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CDC investigates whether hot dogs caused two deaths

...Sabrett's and Western Beef. Food contaminated by the listeria bacteria can cause listerosis, an uncommon but potentially fatal disease. Healthy people rarely contract the disease that has symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, neck stiffness...

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CDC: Four listeriosis deaths linked to recalled poultry products

...flu-like symptoms of the disease for another month, said Osterholm. Listeriosis is an uncommon but potentially fatal disease with symptoms, including high fever, severe headache, neck stiffness and nausea.

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Tests show progress against Huntington's

...is very important because it provides the first reasonable explanation for how the huntingtin mutation leads to the fatal disease," said Rudy Tanzi, director of the genetics and aging unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. "The finding provides...

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Preventing suicide

...treating suicide as a public health issue, she said, depression and mental illness finally may get treated as possibly fatal diseases. "Living with untreated depression, it's no life at all," Casey said. Advocates like Casey and those who have...

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Fighting pediatric AIDS

...the Maternal Child HIV Center at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. "It shows we've moved from a fatal disease to a chronic illness that can be treated." On the Net: http://www.nejm.com Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials...

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Vaccine maker to donate millions of smallpox doses

...Although they stress that the likelihood of a smallpox attack remains low, the highly contagious nature of the often fatal disease makes it a grave threat. Current policy calls for stockpiling smallpox vaccine and tapping that reserve only if an...

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Names and faces

...she's not dying of hepatitis C. The former "Baywatch" star admitted in March that she's lived with the potentially fatal disease for years. "Now I have people coming out of the deli hugging me because they think I'm dying," Anderson told...

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Charity golf event to be Sunday for East Gull Lake teen

...charity golf event is planned Sunday at The Legacy at Cragun's for an East Gull Lake teen-ager who is battling a fatal disease. Derrik Kuschel, 18, East Gull Lake, was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis shortly after birth, the No. 1 genetic...

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Smallbox vaccine use sparks federal debate

...recommended it? Smallpox was wiped out worldwide two decades ago, but experts fear that the highly contagious, often fatal disease could return in an attack by terrorists or a hostile nation. Routine vaccinations ended in this country in 1972...

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Area briefs

...for Friday at The Legacy at Cragun's, an event that raises funds for an East Gull Lake teenager who is battling a fatal disease. Derrik Kuschel, 19, the son of Albie and Jodi Kuschel of East Gull Lake, was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis shortly...

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