If this is your first time visiting Bible Prophecy In The News, I’d like to invite you to subscribe to our RSS feed. Never miss an update.. Thanks for visiting!An outbreak of a mystery strain of encephalitis has killed nearly 500 children in northern India this year and seems to be getting worse, doctors said Thursday.
Doctors in Uttar Pradesh state, the center of the outbreak, have been unable to identify the strain of the disease, which has affected only children, killing 484 of them since the beginning of the …

The Ebola outbreak that has killed 18 people in western Uganda appears to be spreading, officials said Sunday, as authorities examined a sample taken from a patient who died in the south of the country.Government officials told AFP that the disease, which flared in September, had spread to three new zones in the poor Bundibugyo district near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where it killed 26 recently.
Virologists were meanwhile examining a sample taken from a suspected victim who died overnight in Mbarara region, 160 kilometres (100 …

The first statistics ever amassed on HIV in the District, released today in a sweeping report, reveal “a modern epidemic” remarkable for its size, complexity and reach into all parts of the city.
The numbers most starkly illustrate HIV’s impact on the African American community. More than 80 percent of the 3,269 HIV cases identified between 2001 and 2006 were among black men, women and adolescents. Among women who tested positive, a rising percentage of local cases, nine of 10 were African American.
The 120-page report, which includes the city’s first AIDS …

A mutated version of a common cold virus has caused 10 deaths in the last 18 months, U.S. health officials said Thursday. Adenoviruses usually cause respiratory infections that aren’t considered lethal. But a new variant has caused at least 140 illnesses in New York, Oregon, Washington and Texas, according to a report issued Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
CDC officials don’t consider the mutation to be a cause for alarm for most people, and they’re not recommending any new precautions for the general public.
“It’s an uncommon …

It wasnt that long ago that if your child got a staph infection, it was knocked out with a couple of doses of penicillin. Now, penicillin may not work because there’s a form of staph called “MRSA” that has mutated and become resistant to most antibiotics.
As correspondent Lesley Stahl reports, its a superbug that used to strike exclusively hospital and nursing home patients. Three years ago, 60 Minutes reported on a then-relatively new community-based MRSA that attacks perfectly healthy people who had not set foot in a hospital.
Thats what were …

A rising number of dual infections with HIV and tuberculosis has created a co-epidemic spreading throughout sub-Saharan Africa, researchers say.Local health systems are unable to contain the co-epidemic, the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research says.
The situation is made more urgent by increasing rates of drug-resistant TB in areas with a high prevalence of HIV.
Half of all new TB cases in sub-Saharan Africa are now HIV co-infected, forum director Veronica Miller said.
Contagious
TB, which is a disease of the respiratory system, is not uncommon - about 20% of …

A county in Kentucky will close all of its 23 schools Monday after one student was diagnosed with the drug-resistant MRSA “superbug” bacteria, CNN reported Saturday.
Pike County superintendent of schools Roger Wagner said he made the decision to wage war on the bacteria by disinfecting virtually everything, according to the report.
About 10,300 students will be affected by the shutdown, Wagner said.
He named classrooms, restrooms, cafeterias, hallways, locker rooms, buses, and even outdoor areas such as playgrounds and sports fields as areas that would be swabbed down.
“We’re not closing schools because …

The h5n1 strain of bird flu has finally managed to spread from person to person, according to officials of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Until now, it was spread from birds to humans. They warned that if the bird flu virus mutated to easily spread between humans, it could spark a global pandemic, killing millions.
In Thailand, when a mother was hospitalised with avian influenza, her daughter, who lived away from bird-rearing contracted the virus when she came to visit her in hospital.
The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle, US also …

Westchester County is asking hospitals, doctors and colleges to report any cases of an antibiotic-resistant staph infection after 10 members of an Iona College athletic team were infected, a health official said.
The county Health Commissioner, Dr. Joshua Lipsman, said he hoped to “see if there’s any kind of a pattern.” The reporting isn’t required by law.
Lipsman said Friday that the Iona outbreak was “under control.” One student athlete had been hospitalized but has been released, he said. Iona spokeswoman Cecelia Donohoe said all the cases had been caught early and …

More than 90,000 Americans get potentially deadly infections each year from a drug-resistant staph “superbug,” the government reported Tuesday in its first overall estimate of invasive disease caused by the germ.
Deaths tied to these infections may exceed those caused by AIDS, said one public health expert commenting on the new study. The report shows just how far one form of the staph germ has spread beyond its traditional hospital setting.
The overall incidence rate was about 32 invasive infections per 100,000 people. That’s an “astounding” figure, said an editorial in Wednesday’s …