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Cambodia orders probe into mass HIV infection

Dec 18, 2014 (AFP)

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday ordered a probe into an apparent mass HIV infection believed to have been spread by contaminated needles, as the nu...

Iraqi man who lost five sons to AIDS in weary fight for justice

Dec 17, 2014 (AFP)

First one of his sons died, then another and another. By 1996, Khalid al-Jabor had lost five children to AIDS, all victims of contaminated blood allegedly expor...

Cambodia village reports mass HIV/AIDS infection

Dec 16, 2014 (AFP)

Cambodian health authorities on Tuesday said more than 80 people -- including children and the elderly -- who tested positive for HIV/AIDS in a single remote vi...

Ebola virus may replicate in an exotic way

Dec 16, 2014 (SPX)

University of Utah researchers ran biochemical analysis and computer simulations of a livestock virus to discover a likely and exotic mechanism to explain the r...

Prepare for severe flu season: US health chiefs

Dec 04, 2014 (AFP)

This year's flu season could be especially severe, US health authorities warned Thursday, adding that genetic mutations mean the vaccine won't be as effective a...

Teens turn to text messages for AIDS advice in Zambia

Dec 02, 2014 (AFP)

The questions teenagers ask about HIV are brutally honest, anonymous -- and sent in 160 characters or less over mobile phone text messages. At U-Report, a Zambi...

Bird flu found at two farms in Canada

Dec 02, 2014 (AFP)

Authorities in Canada said Tuesday they put two poultry farms in British Columbia under quarantine after they tested positive for bird flu. "Preliminary testing...

Water-borne disease plagues IS-held city in Iraq

Dec 01, 2014 (AFP)

When Islamic State group fighters swept into northern Iraq's second city Mosul in a lightning June offensive, their propaganda trumpeted a better life for the p...

WHO warning as China says nearly 500,000 living with HIV

Dec 01, 2014 (AFP)

The World Health Organization issued a call to action to China Monday over HIV/AIDS as government figures said nearly half a million people are living with the ...

Teenagers, children missing out in AIDS fight: US

Dec 01, 2014 (AFP)

Greater efforts are needed in the fight against AIDS to reach at-risk teenagers and children who are failing to get as much help as other communities, US offici...

New Dutch cull ordered after bird flu confirmed as H5N8

Dec 01, 2014 (AFP)

Dutch authorities on Monday ordered the cull of 50,000 poultry after a bird flu outbreak on a nearby farm was confirmed as the highly pathogenic H5N8 strain. Th...

Uganda 'HIV nurse' to be released from jail

Nov 28, 2014 (AFP)

A court in Uganda on Friday upheld the conviction for criminal negligence of a HIV-infected nurse who inserted a needle into a two-year-old child after pricking...

Canada sending medics to West Africa to fight Ebola

Nov 27, 2014 (AFP)

Canada will send 40 military medics to West Africa to help fight the Ebola outbreak, officials said Thursday while also encouraging Canadian health care workers...

HIV infections double in Russia, ex-Soviet states

Nov 27, 2014 (AFP)

HIV infections have doubled in ten years in Russia and former Soviet states, due mainly to unprotected sex and injecting drugs, a report said Thursday. More tha...

Most US HIV cases not under control: study

Nov 26, 2014 (AFP)

As many as 70 percent of people infected with HIV in the United States do not have the virus under control, boosting the risk of transmission, according to a st...

Intelligence agency shares unclassified data in fight against Ebola

Nov 25, 2014 (UPI)

A U.S. intelligence agency has launched a public website to provide unclassified geospatial intelligence data to aid in the battle against Ebola in Africa. The ...

Apple teams with (RED) to fight AIDS

Nov 24, 2014 (AFP)

Apple on Monday teamed with the (RED) campaign founded by U2 singer Bono to raise money to fight AIDS. The move came as the California-based maker of iPhones, i...

World Bank's Kim: end of Ebola epidemic 'not near'

Nov 21, 2014 (AFP)

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim warned Friday that the Ebola epidemic is "not close to being over" after a new front opened against the deadly disease in Mali...

UN warns over threat of AIDS rebound

Nov 19, 2014 (AFP)

South African actress Charlize Theron threw her weight Tuesday behind an urgent new UN campaign to end AIDS as a global health threat by 2030. The UN warned the...

Scientists worry bed bugs could spread Chagas disease

Nov 18, 2014 (UPI)

Bed bugs are every urbanite's worst nightmare, but from a public health perspective, they're considered rather harmless. Unlike rats or mosquitos, there's no ev...