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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/"><channel><title>MSNBC.com: Infectious Diseases</title><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3034551/</link><description>MSNBC.com is a leader in breaking news and original journalism.</description><copyright>Copyright 2006 MSNBC.com</copyright><language>en-us</language><image><url>http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/SiteManagement/SiteWide/Images/msnbc_logo.gif</url><title>MSNBC.com</title><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/</link></image><lastBuildDate>Sat, 03 Jun 2006 01:17:34 GMT</lastBuildDate><category>News</category><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>Veterans warned of possible virus exposure</title><description>More than 2,000 veterans were advised they might have been exposed to deadly viruses such as HIV when they underwent prostate biopsies at a medical center for veterans, a newspaper reported.</description><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13098645/</link><pubDate>Fri, 2 Jun 2006 13:20:49 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13098645/</guid></item><item><title>Boston reports measles outbreak</title><description>Boston health officials worked to contain the city’s first outbreak of measles in seven years after four people in a downtown office tower were diagnosed with the highly infectious disease.</description><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12991940/</link><pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2006 19:01:42 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12991940/</guid></item><item><title>Brain surgery patient dies; others alerted</title><description>Officials at a suburban Denver hospital alerted six brain surgery patients after another patient died of classic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a rare degenerative brain ailment, the hospital said.</description><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12856496/</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2006 18:20:09 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12856496/</guid></item><item><title>New antibiotic may fight resistant germs</title><description>Researchers have found a potentially valuable new antibiotic in a scoop of soil from South Africa.</description><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12832945/</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2006 17:42:31 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12832945/</guid></item><item><title>Rising deadly infections puzzle experts</title><description>The cause of increasing rare but deadly bacterial infections, including a handful of cases in women who have taken the controversial RU-486 abortion pill, is still unclear and needs further study, experts said..</description><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12755077/</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 19:26:52 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12755077/</guid></item><item><title>Hospital may have exposed some to HIV</title><description>A California hospital was contacting some 300 morbidly obese patients after learning they may have been exposed to hepatitis or HIV by poorly cleaned instruments used in stomach-reduction operations.</description><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12628415/</link><pubDate>Thu, 4 May 2006 14:07:42 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12628415/</guid></item><item><title>Worried about germs? Beware the phone!</title><description>Worried about colds, flu and other germs? Go ahead and touch those doorknobs and elevator buttons, but watch out for the telephone, fresh laundry and sinks, a top expert advises.</description><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12594731/</link><pubDate>Tue, 2 May 2006 15:34:24 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12594731/</guid></item><item><title>Only 4 to 7 cases of mad cow in U.S.</title><description>There are probably a few undetected cases of mad cow disease in the United States, but the total — estimated at four to seven — is “extraordinarily low,” Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns says.</description><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12531915/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:15:40 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12531915/</guid></item><item><title>Vaccine may prevent Ebola-like virus</title><description>A vaccine that protects monkeys against the highly deadly Marburg virus, a relative of Ebola, may also provide the first known treatment for the infection, researchers reported.</description><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12513130/</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:53:46 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12513130/</guid></item><item><title>Iowa opens mass clinics for mumps shots</title><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12409082/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060420/060420_mumps_hmed_12p.thumb.jpg" alt="**FILE** A Jan. 16, 1957 file photo shows Greg Cox, left, 7, in Altamont, Ill., as he looks at his friend Jon Douglas, 6, through the doorway while he recovers from mumps. In the worst outbreak in more than 20 years, mumps cases are spilling out of Iowa, popping up in at least nine other Midwestern states. Cases have also turned up in Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. Greg's parents posted the sign but it didn't working out too well because most of Greg's playmates were too young to read. (AP Photo, File)" style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a>Mass clinics for mumps immunization will open for young adults next week in Iowa, the state at the center of a regional epidemic, health officials said. ]]></description><link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12409082/</link><media:content medium="image" url="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060420/060420_mumps_hmed_12p.thumb.jpg"><media:credit role="provider">AP file</media:credit><media:text><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12409082/"><img align="left" border="0" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060420/060420_mumps_hmed_12p.thumb.jpg" alt="**FILE** A Jan. 16, 1957 file photo shows Greg Cox, left, 7, in Altamont, Ill., as he looks at his friend Jon Douglas, 6, through the doorway while he recovers from mumps. In the worst outbreak in more than 20 years, mumps cases are spilling out of Iowa, popping up in at least nine other Midwestern states. Cases have also turned up in Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. Greg's parents posted the sign but it didn't working out too well because most of Greg's playmates were too young to read. (AP Photo, File)" style="margin:0 5px 5px 0" /></a> ]]></media:text></media:content><pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:45:24 GMT</pubDate><category>News</category><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12409082/</guid></item></channel></rss>