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Saudi review finds over 100 more MERS infections 06/05/2014 03:28am • ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Saudi Arabia, which is grappling to contain the spread of a frequently deadly respiratory virus, announced Tuesday that a review of the illness led authorities to sharply revise upward the number of confirmed infections and deaths fro Trial results promising for curing puppies' parvo 06/04/2014 08:54pm • DAVE KOLPACK Associated Press GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) -- A North Dakota company that discovered an antibody technology while trying to cure flocks of dying geese is using its research for a more warm and fuzzy purpose: saving puppies.Early tests performed on about 50 puppies in seven states for Grand Doctors use immune therapy against cervical cancer 06/04/2014 07:36pm • MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) -- Two years ago, Arrica Wallace was riddled with tumors from widely spread cervical cancer that the strongest chemotherapy and radiation could not beat back. Today, the Kansas mother shows no signs of the disease, and it was her own immune sys Judge lets US intercept info from hacked computers 06/03/2014 07:00pm • JOE MANDAK Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) -- The Justice Department can continue to intercept information from 350,000 computers worldwide that are known to be infected with a data-stealing virus being spread by an alleged Russian computer hacker and his conspirators, a federal judge said.Justice Hepatitis C: A killer few know much about 06/03/2014 03:22pm • WASHINGTON -- It is a virus that kills more people each year than AIDS, and yet most know little about it: Hepatitis C. The virus can lie undetected in the body for decades. If it turns chronic, the results can be deadly. "Chronic Hepatitis C leads to cirrhosis of the liver," says Niel Constan Sierra Leone Ebola outbreak death toll now 5 06/03/2014 10:30am • CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Foreign mining company personnel have left the country while others are undergoing body temperature screening at work sites, company officials said Tuesday as the death toll from an Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone rose to at least Officials: Measles tally doubled in the past month 05/30/2014 07:54pm • MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Measles cases are accelerating, and in the last five months have caused more U.S. illnesses than in any entire year since 1996.Health officials say 307 cases have been reported since New Year's Day. About half have been in the past month -- most from a Iran reports its first death from MERS virus 05/29/2014 07:00pm • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran has suffered its first fatality from the Middle Eastern respiratory virus, its official news agency reported Thursday, a day after the first cases in Islamic Republic were publicized.The IRNA news agency quoted Health Ministry official Mohammad Mahdi Gouya as saying the vir Saudi death toll from MERS virus rises to 186 05/29/2014 02:30pm • RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia's Health Ministry says 13 people have died over the last two weeks from the Middle Eastern respiratory virus.The ministry says 186 people in total have died from the virus since it was discovered in 2012. The ministry said late Wednesday another 565 people h Officials take back report of MERS spread in US 05/29/2014 01:20pm • MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Health officials on Wednesday backtracked on an earlier report that a mysterious Middle East virus had apparently spread from one person to another in the United States.Additional testing has shown the virus did not, in fact, spread to an Illinois man f Iran reports its first 2 cases of MERS virus 05/29/2014 03:08am • TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran has recorded its first two cases of the potentially fatal Middle East respiratory virus, first reported in Saudi Arabia two years ago, media reported Wednesday.The kingdom has been the focal point of the outbreak of the virus, known as the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.I Guyana has first cases of virus new to region 05/28/2014 08:30pm • GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) -- At least two people have been sickened by the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus in Guyana in the first locally transmitted cases in the South American country, the health minister said Wednesday.A regional lab confirmed the virus in a 4-year-old child and a 40-year-old man Officials urge caution as tick season begins 05/28/2014 06:30pm • BAILEY ELISE McBRIDE Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- State health officials and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday urged Oklahoma residents to be vigilant about checking for ticks after the death of a man who acquired the Heartland virus.Oklahoma's health department h Q & A: The right choice for backing up your data 05/28/2014 02:48pm • PHOENIX, Ariz. -- We store everything on our computers and devices these days, but backing up that information is important. Otherwise, if something goes wrong, it's lost. Q: We've got a new college graduate with lots of stuff to be backed up off her computer. Should we use cloud or an externa D.C. among cities where you're more likely to get bitten by mosquitoes 05/27/2014 11:39am • WASHINGTON -- Residents of the D.C. metro area may want to wear some extra bug repellent after ranking near the top of a list of cities with the most mosquitoes in 2013. Pest-control company, Orkin released its list of the top 20 mosquito cities, based on the number of mosquito treatments the co