...will have to be removed,'' he says. Since he's without a spleen, he has to be careful about contracting bacterial illnesses and in fact will have to take penicillin every day for the rest of his life, he said. And he's got a touch...

...the crime is asked to call Juneau police at 586-0600. Oyster illness found at more Alaska farms ANCHORAGE - A bacterial illness in oysters has turned up at three more oyster farms in Alaska. All three of the farms have voluntarily stopped selling...

...and have shots,'' Becker told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Hepatitis A and B are liver diseases. Hib is a bacterial illness that usually strikes children under age 5 and is the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in young children, Becker...

...children younger than 5 years old in the Yukon-Kuskokwim region are five to 10 times more likely to suffer from a bacterial illness called invasive pneumococcal disease than other Alaska kids. Between 1.7 and 2.5 percent of Alaska children...