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Mexico kills 2.5 million poultry to contain bird flu
Jul 10, 2012 (AFP)
Officials have slain 2.5 million birds at poultry farms in western Mexico over the past three weeks in an attempt to contain a bird flu outbreak, the agricultur...
Laws that criminalize gays hurt HIV treatment: study
Jul 09, 2012 (AFP)
Laws that criminalize gay behavior are among a host of legal tangles that waste resources and hinder an effective response to HIV/AIDS worldwide, an independent...
Record number of Africans get AIDS drugs: UNAIDS chief
Jul 06, 2012 (AFP)
A record number of Africans now have access to drugs to control the HIV virus, but the continent must work harder to strengthen the lifeline, the head of UNAIDS...
Discrimination fuels rise of HIV in Philippines
Jul 06, 2012 (AFP)
Discrimination against homosexuals and people infected with HIV is contributing to the rapid rise of the incurable disease in the Philippines, officials and hea...
Hong Kong closes bird market over H5N1 virus
Jul 05, 2012 (AFP)
Hong Kong on Thursday closed a popular tourist spot where hundreds of caged birds are on display after the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus was detected at one of th...
China reports bird flu outbreak
Jul 03, 2012 (AFP)
Authorities in China's remote northwestern region of Xinjiang have culled more than 150,000 chickens following an outbreak of bird flu, officials said. The outb...
Concern grows over H1N1 outbreak in Bolivia
Jul 03, 2012 (AFP)
An epidemic of H1N1 flu has infected almost 900 people and claimed 11 lives in Bolivia, health officials said Tuesday. Although most of the cases occurred in th...
US approves over-the-counter HIV home testing kit
Jul 03, 2012 (AFP)
The United States announced Tuesday it has authorized sales of the first over-the-counter home testing kit for HIV, the virus that leads to Acquired Immune Defi...
Mexico declares bird flu 'emergency'
Jul 02, 2012 (AFP)
The Mexican government declared a national animal health emergency on Monday in the face of an aggressive bird flu epidemic that has infected nearly 1.7 million...
Four-in-one AIDS drug gets the OK in clinical trial
Jun 29, 2012 (AFP)
An experimental once-daily pill that combines four drugs to fight HIV is as safe and effective as commonly-prescribed treatments against the AIDS virus, researc...
Sri Lanka troops join battle against dengue fever
Jun 29, 2012 (AFP)
Thousands of Sri Lankan troops Friday joined a massive clean up operation to eliminate mosquito-breeding grounds as part of a national effort to contain the den...
Swine flu likely claimed quarter of a million lives: study
Jun 26, 2012 (AFP)
The A(H1N1) "swine flu" 2009 pandemic probably claimed over a quarter of a million lives -- 15 times more than the 18,500 reported, a paper in The Lancet Infect...
Vatican calls for free AIDS treatment across Africa
Jun 22, 2012 (AFP)
A top Vatican official called Friday on the international community to provide "free and efficient treatment" for AIDS in Africa, starting with pregnant women, ...
US journal prints controversial bird flu research
Jun 21, 2012 (AFP)
The US journal Science published research Thursday on how a mutant bird flu may spread among mammals and possibly humans, following months of controversy over t...
Zimbabwe lawmakers get tested for HIV
Jun 21, 2012 (AFP)
Dozens of Zimbabwean lawmakers on Thursday underwent HIV tests at parliament, with many pledging to undergo circumcision the following day, at the start of a ne...
HIV may have returned in 'cured' patient: scientists
Jun 13, 2012 (AFP)
An American man whose HIV seemed to disappear after a blood marrow transplant for leukemia may be showing new hints of the disease, sparking debate over whether...
Mama Portia dishes out help for AIDS orphans
Jun 11, 2012 (AFP)
With woollen hats covering their heads from early morning chills, dozens of children troop into a courtyard for a bowl of hot cereal in South Africa's impoveris...
Revealed: Secret of HIV's natural born killers
Jun 10, 2012 (AFP)
Scientists on Sunday said they had found a key piece in the puzzle as to why a tiny minority of individuals infected with HIV have a natural ability to fight of...
New study shows why swine flu virus develops drug resistance
Jun 08, 2012 (SPX)
Computer chips of a type more commonly found in games consoles have been used by scientists at the University of Bristol to reveal how the flu virus resists ant...
50-year cholera mystery solved
Jun 07, 2012 (SPX)
For 50 years scientists have been unsure how the bacteria that gives humans cholera manages to resist one of our basic innate immune responses. That mystery has...
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