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A smoke-filled stench fills a refugee camp just a short walk from the U.S.-Mexico border, rising from ever-burning fires and piles of human waste. Parents and children live in a sea of tents and tarps, some patched together with garbage bags. Others sleep outside in temperatures that recently dropped to freezing. Justina, an asylum seeker who fled political persecution in...

Frozen raspberries sold at Aldi Grocery Stores and Raley’s Family of Fine Stores have been recalled after it was discovered that some were potentially contaminated with Hepatitis A virus.

Management for Pequot Highlands Apartments in Salem, Massachusetts, says two of its residents have confirmed cases of Legionnaires’ disease.

Two residents of a Massachusetts apartment complex have been diagnosed with Legionnaires disease, apartment management tells NBC10 Boston/necn. Management for Pequot Highlands Apartments says they were notified on Thursday, Oct. 3 by the Salem Board of Health that two of their residents had confirmed cases of the disease, a serious form of pneumonia that is spread from aerosolized water that...

Six more Connecticut residents have reported vaping related lung injuries, public health officials said Friday.

Gravely ill, Greg Manteufel lost parts of his arms and legs, as well as the skin of his nose and part of his upper lip. The cause was capnocytophaga, a germ from Ellie’s mouth or from another dog he encountered. Capnocytophaga is commonly found in the saliva of cats and dogs and almost never leads to people getting sick, unless...

A Central Texas girl died after her family says she contracted a brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a river over Labor Day weekend.

A horse in New Hampshire has been diagnosed with the Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus infection for the first time this year, according to health officials. The virus was detected in a horse from Northwood, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services said.

A teenage girl with measles visited Disneyland, Disney California Adventure and Universal Studios theme parks this month and may have exposed other park-goers to the disease, Orange and Los Angeles County health officials said Friday.

Dole Fresh Vegetables, Inc., is recalling a limited number of cases of baby spinach over concerns about possible health risk from Salmonella.

A New Britain man contracted flesh-eating bacteria and had to have his leg amputated after swimming at Hammonasset Beach State Park, according to his family.

The parents of the toddler who died after getting E. coli at the San Diego County Fair and two other families whose kids contracted the disease have filed claims against the 22nd District Agricultural Association, the state agency that runs the fair and the petting zoo at the Del Mar Fairgrounds.

A North Carolina man has died from a rare brain-eating amoeba after swimming in a manmade lake at a water park, officials said Wednesday. The state Department of Health and Human Resources said in a news release that the infection was caused by the amoeba naturally present in warm freshwater during the summer. The unnamed person became sick after swimming...

The Ebola virus is once again wreaking havoc in the war-torn North Kivu and Ituri provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, claiming an estimated 1,625 lives so far in its second-deadliest outbreak ever. The ongoing outbreak follows the most devastating Ebola epidemic in history, which killed 11,310 and infected 28,616 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in...

The Ebola virus is once again wreaking havoc in the war-torn North Kivu and Ituri provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, claiming an estimated 1,625 lives so far in its second-deadliest outbreak ever. The ongoing outbreak follows the most devastating Ebola epidemic in history, which killed 11,310 and infected 28,616 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in...

A toddler has died after contracting E. coli after coming into contact with animals at the 2019 San Diego County Fair, health officials confirmed.

A toddler has died after contracting E. coli after coming into contact with animals at the 2019 San Diego County Fair, health officials confirmed.

Cheryl Healton remembers the look on her mother’s face when the then 8-year old was diagnosed with measles in 1961. “I could tell by her reaction that my life was at risk,” said Healton, now 66 and the dean of New York University’s College of Global Public Health. It was. While measles is best known for the rash it produces,...

State health officials are warning of possible hepatitis A exposure for anyone who recently ate at a Rockport, Massachusetts seafood restaurant. The Department of Public Health is urging anyone who ate cold or uncooked food or is unsure what they ate between April 21 and May 12 at Roy Moore’s Fish Shack to contact their health care provider because of...

During a recent walk in the woods, Stephanie Tait moved slowly, leaning into her cane when necessary, and pausing to take a break every few steps. She is 34 years old. Tait, a mother of two in Salem, Oregon, was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2016. Since she was a teenager, she’s struggled with multiple health issues that she now...