Smallpox vaccine may cause harmless skin rashes
...er one to three weeks--and were not accompanied by fever or any other serious symptoms. The harmlessness of the vaccinia-associated skin rashes makes the findings important, according to Dr. Richard Greenberg, lead author of the study, which took place from July of 2002 to February of 2003. "Physicians nee...UCSF study: Pediatrician's judgment often better than clinical guidelines for treating infant fever
...rchers point out that infants who are running high fever often lack overt symptoms, thus making it difficul...tell continued, "but following them in the case of fever is very expensive as well as having other effects. It can be very upsetting for a family to have an ...Food-borne pathogen traced to lettuce
...tified in 1883, causes infections characterized by fever and abdominal pain that are often confused with acute appendicitis. The microbe is well known in veterinary medicine as the cause of illnesses in hares, deer, and sheep, among other animals. Y. pseudotuberculosis infections in humans are relatively r...Study findings offer new hope for the estimated 300,000 Americans infected with HIV and Hepatitis C
... most commonly reported side effects were fatigue, fever and headache....Early fevers associated with lower allergy risk later in childhood
...und that, of the children who did not experience a fever during their first year, 50.0 percent showed aller... that did not result in fevers. "We didn't expect fever to relate with such a consistent effect," says Christine C. Johnson, Ph.D, M.P.H., senior research e...Severe acute respiratory syndrome? Sometimes it's not severe
...ness, which emerged in 2003 as a syndrome in which fever and mylagia progressed rapidly to pneumonia and respiratory distress, prompting its initial designation of SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome. One implication of the current study is that early detection of future SARS-associated coronavirus ...Ebola virus a threat to great ape populations
...nzees and duikers (Bovidae), provokes haemorrhagic fever which is usually fatal. IRD researchers and co-workers from partner organizations (1) have just shown that these animals can also be victims of Ebola epidemics. Such outbreaks appear to result from multiple simultaneous transmission events starting f...Preliminary report suggests combination therapy may help treat SARS
...ears. The researchers found that the resolution of fever was similar between the two treatment groups. Of the 13 patients treated with corticosteroids alone, 5 (38.5 percent) were transferred to the intensive care unit, 3 (23.1 percent) required intubation and mechanical ventilation, and 1 (7.7 percent) d...SARS outbreak in Beijing spread rapidly, was controlled fairly quickly
...management of patients with SARS and establishing fever clinics and designated SARS wards in hospitals pre...years. Among almost 14 million people screened for fever at the airport, train stations, and roadside checkpoints, only 12 were found to have probable SARS. ...Use of rubella vaccine is growing worldwide, but more work remains
...lla is generally a mild illness, causing low-grade fever and generalized rash. CRS reporting has increased gradually, with 51 of 214 countries/territories providing reports on cases in 1999 (24%), 80 (37%) in 2000, and 89 (42%) in 2001. However, the total number of cases reported--39 in 1999, 181 in 2000,...Mouth sores: Common complaints of students
... more serious outbreaks. Cold sores, also known as fever blisters, are most often found around the mouth but sometimes occur on the gums or roof of the mouth, are caused by the herpes simplex virus (HSV-1) and are highly contagious. "A cold sore progresses through different stages and the infected individ...Major advance in chemotherapy in breast cancer
... with a higher incidence of febrile neutropenia (a fever that occurs at the time when white blood cells are decreased) compared with patients receiving FAC, but this did not result in significantly different or elevated rates of moderate to severe infections in patients who received TAC compared with FAC. ...Echinacea not effective in treating colds in children
... and 1.64 in the placebo group), number of days of fever (0.81 in the echinacea group vs. 0.64 in the placebo group), or parental global assessment of severity of the upper respiratory tract infection." The authors note there was no difference in the rate of adverse events (unwanted side effects) reporte...Long-term follow-up of mortality in patients with community-acquired pneumonia
...ortality. In fact, patients with a lower grade of fever on presentation had a higher long-term mortality than those with a higher grade of fever. Overall, in this multicenter study, about one-third of patients who survived for 90 days died over the next 6 years. Previous studies have examined this issu...SLU professor wins CDC grant to combat emerging infections, including West Nile
...ambers' research will study exactly how the yellow fever and Japanese encephalitis viruses cause disease in humans, information that is critical for vaccine development. "Vaccines have been the most effective way to prevent disease caused by these viruses," Chambers said. "We want to be able to ensure th...Study to examine if new eczema drug may prevent future development of asthma
... such as asthma, begin in early childhood, and hay fever begins even later," she says. "We know that 50 to...er later allergic responses, including asthma, hay fever and other conditions. To be considered for the study, babies must have been diagnosed with eczema...NIAID Ebola vaccine enters human trial
...rganization reported 11 cases of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in the Republic of the Congo. Dr. Nabel notes, "The current Ebola outbreak in the Congo provides a stark reminder of the need to rapidly develop vaccines against such perilous infections. A few years ago, we did not imagine that our vaccine would ent...Vaccines against fatal African cattle fever
...our. This leads, for example, to weight loss, high fever and respiratory distress. If treatment does not follow, the infected animal dies within three weeks. The reduced productivity of the cattle as a result of this disease leads to a lot of poverty in the area affected....First reported cases of North Asian tick typhus among North Americans
...n tick typhus is similar to Rocky Mountain spotted fever (endemic to the US) caused by Rickettsia rickettsia. In a prospective study, Matthew R. Lewin from the University of California San Francisco, USA, and colleagues analysed the health diaries and blood samples of 13 paleontologists from the American M...Hormones and drugs that control blood pressure also control malaria infection
... symptoms of malaria occur. These symptoms include fever and flu-like symptoms such as chills, headache, muscle aches and fatigue. Immunity is slow to develop, and left untreated, malaria may be fatal, taking its greatest toll in children. Blocking blood-stage infection by preventing the entry of the P. fa...