Technology, Clean Water Act, Epa, Climate Change, Climate-Change, Gowanus Canal, Clean Economy, Green News

BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- With each steady stroke, John Lipscomb inched the canoe deeper into an infamous urban waterway. The water surrounding the boat grew ...

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Disease Outbreak Risks Rise As More Private School Students Opt Out Of Vaccines

AP | HANNAH DREIER | Posted 11.09.2012 | Home
Read More: Whooping Cough, Infectious Diseases, Student Immunizations, Private Schools, School Vaccines, Public Health, Waldorf School, Immunizations, Student Vaccination, Student Health, Highland Hall Waldorf School, California Schools, School Vaccine Opt-Out, Disease Outbreak, Home News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Parents who send their children to private schools in California are much more likely to opt out of immunizations than thei...

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How Infectious Would a Contagion Have To Be To Cause a Serious Zombie Pandemic?

Quora | Posted 10.15.2012 | Science
Read More: Pandemic, Zombie, Viral, Zombie Apocalypse, Infectious Diseases, Virus, Science News
Quora

This question originally appeared on Quora. By Robyn Correll Carlyle, MPH There are several factors that determine how quickly a zombie disease wo...

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Lynne Peeples

The New 'Dust Bowl': Are Dust Storms Stirring Up Disease?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 08.11.2012 | Green
Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Pesticides, Video, Infectious Diseases, Middle East, Dust Storm, Bird Flu, Asthma, Haboob, Gulf War Syndrome, Green News

Scientists are predicting that the frequency of dust storms, on the rise in the last few years, will continue to increase. Some have also suggested th...

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Lynne Peeples

The Mosquito Wars: As West Nile Risks Rise, So Do Pesticide Attacks

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 07.31.2012 | Green
Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Pesticides, Organophosphates, Mosquitoes, Infectious Diseases, Insecticides, West Nile Virus, Green News

It's raining from the skies above Sacramento, Calif., and Miami. It's blasting out the back of trucks in Chicago and shooting from backpack-mounted gu...

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Watch Your Step: There Might Be a Needle on the Sidewalk

Erin N. Marcus, M.D. | Posted 09.26.2012 | Miami
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Drug Addiction, Occupational Health, Drug Paraphernalia, Hepatitis C, Needle Exchange, Public Health, Syringe Exchange, Hepatitis B, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Drug Treatment, Miami-Dade County Health Department, Miami Crime, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Temple University, Public Safety, Children's AIDS Fund, Garbage Disposal, Drug Arrests, Hansel Tookes, Epidemiology, Neighborhood Health, Insulin Syringes, Disease Prevention, Infectious Diseases, Miami News
Erin N. Marcus, M.D.

Given the state's current political climate, it's unlikely Florida will change its drug paraphernalia laws any time soon, which means the residents of inner city Miami will need to continue to watch their step.

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Lynne Peeples

Disease-Carrying Ticks, 'Kissing Bugs' Soar As Climate Changes

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 04.05.2012 | Green
Read More: Cdc, Global Warming. Ticks, Infectious Diseases, Chagas, Chikungunia, West Nile Virus, Lyme Disease, Zoonoses, Climate Change, The Infection Loop, Children's Health, Global Warming, Green News

Part of a series investigating the complex links between human, animal and environmental health: The Infection Loop. Darren Collins doesn't know li...

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Measles: Back To The Future Of Public Health?

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 05.24.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Healthy Living Health News, USA Today, Cdc, Measles, Infectious Diseases, Mmr, Prevention, Dr. David Katz, Autism, Immunization, Outbreak, Vaccines, Personal Health, Global Public Health, Vaccine, Vaccinations, Autism Vaccines, Healthy Living News
David Katz, M.D.

If measles does make a meaningful comeback, it would imply public health is sliding back as we head into the future. We don't want to go there.

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To Be Rare Or to Be Neglected: For a Disease, That Is the Question

Dr Layla McCay | Posted 05.01.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Neglected-Tropical-Diseases, Global Health, Infectious Diseases, Rare Diseases, Health, Health Care, Rare Disease Day, Ntds, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Neglected Diseases, Health News, Healthy Living News
Dr Layla McCay

In terms of the science, it seems that "rare diseases" are more likely to be neglected than so-called "neglected tropical diseases." Perhaps in terms of NTDs, it's not the diseases but the people who have been neglected?

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Coal Smoke and Planetary Fever: As the Climate Changes, a Deadly Disease Is on the Rise

Daphne Wysham | Posted 04.24.2012 | Green
Read More: Dengue Fever, Pakistan Floods, India, Climate Change, Infectious Diseases, Mosquitoes, Pollution, Coal, Pakistan, Breakbone Fever, India Pollution, Dengue, Green News
Daphne Wysham

I recently returned to my childhood home in India for a final walk down memory lane. But in ways unexpected, it brought home to me how our planetary fever is inflicting a deadly fever on those least to blame for it.

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Lynne Peeples

Bioterror Death Germs Thrive In Labs, Nature, As U.S. Funding Withers

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 02.10.2012 | Green
Read More: Ebola, Bioterrorism, Terrorism, Biosecurity, h5n1, Bird Flu, The Infection Loop, Anthrax, Outbreak, Biological Weapons, Sars, Infectious Diseases, Counterterrorism, Contagion, H1n1, Influenza, Green News

Part of a series investigating the complex links between human, animal and environmental health: The Infection Loop. In early October 2001, just da...

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New Study Suggests Surprising Cause Of Obesity

Posted 02.03.2012 | Science
Read More: Mice, Video, Infectious Diseases, Obesity Epidemic, Yale University, Fat, Obesity, Bacteria, Germs, Overweight, Rodents, Science News

By: Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily Staff Writer Published: 02/03/2012 09:08 AM EST on MyHealthNewsDaily We've heard obesity can be "sp...

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Sorry, But Bird Flu Bioterrorism Is Much Harder Than It Sounds

Scott Thill | Posted 03.25.2012 | Science
Read More: Avian Flu, Apocalypse, Infectious Diseases, Paranoia, National Security, Bioterrorism, Pandemic, Ron Fouchier, Aids, Terrrorism, Al Qaeda, Science News
Scott Thill

It may be more of an existential threat than current global pandemics like AIDS or climate change, but it doesn't make it a workable bioweapon.

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Lynne Peeples

Still Deadly After Death: 'Bushmeat' Trade May Import Disease

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 01.12.2012 | Green
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Ebola, Infectious Diseases, Africa, Bushmeat, Global Trade, Wildlife Trade, The Infection Loop, Immigration, International Travel, Green News

Thousands of pounds of primate parts, rodents and other dry, smoked or raw animals -- so-called "bushmeat" -- are smuggled into the United States as f...

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Lynne Peeples

Antibiotic Use In Farm Animals Still Broadly Unaddressed Despite 'Fanfare' For FDA Move

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 01.09.2012 | Green
Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Organic Farming, Infectious Diseases, Livestock, Superbugs, Mrsa, Antibiotics, Factory Farms, Fda, Cephalosporins, Green News

The Food and Drug Administration's latest move concerning the use of antibiotics in farm animals garnered a good deal of praise last week, but public ...

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Lynne Peeples

Exotic Dangers: Could The Global Pet Trade Import The Next Pandemic?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 12.21.2011 | Green
Read More: Avian Flu, Infectious Diseases, Contagion Movie, Africa, Wildlife Trade, The Infection Loop, Monkeypox, Outbreak, Exotic Pets, Contagion, Rabies, Green News

Part of a series investigating the complex links between human, animal and environmental health: The Infection Loop. Dr. Anthony Pilny had just fin...

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