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A live bat recently found in front of a Seal Beach department store tested positive for rabies, making it the fifth rabid bat found in Orange County last month, officials said health on Thursday. The bat was found about 8 p.m. Sunday in front of Kohl's, at 12345 Seal Beach Blvd. Rabid detectives were found in Anaheim on Sept. 18 …

State health officials on Thursday announced confirmation of a third-person West Nile virus case in Massachusetts this year. The virus was discovered in a man in the 60s from Middlesex County last month, a spokesman for the state Department of Public Health said in a statement. "We continue to emphasize the need for people to protect themselves from mosquito bites, …

Three different types of sexually transmitted diseases have been at their highest in 30 years, according to California health officials. Syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia are in California. Across the United States, infections from both three STDs increased for the fifth consecutive year. More than 1.7 million cases of chlamydia were reported last year, according to the Center for Disease Control …

On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released an annual report revealing the number of combined cases of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia a record high last year. Titled "Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance Report", the report noted that in 2018, there were more than 2.4 million infections in syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia – an increase of more than …

A vaccine undergoing a Mayo Clinic trial has reportedly removed cancer cells in a breast cancer patient. Florida resident Lee Mercker became the first patient to participate in a clinical trial for a new vaccine after being diagnosed in March early He told First Coast News that he had "DCIS stage zero "breast cancer, which means the cancer cells have …

Thirty-six American Airlines passengers were discovered to have been exposed to hepatitis A by a flight attendant, ABC affiliate WSOC-TV reported. A representative for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. Business Insider informed that the American Airlines flight attendant mentioned in the WSOC-TV story has confirmed that hepatitis A. The arriving flight had symptoms of multiple illnesses, …

In recent years, public health authorities have been sounding the alarm about teenagers firing – especially as the popular Juul vape has taken place on social media. But more recent vaping safety crises are a bit more concrete: vape pens explosion, seizures, and lung injury. Prior to the abduction of attention in the lungs, lawmakers were nervous about how many …

The long story of sildenafil citrate, known by the brand Viagra, may have another chapter here. Researchers at the University of California Santa Cruz believe the drug could improve how we perform bone marrow transplants, as part of a combination therapy that allows doctors to harvest stem cells from in patients faster and safer than traditional methods. So far, however, …

A new drug, created to treat just one patient, has pushed the bounds of personalized medicine and has raised unexplored regulatory and ethical questions, scientists reported Wednesday. The drug, described in the New England Journal of Medicine, is believed to be the first “custom” treatment for a genetic disease. It is called milasen, named after the only patient who will …