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Scientists question the designation of some emerging diseases
Nov 20, 2012 (SPX)
The Ebola, Marburg and Lassa viruses are commonly referred to as emerging diseases, but leading scientists say these life-threatening viruses have been around f...
UN hails sharp decline in HIV infections in kids
Nov 20, 2012 (AFP)
Twenty-five countries, many in hard-hit Africa, have at least halved new HIV infections in the past decade, with particular progress made toward protecting chil...
Air transmission of Ebola virus a concern
Nov 16, 2012 (UPI)
Experiments have shown the deadliest form of the Ebola virus could be transmitted by air between species, Canadian researchers are reporting. Scientists from th...
Italy lifts ban on Novartis flu vaccines
Nov 09, 2012 (AFP)
Italian health authorities on Friday lifted a ban on the sale of flu vaccines made by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis, saying that tests had shown they were...
Switzerland lifts ban on Novartis flu vaccine
Oct 31, 2012 (AFP)
Switzerland's national drug agency announced Wednesday it was lifting a ban on sales of flu vaccines made by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis after documenti...
New opportunity for rapid treatment of malaria
Oct 31, 2012 (SPX)
Malaria causes up to 3 million deaths each year, predominantly afflicting vulnerable people such as children under five and pregnant women, in tropical regions ...
Test allows doctors to see disease without microscope
Oct 28, 2012 (AFP)
Scientists in Britain say they have developed a super-sensitive test using nano-particles to spot markers for cancer or the AIDS virus in human blood serum usin...
Plants provide accurate low-cost alternative for diagnosis of West Nile Virus
Oct 26, 2012 (SPX)
While the United States has largely been spared the scourge of mosquito-borne diseases endemic to the developing world-including yellow fever, malaria and dengu...
Migratory birds' ticks can spread viral haemorrhagic fever
Oct 26, 2012 (SPX)
A type of haemorrhagic fever (Crimean-Congo) that is prevalent in Africa, Asia, and the Balkans has begun to spread to new areas in southern Europe. Now Swedish...
Novartis flu vaccine ban extends to Germany
Oct 25, 2012 (AFP)
Germany became the fourth country Thursday to ban sales of flu vaccines made by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis, following embargoes by Italy, Switzerland a...
Mexico overcomes bird flu outbreak
Oct 24, 2012 (AFP)
Mexico declared Wednesday that it has overcome a bird flu outbreak in the west of the country that had triggered the slaughter of 22 million hens since June. "W...
Italy bans use of three Novartis flu vaccines
Oct 24, 2012 (AFP)
The Italian health ministry said on Wednesday it has banned the sale and use of several flu vaccines produced by Swiss drugs group Novartis pending tests into p...
Italy, Switzerland, Austria freeze sales of Novartis flu vaccines
Oct 24, 2012 (AFP)
Italian, Swiss and Austrian authorities on Wednesday halted the sale of flu vaccines made by Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis. The Italian health ministry sa...
Concern as HIV cases rise 8% in Australia
Oct 17, 2012 (AFP)
Research on Wednesday showed HIV infections in Australia jumped eight percent last year and 50 percent in the past decade, which health activists said was a "ca...
New HIV prevention technology shows promise
Oct 17, 2012 (SPX)
CONRAD researchers, in collaboration with engineers at the University of Utah, have designed a 90-day intravaginal ring that can be used by women to prevent the...
Ebola antibody treatment, produced in plants, protects monkeys from lethal disease
Oct 16, 2012 (SPX)
A new Ebola virus study resulting from a widespread scientific collaboration has shown promising preliminary results, preventing disease in infected nonhuman pr...
Cholera 'under control' in Iraqi Kurdistan: minister
Oct 14, 2012 (AFP)
Authorities in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region said on Sunday that a fresh outbreak of cholera that left four people dead, the second in five years, has been b...
International groups urge Francophone nations to fight AIDS
Oct 12, 2012 (AFP)
About 50 non-governmental organisations on Friday urged the French-speaking nations holding a summit in Kinshasa at the weekend to "make concrete commitments" t...
Glowing DNA invention points towards high speed disease detection
Oct 10, 2012 (SPX)
Many diseases, including cancers, leave genetic clues in the body just as criminals leave DNA at the scene of a crime. But tools to detect the DNA-like sickness...
Mosquito genetics may offer clues to malaria control
Oct 10, 2012 (SPX)
An African mosquito species with a deadly capacity to transmit malaria has a perplexing evolutionary history, according to discovery by researchers at the Frali...
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