October 28, 2015 Officials seek students who partied with Oregon man stricken by meningococcal disease Public health officials are working to identify and offer antibiotics to about 20 University of Oregon students who attended a fraternity party at the home of a man diagnosed this week with a potentially deadly meningococcemia infection, authorities said on Wednesday. Â
October 28, 2015 Q&A: Measles pops up in outbreak linked to Disneyland parks Measles cases have been popping up around California in an outbreak linked to visits to Disney theme parks in Orange County during the winter holiday.
October 28, 2015 South Korea halts US poultry imports due to bird flu South Korea has suspended imports of U.S. poultry and poultry products because of an outbreak of bird flu in the United States, the Agriculture Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
October 28, 2015 Sierra Leone to cordon off three Ebola 'hotspots' home to 1.5 million Sierra Leone restricted travel Thursday into and within three more "hotspots" of Ebola where 1.5 million people live, meaning that more than a third of the country's population is now under quarantine.
October 28, 2015 Obama to detail plans on Ebola offensive on Tuesday: WSJ U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to detail on Tuesday a plan to boost his country's involvement in mitigating the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
October 28, 2015 Child diagnosed with measles on Martha’s Vineyard An unidentified child was diagnosed with measles on Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., leading hospital officials on the island to warn community members that the child was infectious from Monday, June 8 through Wednesday, June 17, MyFoxBoston.com reported.
October 28, 2015 Food tracking app links less sleeping to more eating Even people who think they eat three meals a day may actually graze for most of their waking hours and consume fewer calories when they get more sleep, a small U.S. study suggests.
October 28, 2015 Canada reports H5N1 bird flu virus in British Columbia Canada reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu virus in the province of British Columbia, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday.
October 28, 2015 Factbox: The worst Ebola outbreak on record West Africa is struggling with the worst Ebola outbreak since the disease was identified in 1976, and the first case has been diagnosed in the United States.
October 28, 2015 4 new polio cases detected in Pakistan, official says A health official in Pakistan says four new polio cases have been detected in the country, bringing the number of children affected by the crippling disease this year to 276.