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• Nearly Half of Men Have Genital HPV Infection

  A new research confirms how prevalent human papilloma virus (HPV) is among men, highlighting the importance of vaccination and safe-sex practice.

• Woman Loses Life Due To Infection Resistant To All Antibiotics

  A woman lost her life in Washington State after contracting an infection that was resistant to just about every antibiotic available. It is said that the woman acquired the bacteria while being treated in India for a broken leg.

• Wonderful Pistachios recalled after Salmonella infects 11 people

  The Center for Disease Control and Prevention in the US have discovered salmonella strains in Pistachios under the Wonderful brand. The company immediately called for a recall in all products that were affected.

• U.S. military orders review as anthrax mishap widens

  The U.S. military said on Friday it discovered even more suspected shipments of live anthrax than previously thought, both in the United States and abroad, and ordered a sweeping review of practices meant to inactivate the bacteria.

• Youth e-cigarette data prompts new calls to speed regulation

  Public health advocates are stepping up pressure on the U.S. government to quickly regulate and restrict access to e-cigarettes after new data showed use of the products tripled among high school and middle school children last year.

• Australia bans travel from Ebola-hit countries; U.S. isolates troops

  Australia became the first developed country on Tuesday to shut its borders to citizens of the countries worst-hit by the West African Ebola outbreak, a move those states said stigmatized healthy people and would make it harder to fight the disease.

• Two U.S. states to quarantine health workers returning from Ebola zones

  New York and New Jersey will automatically quarantine medical workers returning from Ebola-hit West African countries and the U.S. government is considering the same step after a doctor who treated patients in Guinea came back infected, officials said on Friday.

• Ebola galvanizes workers battling to join unions, improve safety

  Anthony Reynolds works on what he calls "the SWAT team of airplane cleaners," scrubbing the seats, carpets and toilets of planes parked overnight at the Philadelphia airport. About a year ago, he joined a drive to organize a union, and Ebola, he says, may help his cause.

• U.S. lawmakers blast government's Ebola response, urge travel ban

  Congressional lawmakers criticized the government's response to Ebola in the United States on Thursday as some called, at a congressional hearing probing efforts to contain the virus, for a ban on travel from epidemic-stricken West Africa.

• Ebola patient dies in Texas; five U.S. airports to screen for fever

  The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States died on Wednesday, underscoring questions about the quality of care he received, and the government ordered five airports to start screening passengers from West Africa for fever.