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Genome sequencing used to halt superbug outbreak

By Reuters | November 14, 2012

Researchers have used DNA sequencing for the first time to identify, analyze and put a halt to an infectious disease outbreak in a hospital.
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Feds look to mine social media for outbreak info

By Rich Daly | November 08, 2012 | Basic Web

Facebook may become a tool in containing the next disease outbreak under a pilot program to mine social networks for real-time public health data.
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Doctors grapple with best meningitis treatment

By Wall Street Journal | October 29, 2012

Infectious-disease doctor Thomas Kerkering has spent part of his career researching ways to treat fungal meningitis, which has given him more experience than most doctors on the front lines of the current outbreak linked to contaminated steroid shots.
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A formidable foe | Collaborative efforts target C. diff after infections hit 'historically high levels'

By Maureen McKinney | October 27, 2012 | Print Magazine

Even as hospitals, not-for-profit groups and government agencies tout the successes from their efforts to prevent healthcare-associated infections, rates of Clostridium difficile, a highly contagious and dangerous bug, have continued to grow.
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Pharmacy tied to outbreak knew of bacteria

By Associated Press | October 27, 2012

Staffers at a pharmacy linked to the deadly meningitis outbreak documented dozens of cases of mold and bacteria growing in rooms that were supposed to be sterile, according to federal health inspectors.
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Malaria creeps back into Greece amid health budget cuts

By NPR | October 26, 2012

After a 40-year hiatus, malaria is returning to Greece. Some 70 cases have been reported there this year, and at least 12 people appear to have been infected in the country. (The others picked up the disease elsewhere.)
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Records detail Mass. firm linked to meningitis

By Associated Press | October 23, 2012

New state documents detail problems found in 2006 by an outside firm hired to do an assessment at the Massachusetts company at the center of a deadly meningitis outbreak.
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Doctors see long recovery for meningitis victims

By CBS News via WIBW.com (Topeka, Kan.) | October 23, 2012

Vilinda York lies in her Florida hospital bed, facing a dry-erase board that lists in green marker her name, her four doctors and a smiley face.
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Before meningitis outbreak, concern at FDA about compounders

By New York Times | October 23, 2012

A year before people began dying of meningitis caused by a tainted drug from a compounding pharmacy, the FDA worried that compounders across the U.S. might be selling another substandard drug.
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Meningitis risk haunts 14,000

By New York Times | October 22, 2012

Cathy Literski could tell something was wrong just from her mother's voice on the telephone.
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