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China reports first death from H5N6 bird flu strain
May 07, 2014 (AFP)
A Chinese man has died from the H5N6 strain of bird flu, in what is believed to be the world's first case of human infection from the virus subtype, state media...
China study improves understanding of disease spread
May 02, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have shown how the travel and socialisation patterns of people in Southern China can give greater insight into how new...
Decrease in large wildlife drives rodent-borne diseases
May 01, 2014 (SPX)
Populations of large wildlife are declining around the world, while zoonotic diseases (those transmitted from animals to humans) are on the rise. A team of Smit...
Mystery of the pandemic flu virus of 1918 solved by University of Arizona researchers
Apr 30, 2014 (SPX)
A study led by Michael Worobey at the University of Arizona in Tucson provides the most conclusive answers yet to two of the world's foremost biomedical mysteri...
Re-Emergence of Ebola Focuses Need for Global Surveillance Strategies
Apr 27, 2014 (SPX)
EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization that focuses on conservation and global public health issues, published a comprehensive review today examining the ...
A plague in your family
Apr 25, 2014 (SPX)
For the first time, researchers have studied the Black Death bacterium's entire family tree to fully understand how some of the family members evolve to become ...
Catching more than fish: Ugandan town crippled by AIDS
Apr 23, 2014 (AFP)
When you risk your life fishing on dangerous seas, a drink in the bars back on shore seem a welcome relief, but in Uganda, it has created a culture with stagger...
New tool advances investigations of disease outbreaks
Apr 22, 2014 (SPX)
To combat disease outbreaks, public health officials often use painstaking fieldwork to try to stay one step ahead of the infectious bugs, linking patients' sym...
West Africa's Ebola outbreak prompts changes in I.Coast cuisine
Apr 20, 2014 (AFP)
West Africa's first outbreak of Ebola fever is bad news for gourmets in Ivory Coast, but brings respite from the hunter to species sought out for tasty meat but...
Mali remains free of deadly Ebola epidemic: government
Apr 15, 2014 (AFP)
Mali said on Tuesday it was clear of the Ebola epidemic suspected to be behind around 130 deaths this year in Guinea and Liberia. The health minister told repor...
Japan orders chicken cull after bird flu outbreak in south
Apr 13, 2014 (AFP)
Japan has ordered the slaughter of some 112,000 chickens after officials confirmed Sunday bird flu infections at a poultry farm in the south. DNA tests confirme...
West Africa mobilises against Ebola epidemic
Apr 04, 2014 (AFP)
West African countries mobilised Friday against an epidemic of haemorrhagic fevers including Ebola, which has claimed more than 80 lives in Guinea with more sus...
Liberia confirms spread of 'unprecedented' Ebola epidemic
Mar 31, 2014 (AFP)
Aid organisation Doctors Without Borders said Monday an Ebola outbreak suspected of killing dozens in Guinea was an "unprecedented epidemic" as Liberia confirme...
Iraq reports first suspected polio case since 2000
Mar 26, 2014 (AFP)
Iraq's health ministry said Wednesday it had found its first suspected polio case in 14 years, which could have originated in neighbouring Syria where confirmed...
Guinea confirms Ebola as source of deadly epidemic
Mar 22, 2014 (AFP)
Guinea identified the Ebola virus Saturday as the source of a highly contagious epidemic raging through its southern forests, as the death toll rose to 59. Expe...
Climate Conditions Help Forecast Meningitis Outbreaks
Mar 21, 2014 (SPX)
Determining the role of climate in the spread of certain diseases can assist health officials in "forecasting" epidemics. New research on meningitis incidence i...
Crimea: UN AIDS envoy worried for drug users
Mar 20, 2014 (AFP)
The UN's AIDS envoy for eastern Europe voiced fears Thursday for injecting drug users in Crimea who risk being cut off from a lifeline treatment prohibited in R...
Tamiflu cuts flu death risk by 25 percent: study
Mar 19, 2014 (AFP)
The anti-virus drug Tamiflu reduced the risk of death from flu by a quarter among adults who took it during the 2009-2010 H1N1 influenza pandemic, a study said ...
When big isn't better: How the flu bug bit Google
Mar 18, 2014 (SPX)
Numbers and data can be critical tools in bringing complex issues into crisp focus. The understanding of diseases, for example, benefits from algorithms that he...
Two-year-old Cambodian girl dies of bird flu
Mar 17, 2014 (AFP)
A two-year-old Cambodian girl has died from bird flu, becoming the country's fourth confirmed fatality -- all children -- from the deadly virus this year, healt...
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