Health News: Page 25

Maggots and Leeches Welcomed Back Into Health Care (April 20, 2005): The use of maggots and leeches to heal wounds and infections is slowly starting to play a bigger role into modern medicine.

Human Intestines Home to Trillions of Bacteria (April 15, 2005): New scientific research by scientists in Palo Alto, California, has found that the human intestines contain 395 bacteria strains that had never been discovered before.

Marburg Outbreak in Angola Worsens (April 8, 2005): The BBC reports that 174 people have now been killed by the Marburg outbreak in Angola.

Bird Flu Claims 50th Life (April 6, 2005): The BBC reports that fifty people are now dead from the bird flu outbreak that has plagued Southeast Asia since January, 2004.

Marburg Outbreak Now Worst Ever (April 1, 2005): The Marburg outbreak, which recently spread into Luanda, Angola's capital city, has now killed 126 people.

Africa Faces Ebola and Marburg Threats (March 24, 2005): A new Ebola outbreak has emerged in the Sudan.

Angola Outbreak Confirmed as Marburg (March 23, 2005): The mysterious illness that has now killed 96 people, including many children, in northern Angola has been identified as Marburg, a rare hemorrhagic fever for which there is no cure.

Airport National Security is Unhygienic (March 22, 2005): While we all think of the inconvenience of removing our shoes these days before boarding planes how many have considered the health implications of this mass shoe removal? Dr.

77 Killed from Angola Disease Outbreak (March 18, 2005): Reuters reports that a disease has killed 77 of the 83 people suspected of being infected in Angola.

Mystery Disease Kills 56 in Angola in Two Weeks (March 16, 2005): The ProMed email service, a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, had an email post that 56 people have died in Angola in the last two weeks from an unknown illness.

CDC: Bird Flu World's Top Threat (February 22, 2005): Dr.