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CDC warns that virus mutations have made flu vaccines less effective

Dec 5, 2014

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued a warning that more deaths and hospitalizations could result from the ineffectiveness of current flu vaccines to destroy new mutations of the flu vi...

Flu vaccine may not be fully effective this year

CDC warns current Flu vaccines may not be effective, and no time to develop new ones

Amanda

Dec 5, 2014

Health

This flu season could be severe, warned the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) because the virus strains which have seen to be active this year are not matched with the current vaccine. More ...

Active American smokers decline to 42 million smokers

Charles Omedo

Nov 27, 2014

Health

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a report that indicates that smoking among American adults has dipped below 18%, and this is the case for about two years now. A dip of 18% r...

CDC says 7 out of 10 HIV-infected Americans neglect to take prescribed medications

Charles Omedo

Nov 26, 2014

Health

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a report to indicate that only 30% of people infected with HIV/AIDS take their anti-retro-viral drugs regularly, and this results to only 3 o...

CDC study says Nine out of ten excessive drinkers are not alcoholics

Charles Omedo

Nov 21, 2014

Health

A new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed that nine out of ten heavy drinkers are not alcoholics because they do not satisfy the criteria for classifying alcoholics. ...

CDC research finds most people who drink excessively are not alcoholics

Jayaram Pawar

Nov 21, 2014

Health

A new government report states that most of the people who drink heavily to get high are not alcoholics. The study also affirms that there is more that can be done to help heavy drinkers to cut down on their al...

Health workers get model Ebola protection in California

Charles Omedo

Nov 15, 2014

Health

Following a nationwide nurses’ protests demanding for stronger protections for health workers treating Ebola patients, the state of California now requires that the 300 specialized hospitals for acute care prov...

CDC Chief faces criticism as Dallas hospital nurse contracts Ebola

Charles Omedo

Oct 13, 2014

Health

The president of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Thomas Frieden and CDC as a whole have come under heavy criticism for saying a “protocol breach” must have been responsible for a hospi...

CDC now receives 800 daily phone calls over Ebola

Charles Omedo

Oct 5, 2014

Health

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that the agency now receives an average of 800 phone calls every day since the Ebola scare came to town in the United States. This was revealed by CDC’s...

CDC confirms Enterovirus 68 claimed life of four year old kid in New Jersey

Charles Omedo

Oct 4, 2014

Health

Following the widening spread of the enterovirus 68 disease among many American kids, the death has been reported of a 4 year old boy, Eli Waller, whom the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confi...

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