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Smartphones more accurate, faster, cheaper for disease surveillance
Mar 20, 2012 (SPX)
Smartphones are showing promise in disease surveillance in the developing world. The Kenya Ministry of Health, along with researchers in Kenya for the Centers f...
Device invented to rapidly detect infectious disease
Mar 19, 2012 (SPX)
Infectious diseases can spread very rapidly, so quickly identifying them can be crucial to stopping an epidemic. However, current testing for such diseases can ...
Post-exposure antibody treatment protects primates from Ebola, Marburg viruses
Mar 16, 2012 (SPX)
Army scientists have demonstrated, for the first time, that antibody-based therapies can successfully protect monkeys from the deadly Ebola and Marburg viruses....
Universal vaccines could finally allow for wide-scale flu prevention
Mar 16, 2012 (SPX)
An emerging class of long-lasting flu vaccines could do more than just save people the trouble of an annual flu shot. Princeton University-based researchers hav...
Russia HIV infections rise 5% in 2011: official
Mar 12, 2012 (AFP)
Russia in 2011 saw a rise of five percent in the number of new HIV infections to 62,000 cases amid worrying signs that heterosexuals and women are increasingly ...
New light shed on cause of lung injury in severe flu
Mar 09, 2012 (SPX)
While some scientists report engineering a super virulent strain of the H5N1 influenza virus, which could potentially wipe out a significant percentage of the h...
HIV infection rates lower in high treatment areas: study
Mar 08, 2012 (AFP)
A new study shows that people living in areas where uptake of HIV treatment is high are less likely to acquire the virus than in places where few are given care...
Small US trial looks at body's ability to fight HIV
Mar 07, 2012 (AFP)
A new approach to coaxing the body to fight HIV without antiretroviral drugs has shown some success in almost half the patients enrolled in a small study, US re...
Cuba to test new AIDS vaccine on humans
Mar 05, 2012 (AFP)
Cuba's top biotech teams have successfully tested a new AIDS vaccine on mice, and are ready to soon begin human testing, a leading researcher told a biotechnolo...
Taiwan official quits over 'bird flu cover-up'
Mar 04, 2012 (AFP)
A top Taiwan agriculture official stepped down Sunday amid allegations he covered up bird flu outbreaks, a day after authorities said they had culled thousands ...
Collaboration shields AIDS patients from tuberculosis: UN
Mar 02, 2012 (AFP)
Some 910,000 lives have been saved so far under a six-year-old policy of cooperation between AIDS and tuberculosis health services, the World Health Organisatio...
Mugabe admits 'comrades' have died of AIDS
Mar 01, 2012 (AFP)
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe admitted Thursday that some of his political allies have died of AIDS, as he launched a programme urging parliamentarians to le...
Divides emerge in US, world response to mutant flu
Feb 29, 2012 (AFP)
A divide has emerged between the United States and the rest of the world on whether to publish or keep secret the details of an engineered mutant bird flu virus...
H5N1 flu is just as dangerous as feared
Feb 28, 2012 (SPX)
The debate about the potential severity of an outbreak of airborne H5N1 influenza in humans needs to move on from speculation and focus instead on how we can sa...
Evolution of staph 'superbug' traced between humans and food animals
Feb 27, 2012 (SPX)
A strain of the potentially deadly antibiotic-resistant bacterium known as MRSA has jumped from food animals to humans, according to a new study involving two N...
Indonesia reports fourth bird flu death of the year
Feb 25, 2012 (AFP)
A 12-year-old boy on the Indonesian resort island of Bali has died from bird flu, the fourth human death from the virus this year, an official said Saturday. Th...
Bird flu cases more common than thought: study
Feb 23, 2012 (AFP)
Bird flu is believed to be a rare disease that kills more than half of the people it infects, but a US study out Thursday suggests it may be more common and les...
Two-thirds of Myanmar HIV patients untreated: MSF
Feb 22, 2012 (AFP)
International funding cuts threaten to deepen an HIV crisis in Myanmar, where tens of thousands of people are denied lifesaving treatment, an aid agency said We...
Bird flu claims third victim this year in Indonesia
Feb 21, 2012 (AFP)
Tests on a 19-year-old woman who died last week showed she had contracted the bird flu virus, Indonesia's third human death from the deadly disease this year, t...
Go-ahead for bird flu study publication after security check
Feb 18, 2012 (AFP)
Bird flu experts meeting in Geneva on Friday ruled that controversial research on a mutant form of the virus potentially capable of being spread among humans sh...
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