Tag: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

It’s not just Devon: Map reveals faeces contaminated tap water has been detected in TEN areas of England and Wales as experts warn that ongoing cryptosporidium outbreak could spread

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Could you be one of an estimated 44million drinking water supplies potentially contaminated by faeces, according to official data?

MailOnline’s fascinating map reveals which water supplies recorded breaches for bacteria commonly found in the digestive systems of animals and people in water supplies in the UK. 

It comes as 22 cases of a parasite called cryptosporidium, which most commonly enters water supplies via contamination of faeces, have been detected in Devon.

Cryptosporidium infection causes people to suffer weeks of diarrhoea

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Beauden, 3, scraped his knee..days later both limbs were amputated: Doctors warn of a sepsis crisis that’s killing one American every 90 seconds – and hospitals are missing it

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The toddler who fell of his bike and scraped his knee. The woman with a common bowel disease injury. And the man with Strep throat. 

All are victims of a minor, treatable problems that turned deadly in a matter of seconds. Thankfully, all four survived – but left with life-changing injuries, including legs so destroyed they had to be amputated.

The culprit is a terrifying condition that occurs in response to a minor infection, and affects one American every 20-seconds:

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Five factors that raise your risk of ingesting forever chemicals: How your gender, salary, ethnicity, job and what you eat are crucial – so what’s your risk?

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A recent wave of reports have brought to light the widespread infiltration of cancer-causing chemicals in our everyday lives.

So-called ‘forever chemicals’ – officially known as PFAS or per and polyfluoroalkyl substances – are used to make plastics, and are said to remain inside our bodies for decades, wreaking havoc on organs.

There are thousands of types but only a small proportion have been studied, including the most widely used Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS) in firefighting foam,

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Patients with cancer face waiting over a year for lifesaving medication that costs just $10 – as US drug shortages hit record high

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The Bray family had always prided themselves on a positive outlook in life. 

And in 2018, when they received the devastating news that nine-year-old daughter Abby had life-threatening leukemia, they tried to focus on finding a way out of the situation.

She had great doctors and a precise, effective treatment regimen; her outlook was positive.  

Until that is, the hospital ran out of the drugs that were keeping her alive.

Abby’s mother Laura, from Florida, was shocked when, one afternoon

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What is ALS, disease that claimed life of Sandra Bullock’s partner Bryan Randall at 57?

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The progressive muscle-paralyzing disease that killed esteemed physicist Stephen Hawking has claimed the life of Sandra Bullock’s longtime partner. 

Photographer Bryan Randall, 57, privately battled amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) for three years before succumbing to the disease this week, according to a statement.

The progressive disease, which has a life expectancy of just two to five years, causes muscles to waste away. This leads to fatal full-body paralysis.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 31,000 Americans

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New Covid variant ‘Eris’ is now dominant, CDC says

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A new Covid variant is now dominant in the US, which may explain why rates are rising for the first time this year.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that as of Friday, more than one in six Covid cases are projected to be caused by Omicron subvariant EG.5 — more than any other variant. One strain, EG.5.1, has been nicknamed ‘Eris’.

Experts have said that EG.5 is one of the quickest growing variants across the world,

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Flea-borne disease that can shut organs down and cause limb amputations is surging in parts of the US

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A flea-borne disease that can lead to limb amputations is rising rapidly in some part of the US, an official study suggests.

Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that typhus cases caused by fleas have risen by more than tripled in Los Angeles County (LAC), California, since 2010.

CDC doctors said they have not noticed the disease getting more deadly, but it is a possibility and must be monitored. They think the rise has come

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Anthony Fauci’s replacement is finally revealed: New head of the NIAID is Dr Jeanne Marrazzo, an Alabama doctor who pushed for facemasks in schools and doesn’t shake people’s hands to avoid Covid

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An Alabama doctor who championed STD research has been revealed as the new head of America’s top infectious disease health agency.

Dr Jeanne Marrazzo, from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, will start her role as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in the fall.

She has big shoes to fill, with that position held by Dr Anthony Fauci, 82, for nearly four decades before he stepped down in December 2022.

Reacting to the announcement

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America’s STD explosion laid bare: As Houston records unprecedented rise in syphilis, DailyMail.com’s interactive maps show how infections are soaring across the board

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America is in the midst of an explosion of sexually transmitted diseases as these maps compiled by DailyMail.com using official data show.

Using the most up-to-date Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data, they show how every state has seen a spike in cases of syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease that can lead to organ damage, and gonorrhea, an STD that can cause infertility, between 2017 and 2021.

Only chlamydia, the most common STD in the US, appeared to

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Beijing’s secret Covid lab leak probe

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Chinese authorities secretly investigated a lab at the heart of the row over Covid’s origin after the pandemic began, an ex-insider sensationally revealed today.

President Xi Jinping’s communist administration has repeatedly denied the lab leak hypothesis throughout the pandemic, labelling it a smear campaign by ‘anti-China’ forces and insisting the virus emerged naturally in the city of Wuhan.

Yet Beijing considered the theory credible enough to instigate its own formal probe, according to the former chief of the country’s own

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