02/07/13 State health officials announced this week a positive case of typhoid fever in a food handler at Purdue University. Local health officials and Purdue University are working with the Indiana State Department of Health to investigate the case and assess the risk to the public. Anyone who ate at the Boiler Bistro,...
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06/08/12 State health officials have confirmed the first signs of the West Nile virus activity in Indiana. Mosquitoes in Orange County have tested positive for West Nile virus. This is considerably earlier than the first positive mosquitoes found in the state last year, in mid-July. It is impossible to predict the severity of this...
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02/23/12 Indiana now has a total of 15 confirmed cases of measles, state health officials announced today. The most recently confirmed case does not pose an increased risk of spreading the disease to others, however, because the individual has been in self-isolation since they themselves were exposed. “Through our investigation, we were made...
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11/17/10 State and local health officials have news for parents this cold and flu season: antibiotics don’t work for a cold or the flu. “Antibiotics kill bacteria, not viruses,” said State Health Commissioner Gregory N. Larkin, M.D. “And colds, flu, and most sore throats are caused by viruses. Antibiotics don’t touch viruses – never...
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