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Hong Kong to quarantine 17 people over bird flu case
Dec 03, 2013 (AFP)
Hong Kong will quarantine 17 people after the city confirmed its first human case of the deadly H7N9 bird flu, officials said Tuesday. The 17 are mostly relativ...
Iran warns of soaring AIDS cases
Dec 02, 2013 (AFP)
The number of AIDS cases in Iran has soared over the past two decades, Health Minister Hassan Hashemi said Monday, warning the Islamic republic can not ignore t...
Obama offers up to $5 billion to tackle AIDS
Dec 02, 2013 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama on Monday pledged up to $5 billion to fight HIV/AIDS as long as the rest of the world collectively offers double that amount. Obama ur...
Hong Kong confirms first human case of H7N9 bird flu: report
Dec 02, 2013 (AFP)
Hong Kong on Monday confirmed its first human case of the deadly H7N9 bird flu, according to a report, in the latest sign of the virus spreading beyond mainland...
Suu Kyi urges 'freedom from fear' on World AIDS Day
Dec 01, 2013 (AFP)
Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi called on World AIDS Day Sunday for an end to discrimination against those living with the disease as experts warned against com...
Is S.Africa's HIV treatment success breeding complacency?
Nov 29, 2013 (AFP)
South Africa has been hailed as a model for HIV treatment, but some now fear its very success may be breeding complacency and making people less careful about i...
New, aggressive HIV strain causes AIDS faster
Nov 28, 2013 (AFP)
A new and more aggressive strain of HIV discovered in West Africa causes significantly faster progression to AIDS, researchers at Sweden's Lund University said ...
AIDS in South Africa: Grants fight 'sugar daddy' peril
Nov 26, 2013 (AFP)
Government grants to help poor children in South Africa also play an important role in reducing HIV risk from "sugar daddies" who prey on teenage girls, a study...
New malaria vaccines roadmap targets next generation products by 2030
Nov 19, 2013 (SPX)
The world should aim to have vaccines which reduce malaria cases by 75 percent, and are capable of eliminating malaria, licensed by 2030, according to the updat...
Indonesian woman dies of bird flu: health ministry
Nov 18, 2013 (AFP)
An Indonesian woman living near the capital Jakarta has died of bird flu, the health ministry said, the latest death from H5N1 in the country hardest hit by the...
Technology helps Nigeria's fight against polio
Nov 15, 2013 (AFP)
Mahmud Zubairu scrutinises the computer screen in front of him, watching the progress of healthcare workers as they fan out across Nigeria's northern Kano state...
Man dies, toddler critical in new Cambodia bird flu cases
Nov 14, 2013 (AFP)
A 29-year-old man has died from bird flu in Cambodia and a toddler is critically ill with the virus after carrying sick and dead poultry from a market, health a...
Taiwan doctors urge vigilance over new bird flu virus
Nov 14, 2013 (AFP)
Researchers in Taiwan on Thursday called on watchdogs to keep up their guard after a flu virus that commonly circulates among chickens was found for the first t...
How zinc starves lethal bacteria to stop infection
Nov 14, 2013 (SPX)
Australian researchers have found that zinc can 'starve' one of the world's most deadly bacteria by preventing its uptake of an essential metal. The finding, by...
France okays home tests for HIV
Nov 07, 2013 (AFP)
Self-testing HIV kits will go on sale in France next year under a strategy aimed at reducing the spread of the virus causing AIDS, Health Minister Marisol Toura...
Researchers find HIV's 'invisibility cloak'
Nov 06, 2013 (AFP)
Scientists said Wednesday they had found an "invisibility cloak" that allows the AIDS virus to lurk unnoticed in human cells after infection and replicate witho...
Breakthrough in hunt for HIV vaccine
Nov 01, 2013 (AFP)
US scientists seeking to unravel the mysteries of HIV have made an important breakthrough after capturing the clearest image yet of a protein which allows the d...
Poultry market closures do well to halt bird flu: study
Oct 31, 2013 (AFP)
Closing live poultry markets, though a huge economic setback, is a sure-fire way of curbing the deadly H7N9 bird flu in case of an outbreak, disease control res...
SARS-like viruses can jump from bats to humans: study
Oct 30, 2013 (AFP)
Scientists said Wednesday they had found evidence that SARS-like coronaviruses can jump straight from a type of Chinese bat to humans without the need for an in...
The role of uncertainty in infectious disease modelling
Oct 28, 2013 (SPX)
Research by scientists at the University of Liverpool has found that greater consideration of the limitations and uncertainties in infectious disease modelling ...
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