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Hand-Foot-Mouth menace
When Jonah Posner developed a fever last spring, his mother, Tracy, didn’t think much of it. The then-2-year-old was eating, drinking and sleeping as he usually did. “He had no other symptoms besides the fever,” Tracy Posner says....
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hand, foot and mouth disease, Acetaminophen (drug), Skin Rash
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Flu 411: What everyone needs to know
It's flu season in Baltimore. A few days after Christmas, Baltimore resident Kathleen Dudley began experiencing telltale signs of the flu — fever, chills, body aches, sore throat, cough and overall exhaustion. "The worst part — the fever...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Symptoms, Flu, Karen Black, Sore Throat
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Hospitals seeing large number of patients with flu symptoms
Area hospitals are coping with a surge of patients with achy bodies, fevers and sore throats as the nation grapples with a flu season that has hit earlier and harder than usual.
The flu virus is unpredictable, so no one knows when the outbreak will...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Symptoms, Diabetes, Flu, Respiratory Disease
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Flu declared epidemic by CDC
Federal health officials declared this season's flu outbreak an epidemic Friday as Maryland hospitals and clinics continued to treat unusually high numbers of patients for the virus and manufacturers reported low supplies of the vaccine to treat the...
Tags: Family, Diseases and Illnesses, Symptoms, Flu, Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Why flu shots won't give you the flu
It inevitably happens to people every flu season - they obediently get a flu shot only to catch the virus anyway. But don't blame the flu shot. Despite what many people believe, the flu shot doesn't cause the flu. The influenza viruses in the shot...
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Symptoms, Flu, Preventative Medicine, Viral Diseases and Infections
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The spirit moves her: Milla Hniang's journey to a dream
What people go through to live their lives — war and terror, disease and pain, poverty and hunger, long journeys across continents and oceans, loss and heartbreak — always leaves me awed and humbled. You hear a story, like the one I’m...
Tags: Howard County, Diseases and Illnesses, Preventative Medicine, Keith Urban, Alan Jackson
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The flu strikes hard in Harford
The unusually active flu season continues at full tilt in Harford County, with many of those who haven't either been sick or vaccinated against the illness scrambling to get inoculated. More than 700 people got vaccinated at flu clinics in Harford...
Tags: Family, Woodbridge, Diseases and Illnesses, Harford County, Symptoms
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Pondering when old age officially, or unofficially, starts to set in
Editor: Here's a big question: When does old age begin? I have the answer. And, I got it by surprise. Recently, I saw my physician for a routine examination and health review. During the visit she declared for the record, that I made it to old age. On...Tags: General Practitioners, Diseases and Illnesses, Preventative Medicine, Pneumonia, Disease Prevention
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Fake vaccine and Kardashian pregnant, shame on us
Is it any wonder America is distrusted and held in contempt around the world? I was unaware my tax dollars were paying for fake polio vaccination programs in Pakistan (and no doubt elsewhere). What a dreadful way to "win the hearts and minds" of a...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Pakistan, Preventative Medicine, Kim Kardashian, Drugs and Medicines
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50 Years Ago: Work begins on Bel Air Bypass bridge over Vale Road
As taken from the pages of The Aegis dated Thursday, November 22, 1962: Work began 50 years ago this week on the long awaited Bel Air By-pass bridge over Vale Road. Construction began on the Noyes Estate on Vale Road. The bridge was one of several...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Dentistry and Dental Health, New York City, Preventative Medicine, Turkey (animal)
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CIA's outrageous fake vaccination plot
The CIA is probably smug and triumphant about its duplicitous vaccination drive in Abbotabad, a mission hatched to catch and kill Osama bin Laden ("A tainted polio program," Jan. 7). As a doctor, I cringe to think of this unscrupulous use of medicine...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Tetanus, Osama bin Laden, Preventative Medicine, Drugs and Medicines
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Harford residents urged to get their flu shots
Harford County Executive David R. Craig got his flue shot, and he's urging all Harford residents to get one as well. His vaccination was administered by the Harford County Health Department in Bel Air. "Flu season is upon us and I join with the Harford...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Symptoms, Respiratory Disease, Diabetes, Flu
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