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Whooping cough risks and symptoms
Los Angeles TimesWhooping cough is a respiratory infection caused by the Bordetella pertussis bacterium. An airborne disease that can also be spread through direct contact, it infects infants when someone with the disease breathes on them or coughs or sneezes in close...Tags: Illnesses, Diseases and Illnesses, Allergies, Adults, Family
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Business People - Feb. 6
Washington County Health Department Carla Freeman has been named Washington County Health Department's Employee of the Quarter for the first quarter of 2011. Freeman has been employed by the health department since 2008, where she works as a community...Tags: Cultural Development, Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia), Human Body, Diseases and Illnesses, Clubs and Associations
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A public health merger in Chicago?
Health care experts and some public officials are floating a radical idea as Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel prepares to take office: a full or partial merger of Chicago and Cook County's health departments.
Operating a single health department with broader...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Career and Workplace, Restructuring and Recapitalization, Nashville, Ansell Limited
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Swine flu Q & A
Tribune reportersPart of a baby's protection against the H1N1 flu depends on its most natural interactions with its mother, but other measures are needed as well. Below, Tribune reporters address questions from readers about the swine flu virus: Q: Do newborn children...Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Career and Workplace, Emergency Planning, Fever, Hands
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Swine Flu
U.S. News & World ReportFrequent questions and their answers. Photo: JAY DIRECTO/AFP/Getty Images The outbreak of a new form of swine flu has prompted the United States and the World Health Organization to declare a public health emergency. President Obama called the...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Viral Diseases and Infections, Eyewear, Symptoms, Travel
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Chapter 4: Immigrants
Sun-SentinelChapter 4: Immigrants As immigrants struggle to talk to a doctor, take a pill or even admit they're ill, they face daunting roadblocks: Different culture. Different language. Different beliefs. LOVE When all hope had vanished, she found reason to live...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Viral Diseases and Infections, Career and Workplace, Minority Groups, Rituals
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U.N. Warns of Disease in Affected Areas
Associated Press WriterThe United Nations warned Wednesday that respiratory and waterborne diseases could break out in areas affected by southern Asia's tsunami disaster "in the next few days." Although relief organizations are distributing medical supplies to prevent the...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Relief and Aid Organizations, Disasters and Accidents, United Nations, Natural Disasters
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'We die lying to ourselves'
Tribune foreign correspondentThandiwe Mwandla can't give her sugar cane away these days, much less sell it. The same goes for her sweet bananas and corn and the hard little peaches that grow in her garden. The fruit has AIDS, people say. Switching from farmer to tailor, Mwandla, 45,...Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Diseases and Illnesses, Career and Workplace, Bubonic Plague, Rape
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Ghastly ebola unlikely to be last of its kind
Tribune foreign correspondentThe wind has no name. But it is a fierce wind, a bad wind, and when it blows down this tar-black jungle river most people run. Because it turns their eyes to color of blood. Because the wind kills them. Isidore Edjimouagno knows. He survived the evil...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Illnesses, Diseases and Illnesses, Viral Diseases and Infections, Career and Workplace
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AIDS at 20 years: Patients hope while fight goes on
Health WriterWhat was once a near-automatic death sentence is now treatable. But AIDS still has no cure, and complacency and ignorance about the disease could put millions more at risk of being consumed by this unrelenting, global epidemic. Twenty years ago, on...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Viral Diseases and Infections, Minority Groups, Gays and Lesbians, South Beach (Staten Island, New York)
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