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Fever

New test could help catch serious infections in babies

A simple blood test may help detect serious bacterial infections (SBIs) like urinary tract infections and blood stream infections in young infants who come to the emergency department (ED) with fevers that have no clear cause.

S.Africa on alert after fatal bleeding sickness

Source: Reuters JOHANNESBURG, Oct 6 (Reuters) - South African health authorities are on high alert after three people died in hospital from an unknown, infectious disease similar to hemorrhagic fever, health ...

Doctors: No hamsters, exotic pets for kids

CHICAGO - Also, kids that young should avoid contact with these animals in petting zoos or other public places, according to the report from the American Academy of Pediatrics. The report appears in the October edition of the...

Viral fever claims fourth victim

A fourth person with Viral Haemorragic Fever (VHF) symptoms has died. The virus has already claimed the lives of a Zambian national and two other people at the Morningside Clinic in Johannesburg. The woman was a cleaner at the...

Mystery flu-like disease kills four in Johannesburg

Johannesburg - South Africa's health department urged South Africans not to panic as the death toll from a highly contagious mystery disease with flu-like symptoms in Johannesburg reached four. The first patient to succumb to...

Gauteng hospitals 'on high alert'

Antoinette Pienaar, Beeld Johannesburg - The National Institute for Communicable Diseases is urgently doing tests to determine the origin of a highly contagious disease that has already killed three people in Gauteng. The...

Nine succumb to brain fever

Gorakhpur (PTI): As many as nine children succumbed to deadly brain fever at Baba Raghav Das Medical College and other hospitals here during past two days, official sources said here on Monday. With this the total death toll...

Parents can fret needlessly over fever

Parents, do you suffer from fever phobia? Have you ever: •Awakened a sleeping child to take his or her temperature? •Chased down a running, giggling but slightly feverish child with a dose of Tylenol? •Forced a whimpering,...

Respiratory problems re-emerge as summer wanes

Saturday, October 04, 2008 by Shahina Maqbool Islamabad The summer of 2008 is beginning to wane but not without leaving behind a milieu of respiratory problems. According to Dr Osman Yusuf, one of the global experts of the...

OAKLAND COUNTY: Fevers, hallucinations tied to commonly found plant

At least five teenagers from the Royal Oak and Troy area have been treated for high temperatures, hallucinations and other symptoms after chewing on jimsonweed, a plant commonly found in yards, authorities said.

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