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Flu shots pose no extra risk of pregnancy loss
Jan 17, 2013 (AFP)
Pregnant women in Norway who got vaccinated against the swine flu virus that caused the 2009-2010 pandemic showed no increased risk of pregnancy loss, contrary ...
Medicinal toothbrush tree yields antibiotic to treat TB in new way
Jan 16, 2013 (SPX)
A compound from the South African toothbrush tree inactivates a drug target for tuberculosis in a previously unseen way. Tuberculosis causes more deaths worldwi...
Dengue showing global 'epidemic potential': WHO
Jan 16, 2013 (AFP)
The World Health Organisation said on Wednesday that it had charted progress in the fight against tropical diseases but warned that dengue fever was spreading a...
Australian study turns HIV against itself
Jan 16, 2013 (AFP)
An Australian scientist said Wednesday he had discovered a way to turn the HIV virus against itself in human cells in the laboratory, in an important advance in...
Swine flu kills second Jordanian in week: minister
Jan 13, 2013 (AFP)
A Jordanian woman has died of swine flu in the second such death in a week, Health Minister Abdullatif Wreikat said on Sunday. "The woman, who was in her fortie...
New York declares flu emergency
Jan 13, 2013 (AFP)
New York's governor has declared a health emergency over a flu epidemic that has hit more than 19,000 people in the state, and in an exceptional measure cleared...
Death toll rises as flu epidemic grips US
Jan 11, 2013 (AFP)
The death toll from a flu outbreak gripping the United States has reached epidemic levels and it will be at least several weeks before the outbreak abates, heal...
Rainfall, brain infection linked in sub-Saharan Africa
Jan 09, 2013 (SPX)
The amount of rainfall affects the number of infant infections leading to hydrocephalus in Uganda, according to a team of researchers who are the first to demon...
Swine flu kills Jordanian: health minister
Jan 06, 2013 (AFP)
The H1N1 influenza strain known as swine flu killed a 26-year-old Jordanian man on Sunday, Health Minister Abdullatif Wreikat said on Sunday. "The 26-year-old d...
Scientists say vaccine temporarily brakes HIV
Jan 03, 2013 (AFP)
A team of Spanish researchers say they have developed a therapeutic vaccine that can temporarily brake growth of the HIV virus in infected patients. The vaccine...
Penn Team Mimicking a Natural Defense Against Malaria to Develop New Treatments
Jan 01, 2013 (SPX)
One of the world's most devastating diseases is malaria, responsible for at least a million deaths annually, despite global efforts to combat it. Researchers fr...
Swine flu kills nine Palestinians
Dec 29, 2012 (AFP)
Nine Palestinians have died in an outbreak of the H1N1 influenza strain known as swine flu, the office of Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad said on Saturd...
Bangladesh slaughters 150,000 birds over avian flu
Dec 26, 2012 (AFP)
Bangladesh's livestock authorities are slaughtering around 150,000 chickens at a giant poultry farm near Dhaka after the worst outbreak of avian flu in five yea...
New whole plant therapy shows promise as an effective and economical treatment for malaria
Dec 26, 2012 (SPX)
In the worldwide battle to curtail malaria, one of the most prevalent and deadly infectious diseases of the developing world, drug after drug has fallen by the ...
Pigs in southern China infected with avian flu
Dec 24, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers report for the first time the seroprevalence of three strains of avian influenza viruses in pigs in southern China, but not the H5N1 avian influenza...
Tracking the origins of HIV
Dec 24, 2012 (SPX)
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may have affected humans for much longer than is currently believed. Alfred Roca, an assistant professor in the College of Ag...
3 Palestinians dead from swine flu: health ministry
Dec 20, 2012 (AFP)
Three Palestinians in the West Bank have died in the past week from the H1N1 influenza strain known as swine flu, the Palestinian health ministry said on Thursd...
WHO head warns diseases set to rise
Dec 20, 2012 (AFP)
The head of the World Health Organization warned Thursday that infectious diseases will spread more easily in the future due to globalisation, changing lifestyl...
Four-year-old dies from bird flu in Indonesia
Dec 18, 2012 (AFP)
A four-year-old boy has died of bird flu in Indonesia, the health ministry said Tuesday, the 10th fatal case in the country this year. The boy, from Bogor distr...
Why some strains of Lyme disease bacteria are common and others are not
Dec 11, 2012 (SPX)
New clues about the bacteria that cause Lyme disease could lead to a novel strategy to reduce infections, according to a study to be published in mBio, the onli...
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