Diana Gonzalez Breaks Down the Health Headlines: Bed Bugs and Vaccines
Diana Gonzalez Breaks Down the Health Headlines: Bed Bugs and Vaccines
Do bed bugs carry disease? And how important are childhood vaccines?
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" Creepy -- blood sucking bed bugs have not been found to actually make people sick. But the insecticide used to kill them is a different story. According to the Centers for Disease Control from 2003 to 2010111. People became ill. Three of those cases were in Florida 54 in New York City symptoms include headache dizziness nausea and vomiting. Last year one woman in North Carolina died after applying pesticides to her skin and hair. Getting rid of bed bugs can be difficult and in most cases the pesticides were misused. And people failed to wash treated -- Outbreaks of illness from recreational swimming. The subject of another new report from the CDC. From January 2007 to December 2008 there were 134. Outbreaks associated with recreational water. With nearly 141000. Cases of illness in 38 states that to 72%. Increase in the previous two year period. A chlorine tolerant parasite. Caused 45% of the outbreaks. To prevent these illness the CDC says don't swim when you have diarrhea avoid swallowing or getting -- water in your -- Giving infants the rotavirus vaccine has prevented thousands of hospitalizations and saved millions of dollars in health care costs. Rotavirus is a leading cause of severe diarrhea in infants and young children under age five before the vaccines were introduced in 2006. Rotavirus was responsible for 200000. Emergency room visits a year. CDC researchers found hospitalizations went down 75%. Because of vaccines."
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