http://infectiousdiseases.about.com/ Get the latest headlines from the About.com Infectious Diseases GuideSite. http://z.about.com/f/lg/s10.gif http://www.about.com/ 118 20 en-us 2008-06-14T06:00:32Z Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:00:32 +0000 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://infectiousdiseases.about.com/b/2008/06/20/think-you-have-what-it-takes-to-be-the-infectious-diseases-guide.htm We're looking for passionate and enthusiastic individual to be the Guide to the Infectious Diseases site on About.com! What sort of information do we want the new Guide to provide? Well, we're... http://infectiousdiseases.about.com/b/2008/06/20/think-you-have-what-it-takes-to-be-the-infectious-diseases-guide.htm Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:44:05 +0000 2008-06-20T16:44:05Z http://infectiousdiseases.about.com/b/2008/06/14/one-quarter-of-new-yorkers-have-genital-herpes.htm Actually 26% of adult residents of New York City has herpes simplex virus 2, the kind that causes genital herpes according the New York Times citing a report from the... http://infectiousdiseases.about.com/b/2008/06/14/one-quarter-of-new-yorkers-have-genital-herpes.htm Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:00:32 +0000 2008-06-14T06:00:32Z http://infectiousdiseases.about.com/b/2008/06/12/deadly-strain-of-lyme-disease-found-common.htm CBS news reports via WebMD that a particularly bad strain of Lyme disease bacteria is one of the most common strains found in the past 20 years. The good... http://infectiousdiseases.about.com/b/2008/06/12/deadly-strain-of-lyme-disease-found-common.htm Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:00:57 +0000 2008-06-12T06:00:57Z http://infectiousdiseases.about.com/b/2008/06/11/tb-infection-makes-hiv-cure-difficult.htm Tuberculosis is a common complication of HIV/AIDS and the spread of TB among people with HIV/AIDS is making treatment of those patients more difficult, reports the New York Times. ... http://infectiousdiseases.about.com/b/2008/06/11/tb-infection-makes-hiv-cure-difficult.htm Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:16:24 +0000 2008-06-11T06:16:24Z http://infectiousdiseases.about.com/b/2008/06/10/h5n1-detected-in-hong-kong-2700-birds-killed.htm Bird flu has returned to the island of Hong Kong after not appearing seriously since 1997 when the first human was found to be affected with the H5N1 virus, a... http://infectiousdiseases.about.com/b/2008/06/10/h5n1-detected-in-hong-kong-2700-birds-killed.htm Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:42:14 +0000 2008-06-10T16:42:14Z http://infectiousdiseases.about.com/b/2008/06/10/h7n2-and-h7n3-bird-flu-may-infect-humans.htm Bird flu comes in many different strains with H5N1 being the most deadly to humans so far. The CDC reports though that other strains, H7N2 and H7N3 may be... http://infectiousdiseases.about.com/b/2008/06/10/h7n2-and-h7n3-bird-flu-may-infect-humans.htm Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:14:37 +0000 2008-06-10T16:14:37Z http://infectiousdiseases.about.com/b/2008/06/10/salmonella-forces-mcds-to-pull-red-tomatoes.htm McDonald's and other restaurants serving fresh red tomatoes are taking tomatoes off the menu as salmonella has already infected 145 people in the United States, according to NPR news. ... http://infectiousdiseases.about.com/b/2008/06/10/salmonella-forces-mcds-to-pull-red-tomatoes.htm Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:15:31 +0000 2008-06-10T15:15:31Z http://infectiousdiseases.about.com/b/2008/04/29/chinese-government-relocating-tibetans-to-avoid-disease.htm Xinhua news reports that the Chinese government plans to relocate 77,000 people from the Tibetan region of Aba by 2013 in order to avoid Kaschin-Beck disease. The cause of... http://infectiousdiseases.about.com/b/2008/04/29/chinese-government-relocating-tibetans-to-avoid-disease.htm Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:00:11 +0000 2008-04-29T06:00:11Z http://infectiousdiseases.about.com/b/2008/04/28/mrsa-pvl-strain-particularly-deadly.htm UK newspapers tend to report infectious disease news trends faster than US papers. The Times Online reports a "playground superbug" which turns out to be a strain of MRSA... http://infectiousdiseases.about.com/b/2008/04/28/mrsa-pvl-strain-particularly-deadly.htm Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:00:36 +0000 2008-04-28T06:00:36Z http://infectiousdiseases.about.com/b/2008/04/27/indonesia-holds-bird-flu-epidemic-drill.htm AP news reports that Indonesia is wrapping up a bird flu epidemic drill. Indonesia is the most likely site of a human-to-human bird flu epidemic, so quashing an epidemic... http://infectiousdiseases.about.com/b/2008/04/27/indonesia-holds-bird-flu-epidemic-drill.htm Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:24:36 +0000 2008-04-27T15:24:36Z