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Indonesia says it has found more virulent bird flu strain
Dec 11, 2012 (AFP)
Indonesia has identified the bird flu virus that killed hundreds of thousands of ducks in recent weeks as a more virulent type which is new to the country, acco...
Copper restricts the spread of global antibiotic-resistant infections
Dec 11, 2012 (SPX)
New research from the University of Southampton has shown that copper can prevent horizontal transmission of genes, which has contributed to the increasing numb...
More S.African pregnant women contracting HIV: study
Dec 10, 2012 (AFP)
A new study on Monday showed increased HIV infection rates among pregnant women living in areas with high migrant labour in South Africa, the country with one o...
Birds may spread, not halt, fever-bearing ticks
Dec 06, 2012 (SPX)
Turkey raises and releases thousands of non-native guineafowl to eat ticks that carry the deadly Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus. Yet research suggests gu...
Zambia court told HIV prisoners denied drugs, proper food
Dec 03, 2012 (AFP)
Zambia's High Court on Monday heard that HIV-positive prisoners were being denied access to life-prolonging drugs and a balanced diet, on the opening day of a l...
Stigma for Central America's HIV-positive kids
Dec 01, 2012 (AFP)
Four-year-old Carlos, who makes a lengthy trip every two weeks with his teenage aunt to a special clinic in El Salvador's capital, has no notion of the cruel st...
AIDS: Chinese study raises flag over drugs-as-prevention hope
Dec 01, 2012 (AFP)
A Chinese study published on World AIDS Day on Saturday says drugs used to curb HIV in infected people also help protect their uninfected partner, but far less ...
Activist discusses challenge of growing old with HIV
Nov 30, 2012 (AFP)
Old age comes faster and hits harder for those infected with HIV, a fact aging health activist Ron Swanda knows all too well. Swanda, 66, diagnosed as HIV-posit...
Pakistan clerics join fight against AIDS
Nov 30, 2012 (AFP)
Pakistani cleric Abdul Khaliq Faridi used to think HIV/AIDS was a mortal sin. But today, he educates thousands about a disease that is on the rise in the deeply...
New method for diagnosing malaria
Nov 29, 2012 (SPX)
Malaria is a life-threatening disease that strikes more than 200 million people every year - mainly in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The disease is caused by ...
Scripps Research Institute scientists describe elusive replication machinery of flu viruses
Nov 29, 2012 (SPX)
November 22, 2012 - Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have made a major advance in understanding how flu viruses replicate within infected cel...
British AIDS charity marks 30 years of fear and hope
Nov 29, 2012 (AFP)
When Terry Higgins first collapsed, struggling for breath, at London's Heaven nightclub in 1982, he brushed it off. Only a few weeks later he was dead, one of B...
US unveils road map to AIDS-free generation
Nov 29, 2012 (AFP)
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled Thursday an ambitious US blueprint on how to realize the dream of an AIDS-free generation, aiming to see virtually n...
China AIDS activists reject Li olive branch
Nov 29, 2012 (AFP)
Chinese AIDS activists on Thursday accused the Communist Party's new number two Li Keqiang of hypocrisy after he called for more non-government efforts to fight...
This week's forecast: Sunny with a 40 percent chance of flu
Nov 27, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists have developed a system to predict the timing and severity of seasonal influenza outbreaks that could one day help health officials and the general p...
Nearly half a million Arabs HIV-infected: UN
Nov 26, 2012 (AFP)
The United Nations said on Monday that the number of people in Arab countries infected with HIV more than doubled to 470,000 in the eight years to 2009. "The nu...
New strain of bird virus sweeps across Britain
Nov 26, 2012 (SPX)
Avian pox has been recorded in British bird species such as house sparrows and wood pigeons for a number of years. However, the emergence of a new strain of thi...
Yellow fever-hit Darfur gets help from US Navy
Nov 23, 2012 (AFP)
US Navy medical experts have arrived in Sudan to help analyse samples of suspected yellow fever, which has killed 127 people in the Darfur region since early Se...
G.Bissau warns AIDS patients without treatment since coup
Nov 21, 2012 (AFP)
HIV-positive people in Guinea Bissau have been without access to treatment since the Global Fund to fight AIDS suspended funding over an April military coup, th...
Baiting Mosquitoes with Knowledge and Proven Insecticides
Nov 20, 2012 (SPX)
While one team of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists is testing the effectiveness of pesticides against mosquitoes, another group is learning how ...
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