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Fighting mosquito resistance to insecticides
Jul 28, 2015 (SPX)
Controlling mosquitoes that carry human diseases is a global health challenge as their ability to resist insecticides now threatens efforts to prevent epidemics...
It takes a village to ward off dangerous infections
Jul 28, 2015 (SPX)
Like a collection of ragtag villagers fighting off an invading army, the mix of bacteria that live in our guts may band together to keep dangerous infections fr...
Mowing dry detention basins makes mosquito problems worse, team finds
Jul 24, 2015 (SPX)
A study of the West Nile virus risk associated with "dry" water-detention basins in Central Illinois took an unexpected turn when land managers started mowing t...
Lack of knowledge on animal disease leaves humans at risk
Jul 21, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Sydney have painted the most detailed picture to date of major infectious diseases shared between wildlife and livestock, and...
UN needs $20 million to battle bird flu in West Africa
Jul 20, 2015 (AFP)
The UN appealed on Monday for $20 million to stem outbreaks of bird flu in West Africa, a region still weakened by the Ebola crisis. The Rome-based Food and Agr...
Chemists help develop a novel drug to fight malaria
Jul 16, 2015 (SPX)
An international team of scientists - led by researchers from the University of Washington and two other institutions - has announced that a new compound to fig...
Ban says world on way to 'generation free of AIDS'
Jul 14, 2015 (AFP)
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday the world was headed for a "generation free of AIDS", after UNAIDS reported a 35-percent drop in new HIV infection...
Algerian women with HIV suffer 'double punishment'
Jul 09, 2015 (AFP)
Like many women in Algeria infected by their husbands with HIV, 30-year-old Sihem is a victim twice over, living with her disease and suffering as a social outc...
Study explains how dengue virus adapts as it travels
Jul 08, 2015 (SPX)
A researcher from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is an integral member of a collaborative group that is the first to explain the mechanisms...
As blacklegged ticks migrate, Lyme disease follows
Jul 06, 2015 (UPI)
Lyme disease diagnoses are on the rise, and they're happening in places previously "Lyme-free." New research suggests Lyme-carrying blacklegged ticks are quickl...
Scientists, feds aim to curb spread of brucellosis in Yellowstone
Jul 03, 2015 (UPI)
Brucellosis is a bacterial disease commonly carried by elk and bison in Yellowstone National Park. The disease can sometimes make its way into domestic cattle h...
South Korea passes new law to curb MERS outbreak
Jun 26, 2015 (AFP)
South Korea has introduced a new law designed to curb a MERS outbreak, tightening quarantine restrictions and imposing jail sentences on those who defy anti-inf...
Bill Gates hopeful of AIDS vaccine in 10 years
Jun 26, 2015 (AFP)
Billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates, who spends millions of dollars on AIDS drug development, said Friday he hoped for a vaccine against the disease withi...
Five-year window for preventing AIDS rebound: experts
Jun 24, 2015 (AFP)
High rates of HIV infection combined with rapid population growth mean the next half-decade will be critical for rolling back AIDS, specialists warned on Thursd...
Ebola epidemic was disaster for malaria control: study
Jun 23, 2015 (AFP)
Untreated malaria in Guinea surged as a result of the Ebola scare and probably caused far more deaths than the dreaded haemorrhagic fever itself, doctors report...
MERS sparks mask rush in Asia, but are they effective?
Jun 18, 2015 (AFP)
As South Korea scrambles to control an outbreak of the killer MERS virus, its fearful citizens have donned surgical masks en masse -- but the jury is out on whe...
Activists struggle to replace state in fight with Russian AIDS epidemic
Jun 16, 2015 (AFP)
Waiting with his rucksack full of clean syringes by a pharmacy in the Moscow suburbs, Maxim Malyshev is fighting a lonely battle on the frontline of Russia's sp...
Virus evolution and human behavior shape global patterns of flu movement
Jun 15, 2015 (SPX)
The global movement patterns of all four seasonal influenza viruses are illustrated in research published in the journal Nature, providing a detailed account of...
US anthrax samples shipped to Japan in 2005: Pentagon
Jun 12, 2015 (AFP)
The US military shipped live anthrax to an American base in Japan a decade ago, bringing to five the number of countries that were inadvertently sent the lethal...
Woman isolated in Hong Kong hospital over MERS
Jun 10, 2015 (AFP)
A woman was rushed to a Hong Kong hospital Wednesday on suspicion she had contracted the potentially deadly MERS virus, as an outbreak in South Korea triggers a...
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