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Rob Dunn, a biologist and writer in the Department of Biology at North Carolina State University, was the keynote speaker Thursday at the 68th annual Ogden Surgical Medical Society Conference in Ogden. The author of “The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today” discussed the various organisms that live around us — and actually on us. (Courtesy photo)

Biologist at medical conference in Ogden: Don’t be afraid of all organisms living on you

Last updated Saturday, May 18, 2013 - 11:14pm

OGDEN — How many organisms are living on your body?

Most of the genes living on you are viral, fungal and microbial — and your body has more of those on it than human genes, says an evolutionary ecologist.

Rob Dunn, a biologist and writer in the Department of Biology at North Carolina State University, was the keynote speaker Thursday during the 68th annual Ogden Surgical Medical Society Conference at the Eccles Conference Center.

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Bonneville High’s Hayden White celebrates a goal during a game in April. He has
Type 1 diabetes.

Bonneville coach, player team up to defeat diabetes

Jon Oglesby Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, May 10, 2013 - 11:52pm

The goals of a coach vary, depending on where you are coaching.

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A worker sprays disinfectant in a live poultry market in Banchiao, New Taipei City, a suburb of Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, April 29, 2013. Ahead of a sweeping ban on live poultry slaughter in markets that will take effect across Taiwan in two weeks. Taiwan has stepped up efforts to prevent a spread of a strain of deadly bird flu virus since last week when it confirmed the island’s first case of a patient sickened by the H7N9 virus. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Scientist race against spread of deadly bird flu strain

Jason Gale Bloomberg News

Last updated Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 9:21am

MELBOURNE, Australia — Deep inside a high-security laboratory an hour from Melbourne, scientists working behind air-locked doors inject six-week-old chickens with a virus that has killed one in five people it’s known to have infected.

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STDs increased in Utah in 2012

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 22, 2013 - 1:34pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Health officials say cases of sexually-transmitted diseases have increased in Utah, and they’re trying to spread the message that condoms are the best way to stop it.

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Chelsea Rushton, 24, of Syracuse, has been battling gastroparesis, a condition that reduces the ability of the stomach to digest its contents. She constantly battles nausea and dehydration. Seated with her is her husband, Jeremy. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Syracuse woman battles digestive disease, nausea, frustration

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 9:59am

SYRACUSE — Chelsea Rushton recently lost her best friend to a disease she herself has been battling for the past several years.

Haley Stonehocker, 19, of Spanish Fork, died Oct. 11 from gastroparesis, a condition in which the muscles of the wall of the stomach work poorly or not at all. It prevents the stomach from emptying food properly and interferes with digestion.

Stonehocker’s death has been difficult for Rushton. The two were extremely close and often leaned on each other for support and encouragement.

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Karson Riggs, who died in January of 2011, is pictured with his doctor, Kathryn Swoboda. Karson’s mother, Jody Riggs, now is speaking out to raise awareness of his disease.

Hooper mother speaks out to help future parents

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, September 27, 2012 - 2:47pm

HOOPER — Karson Riggs’ mother Jody didn’t need to ever hear her son speak to be totally moved by his sweet spirit and vast intelligence.

That’s why Jody Riggs is so grateful for every day he was alive, to share his influence with not just her but the entire community.

There are many stories about how the terminally ill boy, who lived just 2 1/2 years, changed the way many saw the world around them.

“He brought the whole community together,” Riggs said. “There were so many miracles that came about because of people making efforts to help him.”

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Seven-year-old Sierra Jane Downing from Pagosa Springs, Colo., smiles during a news conference about her recovery from bubonic plague at the Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children at Presbyterian/St. Luke's Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012, in Denver. It is believed Downing caught the bubonic plague from burying a dead squirrel. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)

Girl,7, survives bout of bubonic plague caught camping

Catherine Tsai The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 9:27am

DENVER — The parents of 7-year-old Sierra Jane Downing thought she had the flu when she felt sick days after camping in southwest Colorado.

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Sept. 9 is a day for FASD Awareness

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, August 24, 2012 - 12:30pm

Sept. 9 is International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Awareness Day.

Pat Smith, with Weber Human Services, is letting area churches know that because this is on a Sunday, the Utah Fetal Alcohol Coalition, would like to go with the theme “FASD — Awareness Through Faith.”

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Utah health officials confirm 2 hantavirus deaths

Michelle Rindels The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, June 5, 2012 - 2:55pm

Public health officials have linked two deaths in Utah to hantavirus in the past month, an unusually high rate for the rodent-borne disease that isn’t always fatal.

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Layton doctor says some people predisposed to meningitis

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 11:19pm

LAYTON -- A local physician says there is an immune deficiency disorder that may predispose some people to meningeal infections, especially the severe bacterial type like the one that claimed the life of a Syracuse boy in January.

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A tuberculosis patient takes medicines at Directly Observed Treatment Short-course, run by non-government organization Navirman Samaj Vikas Kendra, on the outskirts of Mumbai, India, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. Indian doctors have reported the country's first cases of "totally drug-resistant tuberculosis," a long-feared and virtually untreatable form of the killer lung disease. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

India reports new TB strain resistant to all drugs

Margie Mason The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, January 16, 2012 - 11:12am

Indian doctors have reported the country's first cases of "totally drug-resistant tuberculosis," a long-feared and virtually untreatable form of the killer lung disease.

It's not the first time highly resistant cases like this have been seen. Since 2003, patients have been documented in Italy and Iran. It has mostly been limited to impoverished areas, and has not spread widely. But experts believe there could be many undocumented cases.

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Ogden whooping cough outbreak raises issue of vaccinations

Rachel Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, October 31, 2011 - 4:26pm

OGDEN -- Some parents who choose not to vaccinate their children are feeling frustrated and angry about the way they were notified of a whooping cough outbreak in a city school last week.

Over 65 Mount Ogden Junior High students were sent home for being under-immunized or on immunization exemption for personal, religious or medical reasons Oct. 24 when one student case of whooping cough was confirmed. On Friday evening it was announced students on immunization exemption can't come back to school until Nov. 14 because two more cases have been confirmed in the school.

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Whooping cough outbreak sends kids home at Mount Ogden

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, October 28, 2011 - 9:31pm

OGDEN -- Unvaccinated Mount Ogden Junior High students will have a longer-than-expected break from school because another student and a school employee have been confirmed as having whooping cough.

Earlier this week, 65 unimmunized Mount Ogden students were sent home for at least five days after the school was notified that one of its students had been diagnosed with whooping cough.

Because of the additional cases, the school is considered to have an outbreak of whooping cough, said Glen Kinney, Weber/Morgan Health Department epidemiologist.

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The West Nile virus has done so well because it took advantage of a species that thrives around people: the American Robin. The American Robin is widely distributed throughout North America, wintering south of Canada from Florida to central Mexico and along the Pacific Coast. It is the state bird of Connecticut, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

West Nile outbreaks linked to 'super-spreader' birds

Lisa M Krieger San Jose Mercury News

Last updated Thursday, October 27, 2011 - 10:31am

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Like any new immigrant, the deadly West Nile virus became American almost immediately after landing on our shores -- altering itself to fit in, and then infecting a popular backyard bird to secure a firm foothold in its new home.

That is the startling conclusion of a decade-long analysis by University of California-Santa Cruz biologist Marm Kilpatrick, who explored the ecology of an infectious disease that killed five Californians this summer and sickened another 197, up from 82 last year.

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SH11J058PANDAS Oct. 12, 2011 -- Karli Bossman 8, plays with her pet bird at her home. (SHNS photo by Takaaki Iwabu / Raleigh News & Observer)

Obscure children's illness confounds families

Jay Price News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)

Last updated Friday, October 14, 2011 - 2:33pm

CLAYTON, N.C. -- Karli Bossman's odd behaviors came in a sudden, overwhelming wave.

Karli, then 5, had loved going to kindergarten, but suddenly she began grabbing doorframes and fighting furiously to stay home every morning when her parents tried to take her.

She was afraid to ride in cars because she feared they would run out of gas. She wouldn't go anywhere there was an elevator. She ripped off her shoes and socks no matter how many times her parents put them back on before school.

Karli had been sweet and gentle, but now there were meltdowns.

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