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In this MyMCMedia Extra video, Zalgen Labs’ co-founder Dr. Luis Branco talks about his work on the rapid diagnostic test for Ebola late last year in Africa and what happened when he returned to the United States. The World Health Organization approved a rapid diagnostic test for Ebola last week. Related:

An employee at John T. Baker Middle School in Damascus was exposed to a relative who had tuberculosis over the weekend and worked in the school Monday, prompting school officials to send a letter home to parents Wednesday. Principal Louise Worthington, in a letter to parents, said the employee is not exhibiting any symptoms of the illness but […]

Passengers on two Frontier Airlines flights between Cleveland and Dallas Fort Worth on Oct. 10 and Oct. 13 are being asking to contact the Centers for Disease Control due to a possible exposure to the Ebola virus. The CDC is now asking those passengers on Frontier Airlines flight 1142 Dallas/Fort Worth to Cleveland on Oct. […]

President Obama met with Cabinet officials and CDC Director Tom Frieden to discuss the government’s response to Ebola on Oct. 15. Here’s an excerpt from that meeting and posted on the White House’s YouTube page:   Related:

The number of whooping cough cases in Montgomery County has reached 41 as of Oct. 2, according to the Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services. According to Mary Anderson, public information officer for the health department, 32 children and nine adults have been reported to the health department as having pertussis or whooping […]

UPDATED, Sept. 2, 11 a.m.- Parents at four schools in Montgomery County have been notified that their children may have been exposed to a contagious respiratory illness known as Whooping Cough. According to Montgomery County Public Schools spokesman Dana Tofig, those schools include: Julius West Middle School in Rockville, Cabin John Middle School in Potomac, […]

Excessive alcohol use accounts for one in 10 deaths among working-age adults ages 20-64 years in the United States, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published today in Preventing Chronic Disease. Excessive alcohol use led to approximately 88,000 deaths per year from 2006 to 2010, and shortened the lives […]

Rates of five major diabetes-related complications have declined substantially in the last 20 years among U.S. adults with diabetes, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), published in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Rates of lower-limb amputation, end-stage kidney failure, heart attack, stroke, and […]

This influenza season was particularly hard on younger- and middle-age adults, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). People age 18-64 represented 61 percent of all hospitalizations from influenza—up from the previous three seasons when this age group represented only about 35 percent of all […]

Rockville has cancelled Doggie Dip Day scheduled for September 14 as a precautionary measure in response to the recent spread of canine influenza (dog flu) in Montgomery County. Doggie Dip Day is an annual event that takes place after the close of the outdoor swim season when residents can treat their dogs to an afternoon […]