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Macau culls 7,500 chicken over bird flu scare
Mar 13, 2014 (AFP)
Macau culled 7,500 chicken after discovering the H7-type avian influenza in live poultry for the first time in the city, authorities said Thursday, adding the b...
H7N9 bird flu comes home to roost in China
Mar 11, 2014 (AFP)
The handful of poultry dealers lingering at Chengbei Market have had little to do since Chinese authorities shut down their livelihoods after H7N9 bird flu bega...
China bird flu deaths reach 72 this year: government
Mar 10, 2014 (AFP)
A total of 72 people died from the H7N9 bird flu strain in China in the first two months of this year, government figures showed, far more than in the whole of ...
Birds of all feathers and global flu diversity
Mar 10, 2014 (SPX)
A group of international scientists have completed the first global inventory of flu strains in birds by reviewing more than 50 published studies and genetic da...
Another Cambodian boy dies of bird flu: hospital
Mar 10, 2014 (AFP)
An 11-year-old Cambodian boy has died of bird flu, a hospital official said Monday, the impoverished kingdom's third confirmed fatality -- all children -- from ...
Cambodian boy dies of bird flu in second death for 2014
Mar 07, 2014 (AFP)
A three-year-old Cambodian boy has died of bird flu, the health ministry said Friday, in the country's second fatality this year. The boy, from a village on the...
Malaria on the move as temps warm: study
Mar 06, 2014 (AFP)
Malaria is on the march to higher elevations as temperatures warm due to climate change, a trend that could increase the number of people sickened by the diseas...
Taking 'scissors' to immune cells shows HIV promise
Mar 05, 2014 (AFP)
A new gene therapy approach that engineers a person's T cells so that they become resistant to the human immunodeficiency virus has shown early signs of success...
Breakthrough in long-lasting AIDS drugs in monkeys
Mar 05, 2014 (AFP)
A single shot of antiretroviral drugs protected lab monkeys from the AIDS virus for weeks, according to two US trials released on Tuesday that open the way to t...
Hong Kong reports sixth H7N9 bird flu case
Mar 04, 2014 (AFP)
Hong Kong confirmed Tuesday a new human case of the deadly H7N9 avian flu found in an 18-month-old girl, the sixth case to be discovered in the city. Fears over...
Early warning system for epidemics
Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)
The environment has an impact on our health. Preventing epidemics relies on activating the right counter-measures, and scientists are now trying to find out how...
The parasite that escaped out of Africa
Feb 25, 2014 (SPX)
An international team of scientists has traced the origin of Plasmodium vivax, the second-worst malaria parasite of humans, to Africa, according to a study publ...
Study on flu evolution may change textbooks, history books
Feb 21, 2014 (SPX)
A new study reconstructing the evolutionary tree of flu viruses challenges conventional wisdom and solves some of the mysteries surrounding flu outbreaks of his...
Flu hits young, middle aged people hard this year
Feb 20, 2014 (AFP)
The flu is hitting young and middle aged people in the United States particularly hard this season, as a tough flu strain re-emerged and too few people were vac...
Poland struck by first cases of African swine fever
Feb 18, 2014 (AFP)
Poland on Tuesday said it was taking action to stop the spread of African swine fever as it confirmed its first two cases and the European Union worked to end a...
Boy becomes Cambodia's first bird flu death of year
Feb 12, 2014 (AFP)
An eight-year-old boy has died from bird flu in Cambodia, the country's first confirmed fatality from the deadly virus this year, a health official said Wednesd...
January worst month in China's human H7N9 outbreak: govt
Feb 10, 2014 (AFP)
A total of 31 people died from H7N9 bird flu in mainland China in January, the government announced Monday, making it by far the worst month in the outbreak. Th...
Vietnam reports second bird flu death in 2014
Feb 06, 2014 (AFP)
Vietnam has recorded its second death from bird flu in 2014, a health official said Thursday, as regional concerns over a potential resurgence of the deadly vir...
Chinese scientists sound warning over new bird flu
Feb 05, 2014 (AFP)
Chinese scientists sounded the alarm Wednesday after a new bird flu virus, H10N8, killed an elderly woman in December and infected another individual last month...
Ugandan army winning hearts, minds and foreskins
Feb 04, 2014 (AFP)
Ugandan troops have been marking national army week celebrations with a public health drive that includes distributing condoms and circumcising men as part of e...
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