Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Steak 'n Shake Offers Seven Patty Burger as Part of Their Late-Night Menu

If you've ever driven around in your car at two in the morning wondering where you could find a mega gut-bomb, then read on because we've found a doozie of a burger. Steak 'n Shake has introduced the 7 x 7 Steakburger, and it's exactly what you think it is -- seven meat patties (and seven slices of ... More >>

Grow Your Own Sprouts: Hippocrates Greenhouse Manager Brian Hetrich Shows Us How

Want to incorporate healthier foods into your diet but don't have the budget to be splurging on expensive organic eats? That's OK. We feel you. Instead of buying expensive food, we suggest growing your own. Even if you weren't blessed with a green thumb and don't have an inch of outdoor space to spa ... More >>

Whooping Cough Cases Continue to Climb in Broward and Across Florida

Broward health officials have now recorded 34 cases of whooping cough this year, according to the latest data. For the whole of last year, there was only one case documented in the county. See also-Broward Whooping Cough Cases Shouldn't Surprise Anyone-Whooping Cough Cases Surge in Broward, Flo ... More >>

Did You Know MIA Has a Quarantine Station?

Florida CDC Quarantine Station Doesn't Get Much Play, so Long as Ebola Stays Away

Picture this: A flight with passengers from Uganda just touched down at Miami International Airport. As the visitors inch toward the terminal, one pauses in the aisle and wipes a speck of blood from his earlobe. Suddenly sweat runs down his cheeks; his eyes are inky red. He lets out a guttural moan ... More >>

Will Your BBQ Make You Sick? Here's A Helpful Infographic To Save The Day

Though technically we're one of the few places in the country where we can barbeque year round, tradition dictates that summer is prime grilling season.There's something about a barbeque....The smell of meat smoking, the clink of a cold beer bottle being opened, the laughter of family and friends ge ... More >>

Zeds Dead With Juan Basshead on July 20 at Revolution Live

Tuberculosis Can Spread Through Bong Tokes and Other Weird Facts About "White Plague"

See also "Florida Government Keeps Tuberculosis Deaths of 'Poor Black Men' Secet as Disease Spreads" and "Are Medical Marijuana Claims Made in Reggae Songs True?"The Palm Beach Post's Stacey Singer on Sunday delivered a stellar investigation into the state's worst tuberculous outbreak in two decades ... More >>

Florida Government Keeps Tuberculosis Deaths of "Poor Black Men" Secret as Disease Spreads

An outbreak of tuberculosis has spread from Jacksonville to as far south as Miami and was kept secret from the public, according to an expose by the Palm Beach Post. The CDC team investigating the spread said it is the worst it's investigated in 20 years. At the time of their report in April, 13 de ... More >>

Genetically Modified Bugs Glow Red and Self-Destruct, but Can They Keep Away Disease?

It's A Good Week To Skip the Spicy Tuna Roll

Over 140 people in 20 states have been stricken with salmonella traced to yellowfin tuna meat scraped from bones and organs. One person in Florida has been sick, with the bulk of illnesses clustered in New York (28), Maryland (14), Wisconsin (14), and Illinois (13). The Centers for Disease Control p ... More >>

Forbes' Gardasil Story Sheds Light on Why Florida's Well-Meaning HPV Legislation Failed

Florida lawmakers tackled lots of pressing issues this past legislative sessions. They debated whether the barking tree frog should be the Sunshine State's official amphibian. They clashed over making it a crime to pick up pecans that have fallen from privately owned trees. The e ... More >>

Ink Wars: A New Law Pits Florida Tattoo Artists Against One Another

How to Increase Your Chances of Eating Locally Caught Seafood

​National Public Radio reported today that fish and spices are most often the culprits that make people sick. "It's not that imported foods are any nastier than homegrown, according to a presentation today from researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It's that we're ea ... More >>

Florida Anti-Vaccine Group Ignores Facts, Says It's Not Anti-Vaccine

​The Health Regulation Committee on Wednesday voted seven to zip in favor of SB 1116, a proposal to give parents of sixth-graders information on the human papillomavirus vaccine, which helps protect females from cervical cancer. As discussed yesterday, the original version of the bi ... More >>

Florida HPV Vaccine Bill Gets Watered Down Before Going to Committee; Anti-Vaccine Group Still Not Pleased

​Rick Perry tried making it mandatory. Michele Bachmann insinuated that it causes mental retardation. One of the world's top bioethicists bet Bachmann $10,000 to prove this claim. The human papillomavirus vaccine -- which helps protect women from certain strains of HPV that cause cervical cancer - ... More >>

Binge Drinking in Florida? Feds Say Not Here

​The Onion has penned many parodies of this state, including Florida Legalizes Taking Guns to Work; Florida State University to Phase Out Academic Operations by 2010; and 'Ravaged' Named Florida's Official State Adjective. Though it reads like it, this stat is no parody. According to the Centers f ... More >>

A Drug That Sort of Prevents HIV Transmission: What Could Go Wrong?

​Imagine a drug that could stop the spread of HIV. People could screw whomever they wanted however they wanted and sleep peacefully knowing that the virus wouldn't soon be waging an all-out assault on their immune systems. It sounds like a quick fix to one of history's most pressing public he ... More >>

Cruise Ship Catastrophes: From Viruses to Pirates to Flying Furniture

blmiers2​The Italian Coast Guard on Wednesday halted efforts to recover bodies from the wreckage of the Costa Concordia, a massive cruise ship that capsized last week off the coast of Italy. With at least 11 people dead and more than still 20 missing, the accident has already dealt a financial blo ... More >>

Cruise Ships to Accommodate Fatter Passengers

​The U.S. Coast Guard is the last to acknowledge that people on boats are fatter than they were in 1960. So while cruise ships nixed armrests and installed wider seats years ago, the U.S. Coast Guard has just gotten around to raising the Assumed Average Weight Per Person from 160 to 180 pounds las ... More >>

West Nile Virus Apparently Still a Thing -- Case Confirmed in Palm Beach County

kintera.com​Palm Beach County's health department is reporting that a woman has acquired the West Nile virus -- the first case in the county in five years.The county issued a "mosquito borne disease advisory" yesterday when the case was confirmed, after the woman was diagnosed with the disease by ... More >>

Fat, Sodium, Calories: Ten Dense Dishes

weheartit.comDoes your food want you to die?​You see them on TV, you drive past them on the way home - chain restaurants that offer food, fun and convenience. We know its difficult to ignore their siren songs of cheap food and menus that weight more than a toddler.  In order to make your food ... More >>

With "Contagion," Steven Soderbergh Turns the Star-Studded Hollywood Disaster Flick on Its Head

Florida AIDS Medicine Waiting List Longest in America

Flickr user: Sully Pixel​More than 3,600 Floridians are on a government waiting list for AIDS medicine -- the longest list in the country, according to the national nonprofit the AIDS Institute. Of the needy patients, 886 live in Palm Beach and Broward counties.The medicine, which keeps patients h ... More >>

Over Seven Years, Prescription Drug Overdoses Killed Nearly Five People Per Day in Florida

Wikimedia CommonsStructure of oxycodone.​We all know that many Floridians have been getting high over the past few years, but a new report says they've been getting way, way too high -- to the point of death.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a "morbidity and mortality" report ... More >>

Allen West "Offended" by Planned Parenthood in Black Neighborhoods

Allen West doesn't want women to get prenatal vitamins, either.​U.S. Rep. Allen West managed to sound relatively sane for the first hour of his town hall meeting in Palm Beach last night. He used lots of pie charts and graphs to outline bedrock GOP talking points about slashing spending and cuttin ... More >>

State Probe Into Acreage Cancer Cluster Is Over, but Lawyers Keep On Digging

​For more than a year, concerned families have been looking for answers about a disturbing trend of pediatric tumors and cancers around the Acreage, an unincorporated area between West Palm and Lake Okeechobee.Early this year, the Palm Beach County Health Department confirmed that a "cancer cluste ... More >>

The Killing of Calvin Williams: If You're Black and Gay in South Florida, Down-Low Sex Is a Deadly Gamble

Lauderdale Dr. Gary Snyder Argues Against Flu Vaccine

Snyder's home flu repellent: Vitamin D​Historians will look back some day on the autumn of 2009 as a period of mass hysteria over a relatively innocuous strain of flu called H1N1, which so far has killed 1,000 Americans (normal seasonal flu averages 36,000 U.S. deaths per year, according to the CD ... More >>

Pit Bulls Banned in Miami Find Refuge in Broward and Palm Beach Counties

No Worries: That lead-filled tap water is perfectly safe

He's lucky he doesn't live in D.C.Just catching up on my reading here, and boy is it depressing. An April 10 expose in Salon has embroiled the CDC in a cover-up scandal about lead-tainted water in Washington D.C. Our august Center for Disease Control published studies in 2004 that reassured worried ... More >>

South Florida's underground vampires lust for more than your heart

Florida Most Dangerous State For Eating Out

Simmer Down, Kids!

Sex-ed teachers want to know: How do you get hormones to listen to reason?

Are Hospitals Helping the Homeless?

Not enough, say some who are learning to fend for themselves

Food Critic Poisoned!

The ABC's of Restaurant Cleanliness

Blubber for Cash

Bucking the health food tide: This middle school says, "Let 'em eat dougnuts."

Cool & Cocky

Detroit's Electric Six toe the line between rock and mock.

The Protection Racket

And the band plays on

Letters for November 3-9, 2005

Letters July 29 - August 4, 2004

Unsafe Sex

Our intrepid reporter probes the gay orgies that have helped to spark a runaway syphilis outbreak

Look Back in Anthrax

Magazine mogul David Pecker rates public agencies' response to the Boca debacle

Anthrax Side Show

Media madness at disease central is no joke

Old Ghosts

Ivan Reitman's Evolution is so evolved it's backward -- a greatest-hits comprised entirely of misses

Color Blinded

A federal grant earmarked for "African-Americans" with AIDS has care providers in Broward debating linguistics rather than logistics.

Swingers Redux

Fed up with fear of infection and bored with the Internet, a new generation of swingers reinvents South Florida's sexual underworld

Enough to Make You Sick

The CDC is trying to determine what the residents of downtown Belle Glade already know -- that poverty, drugs, and prostitution are bad for your health

The Single-Minded Professor