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Three Baltimore elementary students contract scarlet fever
Baltimore :: MD :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Walker, The Baltimore Sun School and health officials worked Friday to ease parents' fears after three classmates at George Washington Elementary in Southwest Baltimore were diagnosed with scarlet fever an ailment with a scary history, but one that
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Scarlet fever identified at Baltimore elementary school
Baltimore :: OH :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Scarlet fever is a common infection caused by streptococcus bacteria and spread by person-to-person contact, coughing and sneezing, according to the letter...If left untreated, complications such as rheumatic fever and kidney disease may ensue, the
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The possibility of zebras in primary care
Nashua :: NH :: USA | over 1 year ago
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After twenty two years working as a physician in college health and seeing two or three extraordinary cases every year, suddenly I've seen three once in a career patients in the last three months. Several weeks ago I saw an otherwise healthy student
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Guild welcomes $12 million rheumatic fever funding boost
Wellington :: New Zealand | over 1 year ago
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Rheumatic fever is a developing world problem and we should all be embarrassed that it is a problem in this country Ms Young says. The boost in funding, announced under an agreement between the National and Maori parties this week, will increase the
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Funding cut may hurt rheumatic fever battle
Auckland :: New Zealand | over 1 year ago
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Health officials warned the Government that the cut in funding for its Healthy Housing programme could undermine the $3 million-a-year scheme to combat rheumatic fever. New Zealand has what many health workers consider a scandalously high rate of
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NZ govt defends child health record
Auckland :: New Zealand | over 1 year ago
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Story continues below "Immunisation rates have increased and 22,000 children in the most at-risk areas are part of a $NZ12 million ($A9.13 million) throat swabbing and antibiotic follow-up programme to fight rheumatic fever." Labour's deputy leader,
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Take rheumatic fever to heart
Petaling Jaya :: Malaysia | over 1 year ago
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There have been cases of children and young adults suffering from heart disease and some ending in death. This could actually be traced to rheumatic fever which had occurred earlier in their lives, National Heart Institute (IJN) consultant
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Broadsides: Building a better health system
Auckland :: New Zealand | over 1 year ago
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Labour's Jacinda Ardern and National's Nikki Kaye on what can be done to improve New Zealand's health system. There's a reason why the Health portfolio in politics is considered a bit of a poisoned chalice...Now more than ever, health is becoming a
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Decision makers told to focus on rheumatic fever
Auckland :: New Zealand | over 1 year ago
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A study on the illness has been published in today's New Zealand Medical Journal. The Heart Foundation's Medical Director, Professor Norman Sharpe, says rheumatic fever is a third world disease, and generally a marker of social deprivation, poverty
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Community pharmacy ready to take part in public health
California City :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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New Zealand Doctor this week reported claims by a number of frontline health professionals that funding for a rheumatic fever throat swabbing campaign in Counties Manukau was inadequate. It reported the Ministry of Health had allocated $12 million in
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