Medical teams search for epidemics after Katrina - Yahoo! News
Medical teams search for epidemics after Katrina - Yahoo! News: "NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Investigators searching for evidence of epidemics following Hurricane Katrina found plenty of stomach upset but no serious outbreaks -- yet.
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'We haven't seen anything that jumps off the page,' said Dr. Carolyn Tabak. 'But there are illnesses that seem to be occurring in greater numbers.'
Tabak, a pediatrician at the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, is helping lead a team of researchers who will decide if any epidemics have followed the flood and damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
In addition to the widely expected stomach upset caused by dirty water, skin infections appeared frequently, she said..
'Rashes are not uncommon here, anyway,' added Edward Weiss, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention epidemiologist from Atlanta. 'I think the main illness we are seeing here is the dysentery, the diarrhea.'
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CDC says 19 people have become ill from Vibrio bacterial infections and five have died in the region after Katrina. Three have died from Vibrio vulnificus and two from V. parahaemolyticus, the CDC said."
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'We haven't seen anything that jumps off the page,' said Dr. Carolyn Tabak. 'But there are illnesses that seem to be occurring in greater numbers.'
Tabak, a pediatrician at the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, is helping lead a team of researchers who will decide if any epidemics have followed the flood and damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
In addition to the widely expected stomach upset caused by dirty water, skin infections appeared frequently, she said..
'Rashes are not uncommon here, anyway,' added Edward Weiss, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention epidemiologist from Atlanta. 'I think the main illness we are seeing here is the dysentery, the diarrhea.'
The
CDC says 19 people have become ill from Vibrio bacterial infections and five have died in the region after Katrina. Three have died from Vibrio vulnificus and two from V. parahaemolyticus, the CDC said."
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