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elizabeth cohen joins us now. handling anthrax is difficult enough, mishandling seems awfully concerning. >> it's especially concerning because these are the guys who are supposed to be the experts. the rest of the world looks to them on how to handle these things. they are supposed to be the best and they messed up. that's what's especially concerning. i don't think this is a public health threat. there's so many different layers of security even though some of these layers may have been messed up, others were in place. it's not as if they blasted these into the city of atlanta. they are supposed to be the best at it. >> we have heard the terrible tales of anthrax. this stuff is dangerous. it can be fatal if you come into contact. >> absolutely. anthrax is a bacteria that then makes poivens and spread around your body. there's so many ways to get sick from it. there are antibiotics that can help if you get them soon enough, but this is really serious stuff. >> i had my anthrax vaccines when i was in iraq. i was i

let's go to our medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. what do all of these findings mean?> i'm going to translate it into one sentence. get your child vaccinated. >> there you go. >> the benefits are huge, not just to your child so that your child doesn't get other children sick and the downsides are few, and they are so few and far between that the benefits far outweigh the risks and you'll notice that i did not say autism. vaccines do not cause autism. yet again, doctors are telling us this. >> that's one story. we were talking in our morning meeting for women, when you go into the gynecologist and get your pap smear once a year, the gynecologist will sometimes do a pelvic exam. so internists are coming forward and saying, eh, don't need to do this. >> get the feet out of the stirrups. >> we're talking about the manual exam with the doctor. it's an external exam, feels around and makes sure nothing is growing where it shouldn't be growing. internists say that we're not finding that lives are being saved by doing these exams. that's how the internists feel. if you ask the

i think they'll feel the wait they feel. >> elizabeth cohen, this is an important subject.he science matters a lot. thank you so much for your report. >>> do you watch "man versus food?" you know the host of that show, he was supposed to launch a new show on the travel channel, things got a little nasty. the question is, did the tv network overreact or do tv personalities need to do better, be better about censoring themselves on social media? today's chevrolet has it all. and it's a great time to buy. during the chevy 72 hour sale, you'll get 0% apr for 72 months. plus no monthly payments for the rest of the summer. 0% apr for 72 months plus no monthly payments for the rest of the summer. hurry, the chevy 72 hour sale ends monday. find new roads at your local chevy dealer. veggies you're cool... reworking the menu. mayo, corn dogs...you are so out of here! ahh... the complete balanced nutrition of great tasting ensure. 24 vitamins and minerals. 9 grams of protein... with 30% less sugars than before. ensure, your #1 dr. recommended brand now introduces ensure active. muscle

our senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen, joins me now. ounds so weird, a smell test for alzheimer's, but it turns out the part of our brain that governs smell and alzheimer's are really the same part of our brain. so when smell starts suffering, it may be an indication you're going to go on to develop alzheimer's. so in this test, they gave people a different smells. and people who had a tough time distinguishing one smell from another, they were more likely to have alzheimer's. and the test was pretty good. it wasn't perfect, but quite accurate. >> so there's also an eye test. how does that work? >> when people get alzheimer's, don, they get these tangles in plaques you can see afterwards in an autopsy. you want do that when someone is alive, but if you look in the eye, you can sometimes see the same plaques and tangles, visualize them. and this test, very similar to the smell test, was not completely accurate. but did a really pretty good job of predicting who was going to get alzheimer's. >> so you say that we are years away, elizabeth,

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senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is here to explain all of. elizabeth?'ve all heard that too much salts bad for you, that's why restaurants and been told, try to get the sodium levels down in some of your foods. some restaurants have heard that that. for example, mcdonald's, subway, they've gotten the salt levels down. other restaurants, some of their items have actually gotten saltier over the years. let's take a look at some of them. for example, a jack-in-the-box, hamburger from 2009-2013, the sodium level went up 26%. kfc, the grilled drumstick, salt level went up 45% over the 4 years. sonic tater tots up 84% in sodium levels. we asked the restaurant industry what's going on here. across our highly diverse industry, restaurants and actively engaged in efforts to provide consumers with lower sodium options, efforts to lower sodium are impacted by consumer preference and limited technology. or put it this way, people like salty foods so some restaurant are going to continue to salty food. increases in sodium levels put some meals over the top. before i

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our senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen, is joining me.nd it's frightening, because what's the number, 90%, ebola typically kills 90% infected. >> the morality rate that high, incredibly high. and it's not that high now. and one of the reasons may be, they're getting to people earlier and hydrating them. with ebola, you lose so much of your bodily fluids that in the end that's what helps kill you. there is no cure. but early treatment can really help. >> so we're talking about africa, the obvious follow is -- well, could this spread to the u.s.? >> you know, certainly people are worried about that and the centers for disease control just about an hour ago had a telephone press conference, i think because they are worried that people are worried about that. and they say the risk is very low. of course, they're taking precautions. but, you know, think about it this way. ebola doesn't spread like the flu. if i had the flu and i was sitting here with you, you could get it from me, because it's airborne. you would get ebola from me, you would h

elizabeth cohen joins me from atlanta.dpoint, scientific standpoint, not because you've done this before, i would hope. >> no, just seeing that huge platter -- ew. >> i actually don't want a hot dog today. >> exactly. >> let's not get too graphic because it's early in the day, some people eating their breakfast or lunch depending. how can the human stomach expand that much? >> they will train for this. they will eat lots and lots of things like cabbage that are low calorie but will stretch the stomach. guzzle a lot of water. it's a muscle, you stretch it over time. there's a regiment here they follow. >> they actually have a regiment. startling to me, a lot of these people are not big people. >> not at all. >> sonya the black widow, a female, she's won this. i have to tell you, it is just astou astounding. fourth of july revelers are bound to do a lot of partying this weekend, maybe hit a few clubs. a new study says head banging can hurt you? >> yes, we mean the real head banging. we mean like yeah, exactly, whipping aroun

let's dig deeper with cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. some people seem to think that this one child with h1n1 is a threat to our health here in the u.s., but what's the reality check? >> the reality is that there is not a public health threat. if people truly believed that this child is a threat then they should have put themselves in a bubble that past winter when tens of thousands of people in this country had h1n1 and it was rampant, so this one child with h1n1 when we already have h1n1 in this country really doesn't make a difference. >> i personally had a very close relative who had it so i went through that with a family member myself. there is this issue, i wonder, of public health when you are looking at kids and maybe as many as 1500 a day. that's a lot of kids. some of them in confined spaces. how do you keep these kids that are illegally crossing the border healthy? >> right. that's certainly a challenge. one of the things they're doing at these shelters, we talked to the folks who run them is when unaccompanied minors come in

elizabeth cohen reports. >> reporter:kansas authorities are warning people about swimming in fresh waterlakes and ponds. all because of a brain- eating amoeba, that health officials say, took the life of nine year old, hally yust last week. >> reporter:she was an avid water skier - and over the last few weeks, was in four different bodies of freshwater. >> reporter:it's called naegleria fowleri, it lives in warm, standing waterand even though the amoeba is rare, it can enter through the nose while in the water. it can cause a severe headache, fever, nausea and vomitingand in most cases, death. >>"the amoeba finds itself way back in our noses and then can work its way into our central nervous system, around our brains, and once it's there it just causes destruction." >> reporter:last summer, a 12-year old florida boy named zachary reyna, contracted the infection after he went knee boarding in fresh water near his home. he later died. >> reporter: a 12 year old girl from little rock, arkansas, went for a swim and was infected by the parasite. although her prognosis was poor, she survived.

senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is here with more. good morning.igger memories, how is it being used, smell that, rather, how is it being used to test for alzheimers? >> this is really fascinating. it turns out smell and memory are controlled from the same area of the brain. so researchers said, gee, i wonder if maybe smell problems show up first? they took healthy volunteers, and they tested their sense of smell and the folks who had trouble distinguishing different smells, well, they were much more likely to get alzheimer's later in life. so the smell or lack thereof, the lack of the ability to smell really did a great job at predicting who would get alzheimer's. >> interesting indicator. how about the eye test? what can the eye testing show us? >> with alzheimers in the brain you get plaques and tangles, you can see them when you do an autopsy on someone. when they looked in the eye, they saw some of the same plaques and tangles. so, again, able to predict not 100%, but with a great deal of accuracy who would get alzheimer's based on what their

cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us now. i find this a little confounding.we get a pelvic exam when we see our obgyn. now it's changing. why is it only women pregnant and under a certain age are going to require them? >> well, it may be changing for some women and here's where it gets confusing. the nation's internists, that's an important point, the nation's internists, not gynecologists, have come out this week and say we don't think these are necessary these pelvic exams. they don't find cancer, they don't find infection. we should get women out of the stirups and say forget it, sit up, ladies, but the nation's gynecologists say we get it, there may not be any proof these exams do any good. there's no proof they necessarily do any harm, so come on in, ladies, and have a discussion with your gynecologist about whether or not you need this exam. michaela, i will tell you, i this i that women are probably going to listen to their gynecologist on this topic that involves that area of the body and that they're probably going to go in and have a discussion and

our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is live with more on this. on. how serious is this, elizabeth? >> no one has gotten sick so far that we know of and that's great but listeria should taken seriously. it can cause miscarriages and can be fatal, especially for the elderly and for babies. let's take a look at some of the stores and some of the fruits that we're talking about. so costco, trader joe's, kroger, walmart, and we're talking about peaches, nectarines, plums, pluots, a plum/apricot combination, of course, the fruits that have the pig stones or big pits in the middle of them. this all started when the rwwana company noticed they had litteria in one of their facilities. they have now shut it down and sterilized. >> at least folks can be aware if they purchased there what to do. >>> time now for "inside politics." new poll numbers show even with escalating crises abroad the president doesn't seem to be losing so much ground but isn't gaining either. a new cnn/orc poll shows the president's approval rating shows at 43%, within the margin of er

elizabeth cohen breaks down the good, the bad and the ugly. good morning, first of all.ffenders on this list. >> some restaurants are doing great, mcdonald's for example, subway, they've done a great job getting some of the sodium out of their meals. hour, some restaurants have actually put more salt in some of their meals so let's look at what some of those are. for example, at jack in the box the salt went up 26% from 2009 to 2013 in their hamburgers, exactly, and the kfc dwrgrilled drumstick, the salt went up 45%. they're supposed to put less in. tater tots at sonic, 84% salt increase. >> wait a second! what is this about? given all that we know, elizabeth, why on earth when the push has been to take salt out of our food, why on earth are they putting more in 84% more? >> that's right, michaela. the push has been there, it's bad for your blood pressure, your heart, all sorts of things. we asked the national restaurant association about this, and this is what they had to say. they said "across our highly diverse industry, restaurants are actively engaged in efforts to

our senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen, joins us now from atlanta. >> michaela, this is an extremely rare situation, but this amoeba is extremely deadly and enters through the nose and goes right to the brain. kansas authorities are warning people about swimming in fresh water lakes and ponds, all because of a brain-eating amoeba that health officials took the life of 9-year-old hally yust last week. she was an avid water skier and the last four weeks, was in four different bodies of fresh water. it lives in warm, standing water and even though the amoeba is rare it can enter through the nose while in the water. it can cause a severe headache, fever, nausea and vomiting and in most cases, death. >> the amoeba then finds itself way back in our noses and then can work its way into our central nervous system, around our brains and once it's there, it just causes destruction. >> reporter: last summer, a 12-year-old florida boy named zachary rana contracted the infection after he went knee boarding in fresh water near his home he died. later, a 12-year-ol