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Moving forward with controversial H5N1 research
Oct 10, 2012 (SPX)
Last winter, scientists at the University of Wisconsin and Erasmus University (Netherlands) shocked the world by announcing they had developed strains of H5N1 i...
'Brain-eating' amoeba kills 10 in Pakistan: officials
Oct 09, 2012 (AFP)
Authorities in Pakistan's largest city have launched an urgent investigation after a rare water-borne "brain-eating" amoeba killed 10 people in four months, off...
Canada high court lowers bar for HIV disclosure
Oct 05, 2012 (AFP)
Canada's Supreme Court on Friday decriminalized the non-disclosure of HIV status prior to sex where no realistic possibility of transmitting the potentially dea...
Chloroquine makes comeback to combat malaria
Oct 05, 2012 (SPX)
Malaria-drug monitoring over the past 30 years has shown that malaria parasites develop resistance to medicine, and the first signs of resistance to the newest ...
Two people die of cholera in Iraqi Kurdistan
Oct 02, 2012 (AFP)
Two people have died of cholera in Iraqi Kurdistan's Sulaimaniyah province in the second outbreak in five years, the autonomous region's health minister said on...
Saudi take steps to thwart epidemic at hajj: report
Oct 01, 2012 (AFP)
Saudi Arabia has taken measures to deal with any epidemic that may break out during the annual hajj pilgrimage, a minister said in remarks published Monday, str...
In Africa, deadly intestinal disease helped by AIDS: study
Sep 30, 2012 (AFP)
A deadly version of an intestinal germ has spread through sub-Saharan Africa, helped by genetic mutation and diseases such as HIV that weaken the immune system ...
Patients in Denmark not suffering from new virus: hospital
Sep 26, 2012 (AFP)
Five people in isolation in a Danish hospital are suffering from a typical influenza strain and not a new SARS-like respiratory illness as feared, the Odense Un...
New SARS-like mystery illness emerges in Mideast: WHO
Sep 24, 2012 (AFP)
The World Health Organisation issued a global alert on Monday for a new SARS-like respiratory virus which left a man from Qatar critically ill in a London hospi...
Swine flu vaccine linked to child narcolepsy: EU watchdog
Sep 21, 2012 (AFP)
A swine flu vaccine used in 2009-10 is linked to a higher risk of the sleeping disorder narcolepsy in children and teens in Sweden and Finland, the European Cen...
Elton John cites US discrimination of HIV inmates
Sep 17, 2012 (AFP)
The US states of Alabama and South Carolina discriminate against HIV-positive prisoners by separating them from others and excluding them from early release pro...
Cambodians fight malaria with the push of a button
Sep 17, 2012 (AFP)
Cambodian villagers armed with a little medical know-how -- and their mobile telephones -- are the nation's new foot soldiers in the fight against drug-resistan...
Precautions for Tick-Borne Disease Extend Beyond Lyme
Sep 14, 2012 (SPX)
This year's mild winter and early spring were a bonanza for tick populations in the eastern United States. Reports of tick-borne disease rose fast. While Lyme d...
Yosemite extends hantavirus alert to 230,000
Sep 14, 2012 (AFP)
California's Yosemite National Park has said that it has extended its hantavirus warning to 230,000 people after three people died from the rodent-borne disease...
Influenza research: Can dynamic mapping reveal clues about seasonality?
Sep 12, 2012 (SPX)
Influenza outbreaks in the United States typically begin with the arrival of cold weather and then spread in seasonal waves across geographic zones. But the que...
Zimbabwe HIV activist presses for medication for prisoners
Sep 10, 2012 (AFP)
An HIV-positive Zimbabwean man who was denied medication while detained on treason charges last year has launched a legal battle for prisoners to be allowed acc...
Harnessing anticancer drugs for the future fight against influenza
Sep 07, 2012 (SPX)
Medical Systems Virology group at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) at the University of Helsinki, together with its national and internationa...
Vietnam hit by new 'highly-toxic' bird flu: reports
Sep 07, 2012 (AFP)
A new highly-toxic strain of the potentially deadly bird flu virus has appeared in Vietnam and is spreading fast, according to state media reports. The strain a...
Third person dies from Yosemite park virus
Sep 06, 2012 (AFP)
A third victim has died from a rare rodent-borne virus contracted in Yosemite National Park, out of eight cases now confirmed with the disease, authorities at t...
Yosemite open despite virus that killed two
Sep 03, 2012 (AFP)
The deadly virus raising fears at California's Yosemite National Park does not spread easily, and, despite two recent deaths, does not warrant closing the park,...
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