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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by the editors of HealthDay:

160 Now Sickened in Tuna-Linked Salmonella
Outbreak

A salmonella outbreak linked to a frozen yellowfin tuna product has now
sickened 160 people in 20 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said late Tuesday.

In a statement, the agency said 26 people have been hospitalized but
there have been no deaths reported.

On Monday, nearly 59,000 pounds of the product, labeled Nakaochi Scrape
AA or AAA, was recalled by Moon Marine USA Corp. of Cupertino, Calif. The
product, which is scraped off fish bones, was sold to grocery stores and
restaurants to make dishes such as sushi, sashimi and ceviche.

As reported by the Associated Press, many people who became ill
reported eating raw tuna in sushi as “spicy tuna.”

As of Friday, the CDC said illnesses linked to the recalled product had
been reported in: Alabama (2), Arkansas (1), Connecticut (6), District of
Columbia (2), Florida (1), Georgia (6), Illinois (14), Louisiana (3),
Maryland (14), Massachusetts (23), Mississippi (2), Missouri (4), New
Jersey (8), New York (30), North Carolina (3), Pennsylvania (6), Rhode
Island (5), South Carolina (3), Texas (4), Virginia (9) and Wisconsin
(14).

The CDC noted that salmonella illness is often serious for infants,
older adults, pregnant women and persons with impaired immune systems, and
these individuals should not eat raw or partially cooked fish or
shellfish.

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U.S. Women Trail Men in Life Span Gains:
Study

American men’s lifespans increased by an average of 4.6 years between
1989 and 2009, while women’s increased by only 2.7 years, a new study
says.

It also found large variations in average county-to-county life spans
across the nation, ranging from 66.1 to 81.6 years for men and 73.5 to 86
years for women, USA Today reported. In many counties, women’s life
spans are shorter than they were 20 years ago.

Even though women are still expected to outlive men by 4 years, these
finding are cause for concern, according to the study by researchers at
the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of
Washington.

“A gain in life expectancy should be equal among men and women,” said
research team director Ali Mokdad, USA Today reported. “This is a
wake-up call for all of us. It’s tragic that in a country as wealthy as
the United States, and with all the medical expertise we have, that so
many girls will live shorter lives than their mothers.”

Preventable causes of death, such as smoking, obesity and alcohol, are
key reasons for the differences between men and women.

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Vietnam Seeks Help With Mystery Illness That’s
Killed 19

Vietnam’s health ministry has asked international health experts for
help after a mystery illness killed 19 people and sickened 191 others in a
poor district in the central area of the country.

Children and young people have been hit hardest by the infection, which
begins with a high fever, loss of appetite and a rash that covers the
hands and feet. If not treated early, patients can develop liver problems
and eventually suffer multi-organ failure, CBS News/Associated
Press reported.

Nearly 100 people are still in hospital, including 10 in critical
condition. Patients with milder symptoms are being treated at home.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Health sent a team to the Ba To district earlier
this month but they couldn’t determine the cause of the illness. The
ministry has asked for help from the World Health Organization and the
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Health Care Disparities Persist for U.S.
Minority Groups: Report

Access to health care did not improve for most racial and ethnic
minorities in the United States between 2002 and 2008, says a report
released Friday by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality.

The National Healthcare Disparities Report looks at about 250 health
care measures and found that about half of the measures that track
disparities showed no improvement, while 40 percent got worse.

Compared to whites, Hispanics, American Indians and Alaska Natives had
worse access to care on more than 60 percent of the access measures,
blacks had worse access on slightly more than 30 percent, and Asian
Americans had worse access on 17 percent.

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Gulf Seafood Safe to Eat: FDA

Despite continuing concerns about the safety of seafood from the Gulf
of Mexico, U.S. officials insist that Gulf seafood on the market is safe
to eat.

Two years after the massive BP oil spill, some scientists say that
lesions and other deformities on some Gulf fish indicate lingering
environmental damage.

“It’s important to emphasize that we’re talking about a low percentage
of fish,” Dr. Robert W. Dickey, head of the Food and Drug Administration‘s
Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory, told the Associated Press. “It
doesn’t represent a seafood safety hazard.”

He noted that wholesalers and seafood processors must follow FDA rules
on what constitutes a safe and usable catch. Fish with lesions or signs of
parasites or disease can’t be sold.

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U.S. Team Heads to Everest to Study Effects of
High Altitude

U.S. researchers plan to establish a laboratory at the base of Mount
Everest in order to study the effects of high altitude on humans.

The Mayo Clinic team flew to the Mount Everest region on Friday and
plans to monitor nine climbers attempting to conquer the world’s highest
mountain, the Associated Press reported.

Learning more about the effects of high altitude on the heart, lungs,
muscle loss and sleep could help patients with heart conditions and other
health problems, the researchers explained.

The team’s laboratory at the Mayo focuses on lung congestion in heart
failure patients and lung congestion often kills mountain climbers, team
leader Dr. Bruce Johnson told the AP.

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Starbucks Eliminating Bug-based Dye From
Products

A crimson food dye made from crushed bugs will be phased out of four
food and two beverage products, Starbucks says.

Instead of using the bug-based dye called cochineal extract, the
company says it will use lycopene, a natural tomato-based extract using
for coloring, CBS News reported.

Starbucks was the target of a social media campaign after it became
known that the company used cochineal extract in some of its products.

Cochineal extract is safe and food and cosmetic product labels must
state if the dye is present, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.
They dye, which has been used for thousands of years to color fabrics, is
often found in yogurts, candies, ice creams, ketchup, fruit drinks,
lipsticks, nail polish, eye shadow and other pink and red products, CBS
News reported.

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