Thanks, Public Health!
If you're like most people you experience gratitude many times each day. Most often, we're thankful for things that happen -- from the simple act of someone holding a door for you to experiencing the recovery of a loved one following an illness. You probably say "thanks" so many times in a day that you can't recall each specific instance. While it's easy to be thankful for kind acts, good experiences, and things that bring joy and satisfaction into your life, it's harder to recognize and be thankful for things that don't happen. Such it is with public health -- a discipline whose achievements are often notable for what i...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - April 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Genomic study of epidemic dysentery reveals how Europe exported a scourge worldwide
(Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute) The largest genetic study on the bacterium responsible for epidemic dysentery has revealed that the Shigella dysenteriae pathogen, which remains a real scourge in Africa and Asia, probably originated in Europe. This research, which was carried out by scientists from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Institut Pasteur in Paris, also charts the development of the pathogen's resistance to antibiotics, and is published in the journal Nature Microbiology. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 21, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
What is Shigella? Everything you need to know about the bacterial infection from SEX
POSTERS warning about a serious bacterial gut infection caught by faeces getting into people's mouths during sex have been published by the government. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - March 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Key step in process of Shigella infection identified
Researchers have discovered a key mechanism used by Shigella to delivery proteins into target host cells. Their findings may apply to additional bacterial species, including those responsible for typhoid fever, bubonic plague and many hospital-acquired pneumonias. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - March 9, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Mass. General research team identifies key step in process of Shigella infection
(Massachusetts General Hospital) Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital Division of Infectious Diseases have discovered a key mechanism used by Shigella to delivery proteins into target host cells. Their findings may apply to additional bacterial species, including those responsible for typhoid fever, bubonic plague and many hospital-acquired pneumonias. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - March 9, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
'World's Loneliest Chimp,' Abandoned On A Small Island, Gets Cuddly Teddy Bear
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Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 8, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Zambia: New Malaria Drug Elating
[Times of Zambia] Malaria killed the Scottish explorer David Livingstone, who also suffered from dysentery, on May 1, 1873 at the age of 60 in Chief Chitambo's Village in the then Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - February 26, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Nigeria: Suspected Typhoid Fever, Dysentery Kills 13 in Abuja
[Premium Times] The executive secretary of the Federal Capital Territory Primary Health Care Development Board, Rilwanu Muhammad, said unknown disease suspected to be typhoid fever or shigella dysentery had killed 13 people in Saburi community of AMAC in Abuja. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 24, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
India’s Children: Plagued by Preventable Diseases from Poor Sanitation
Though the state of Karnataka in India counts for a higher Human Development Index of 0.478 against the national average of 0.472 in the subcontinent, the continued deficit in water and sanitation continues and the children there are bearing the brunt of the lack of infrastructure. Coupled with the so called Godzilla El Nino of […] (Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health)
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - January 14, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Malini Shankar Tags: Development & Aid Education Featured Global Headlines Health Human Rights Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations cholera dengue virus diarrhoea dysentery gastroenteritis Gramvikas Human Development Index India Unicef W Source Type: news
Shigella Infection: Symptoms, Causes, Prevention & Treatment of Shigellosis
Shigella infection or, 'shigellosis,' is an intestinal disease caused by a family of bacteria known as, 'shigella.' The main sign of shigella infection is diarrhea, which is often times bloody. Shigella may be passed through direct contact with the bacteria in the stool. (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - October 27, 2015 Category: Disability Tags: Digestive System Disorders Source Type: news
Shigella Infection: Symptoms, Causes, Prevention & Treatment of Shigellosis
Information regarding Shigella infection (shigellosis), an intestinal disease with the main sign being diarrhea, which is often bloody (Source: Disabled World)
Source: Disabled World - October 27, 2015 Category: Disability Tags: Digestive Disorders Source Type: news
Nearly 200 sickened by Shigella outbreak in San Francisco area: officials
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nearly 200 people in the San Francisco area have been sickened by an intestinal disease caused by the highly contagious Shigella bacteria since an outbreak began at a Mexican seafood restaurant 10 days ago, health officials said on Monday. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 26, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
93 Sick After Shigella Outbreak at California Restaurant
Outbreak was linked back to Bay Area restaurant that has been shut down. (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - October 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Shigella outbreak at restaurant sickens nearly 100 in California
Stephen FellerSAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Health officials in California are investigating an outbreak of shigellosis in California that sickened 93 people, some of whom ate at a San Juan restaurant. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - October 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Dozens hospitalized after eating at California restaurant
A seafood restaurant in San Jose was shut down by the health department after at least 80 people got sick from an outbreak of Shigella bacteria (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - October 21, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
