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Botulism from … (Source: Physician's First Watch current issue)
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - September 5, 2017 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Arizona baby becomes sick with botulism on first birthday
Arizona baby Cole Hansberger could not sit up on the day of his first birthday last week. His mother rushed him to the emergency room and he was diagnosed with botulism. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 17, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Medical Emergency Of Otto Warmbier
All that the doctors who treated Cincinnati, Ohio resident Otto Warmbier knew is what they had seen or maybe read in the news. They knew he had just been released on June 13 from imprisonment in North Korea where he had been held by for more than 17 months. He had been sentenced in March 2016 to 15 years of hard labor for allegedly removing a propaganda poster from a wall at a Pyongyang hotel where he had been staying. The University of Virginia honors student had been visiting the authoritarian state during a five-day trip with a group called Young Pioneer Tours, which is a group out of China – an important note.
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Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 22, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What an autopsy could tell us about Otto Warmbier ’ s death
Otto Warmbier's death and the events in North Korea that led up to it remain a mystery. North Korean officials said that during his 17 months in detention for “hostile acts against the state,” Warmbier had contracted botulism, was given a sleeping pill and never woke up. Last week, after nearly a year and a half […]Related:In just one year, nearly 1.3 million Americans needed hospital care for opioid-related issues200 scientists call for new restrictions on antimicrobial chemicals in personal-care productsTrump ‘simply does not care’ about HIV/AIDS, say 6 experts who just quit his advisory council (S...
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - June 20, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What is botulism? How you catch condition North Korea claimed Otto Warmbier suffered
BOTULISM is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition which North Korea claimed placed US student Otto Warmbier in a coma. Yesterday, his family announced the 22-year-old, who returned to the US on June 13, after 17 months of imprisonment, has died. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - June 20, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Otto Warmbier coma: How does a respiratory arrest leave you in ‘unresponsive wakefulness'?
OTTO Warmbier has now returned home to Ohio where he remains in a coma. But his condition isn ’t down to botulism, as North Korea had previously alleged. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - June 16, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What is botulism? How you can catch rare condition that has put Otto Warmbier in a COMA
BOTULISM is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition that has allegedly placed US student Otto Warmbier, who has just been released from North Korea, in a coma. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - June 14, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
CDC's Emergency Drugs for US Clinicians and Hospitals CDC's Emergency Drugs for US Clinicians and Hospitals
Suspect a case of botulism or malaria? You ' ll soon find that your local pharmacy doesn ' t stock antitoxin or artesunate. You can get these lifesaving drugs quickly from CDC. Here ' s how.CDC Expert Commentary (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - June 5, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Emergency Medicine Commentary Source Type: news
Morning Break: More Docs on the Way; What Is Botulism? Lap Band Demise
(MedPage Today) -- Health news and commentary from around the Web gathered by the MedPage Today staff (Source: MedPage Today Pulmonary)
Source: MedPage Today Pulmonary - May 26, 2017 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
The Latest: Botulism outbreak seems limited to 1 cheese bag
California health officials say botulism outbreak linked to nacho-cheese sauce appears limited to an opened bag of the sauce (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - May 26, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
1 dead and 9 hospitalized with botulism from nacho cheese sauce
One person is dead and nine others were hospitalized after they contracted botulism from eating contaminated nacho cheese sauce at a gas station outside of Sacramento, California, state and local officials said. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - May 25, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
1 dead and 9 hospitalized with botulism after eating nacho cheese sauce
One person is dead and nine others were hospitalized after they contracted botulism from eating contaminated nacho cheese sauce at a gas station outside of Sacramento, California, state and local officials said. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - May 25, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Botulism: how it kills
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Source: CNN.com - Health - May 25, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What is botulism, and how does it kill?
Two separate outbreaks this month of the rare but deadly toxin botulism have focused attention on this potentially fatal illness, which usually strikes about 150 people a year, mostly infants. (Source: CNN.com - Health)
Source: CNN.com - Health - May 25, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
California student hospitalized by nacho cheese incident
Jonathan Villasenor, 16, was left fighting for his life in the ICU after he ate a gas station's cheese that had botulism last month in Sacramento, California. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 25, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
