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Colorado adult dies from hantavirus; case not linked to cruise ship outbreak

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 5/17 9:43A Scripps News Group
An adult Colorado resident has died from hantavirus, state and county health officials reported on Saturday. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) said its investigating the incident and said the Douglas County case is...

France confirms hantavirus in cruise outbreak is not new or more transmissible

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 5/16 7:38A AP via Scripps News Group
Frances Pasteur Institute said it has fully sequenced the Andes strain of the hantavirus detected in a French passenger from the MV Hondius cruise ship and found that it matched viruses already known in South America, with no evidence so far of...

Doctor moved out of biocontainment unit after being cleared of hantavirus

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 5/14 2:57A AP via Scripps News Group
An oncologist traveling on the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak has been cleared to leave a special biocontainment unit in Nebraska, where he was the lone American placed in isolation after he helped care for fellow passengers...

French hantavirus patient critically ill, being treated with artificial lung

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 5/13 3:48A AP via Scripps News Group
A French woman infected in the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship is critically ill and being treated with an artificial lung, a doctor at the Paris hospital caring for the sickened passenger said Tuesday. The outbreak has now reached 11...

Health condition known as PCOS is being renamed to PMOS. Here's why

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 5/12 10:50A Taylor O'Bier
The medical condition long known as polycystic ovary syndrome, PCOS, has a new name that medical professionals claim is more accurate and hope will lead to improvements in diagnosis and care. It will now be called polyendocrine metabolic ovarian...

Kansas monitoring 3 people tied to cruise ship hantavirus outbreak

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 5/12 9:37A Kadia Tubman
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to monitor three new people who were exposed abroad to the hantavirus outbreak. It comes after passengers aboard the cruise ship...

Dr. Marty Makary resigns as FDA commissioner

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 5/12 7:45A AP via Scripps News Group
The head of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Marty Makary, is resigning after a rocky tenure that drew months of complaints from health industry executives, anti-abortion activists and other allies of President Donald Trump. He steps down...

Survey highlights gap between SPF awareness and daily use among Americans

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 5/12 6:26A Talker Research via Scripps News
Which screen wins your attention your phone screen or sunscreen? According to a new study, Americans are four times as likely to remember to plug their phone in at night than they are to put sunscreen on daily. The poll of 2,000 U.S. adults...

Small study hints that revving up immune cells might help fight HIV

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 5/12 5:08A By LAURAN NEERGAARD
WASHINGTON (AP) Scientists are tweaking a powerful cancer therapy in hopes it could fight HIV instead, by supercharging patients' own immune cells . On Tuesday, researchers said a single dose of those revved-up cells strongly suppressed HIV in...
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