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The MERS Outbreak: Is The Government Doing Enough?
The Centers for Disease Control and World Health Organization claim they are hard at work to keep a major outbreak known as MERS from reaching the general population. MERS, or Middle East Respiratory...
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Non-Profit Joins Fight Against Ebola Outbreak, Sends Supplies
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - A Dallas-based charity will send medical supplies to West Africa to help fight the Ebola outbreak. Next week volunteers with Medisend International will pack up and send thousands...
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Ebola Outbreak Not A Concern In U.S. Say Health Officials
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are monitoring the Ebola outbreak in Africa but say the risk of the deadly germ spreading to the United States is remote. The Centers for Disease Control on Monday...
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North Texas Hospitals On Alert Over Ebola Outbreak
FORT WORTH, Texas (CBS 11 NEWS) – North Texas hospitals are on alert because of the Ebola outbreak. Inside the JPS Hospital Emergency Room in Fort Worth they are screening every patient that walks...
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Researchers Fighting Foodborne Illness With Bacteria
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter NEWARK, Del. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Foodborne illnesses pose a serious health concern for consumers and a potentially devastating risk to the companies associated with...
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Parents Concerned After Mumps Outbreak In Johnson County
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter JOHNSON COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM) – A once common contagious disease has sprouted up in a North Texas town causing a local school district to issue a health warning. At...
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Parents Concerned After Mumps Outbreak Hits Cedar Hill ISD
Follow CBSDFW.COM: Facebook | Twitter CEDAR HILL (CBSDFW.COM) – The 64 cases of mumps through Cedar Hill ISD have now been cleared according to school district officials. They say every single person...
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109 U.S. Salmonella Cases Now Linked To Papayas From Mexico
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — U.S. health officials say more people have contracted salmonella by eating papayas from a farm in southern Mexico. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 109...
View ArticleRestaurants Try To Calm Customers, Say Their Romaine Is Safe
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Restaurants’ advice to their customers? Romaine calm. The government is still investigating how romaine lettuce from Yuma, Arizona, apparently became contaminated with E. coli...
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Texas Now Among States Reporting E Coli Illness Linked To Romaine Lettuce
NEW YORK (AP) — Texas is among the four new states reporting illnesses in a food poisoning outbreak linked to romaine lettuce. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its numbers on the...
View Article5 Dead, Nearly 200 Sickened In Romaine Lettuce Outbreak
NEW YORK (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Four more deaths have been linked to a national food poisoning outbreak blamed on tainted Arizona-grown romaine lettuce, bringing the total to five. The Arizona growing...
View ArticleApple iPhone Chip Supplier Says Virus Will Delay Shipments
TAIWAN (AP) – A company that makes semiconductors for Apple iPhones says it is recovering from a virus outbreak but expects the incident to delay shipments and raise costs. Taiwan Semiconductor Co....
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Volunteers Try To Save Dogs During Distemper Crisis At North Texas Animal...
GARLAND, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – An evacuation is underway in Garland. It’s an effort to save dogs from an outbreak of a deadly disease at Garland Animal Services where more than two dozen dogs have been...
View ArticleCDC Warns ‘Don’t Eat Kellogg’s Honey Smacks’
NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – The Center For Disease Control is warning people not to eat Kellogg’s Honey Smacks cereal, which is linked to a Salmonella outbreak that continues to make people sick. This...
View ArticleHoney Smacks Returns To Shelves With New Recipe After Recall
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (CBSDFW.COM/AP) — Kellogg’s Honey Smacks is returning to shelves following a voluntarily recall after salmonella infected 100 people in 33 states. The company announced on Monday...
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CDC: Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak ‘Appears To Be Over’
(CBSDFW.COM/CNN) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that the E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce “appears to be over.” In all, 62 people in 16 states became...
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Texan Sickened After Touching Salmonella-Infected Hedgehog
(CBSDFW.COM) – One person in Texas and 26 other people in the country have fallen ill after a multistate outbreak of Salmonella infections linked to contact with pet hedgehogs. States Impacted By...
View ArticleResearch Shows Two Treatments Effective Against Deadly Ebola Strain
(CBSDFW.COM) – New research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows two investigational Ebola treatments used in the ongoing outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are...
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US Health Officials Investigating E. Coli Outbreak In California-Grown...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating an E. coli outbreak that has sickened 40 people in more than a dozen states.
View ArticleMedStar Joins Area Hospitals In Taking Preventative Measures Against Coronavirus
NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – In addition to area hospitals, MedStar is undertaking extra preventative measures amid a potential coronavirus outbreak. They’re beginning additional dispatch and on-scene...
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