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Two treated for deadly pneumonic plague in Beijing
Nov 13, 2019 (AFP)
The two individuals were being treated at a central hospital in China's capital city -- home to over 21 million inhabitants -- on Tuesday, local authorities sai...
Melting Arctic ice accelerates spread of deadly virus in marine mammals
Nov 07, 2019 (UPI)
In 2002, the phocine distemper virus, or PDV, infected and killed thousands of harbor seals in the North Atlantic. Two years later, scientists identified the vi...
New transmission model for Ebola predicted Uganda cases
Nov 06, 2019 (SPX)
Caterina Scoglio, professor, and Mahbubul Riad, doctoral student, both in the Mike Wiegers Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Carl R. Ice ...
Patriot Express starts COVID-19 checks after new U.S. Forces Korea cases
Nov 02, 2019 (UPI)
Patriot Express is a U.S. government contractor providing worldwide service, mainly from the United States to Asia and Europe, to Armed Forces members and their...
Plague transmission rates increased from the Black Death to the Great Plague
Oct 19, 2019 (UPI)
In recent years, genomic analysis has offered scientists a variety of insights into the nature of bubonic plagues that decimated much of Europe and Asia during ...
Malaria could be felled by an Antarctic sea sponge
Sep 23, 2019 (SPX)
Some 219 million cases of malaria were reported worldwide in 2017, according to the World Health Organization, with 435,000 people having died from the disease ...
Russia says no threat after blast in lab holding smallpox
Sep 17, 2019 (AFP)
The blast happened Monday at "Vector", a state-run virus and biotechnology research centre that is one of only two locations in the world to hold the smallpox v...
NASA pioneers malaria-predicting tech in Myanmar
Sep 10, 2019 (AFP)
The goal of worldwide malaria eradication within a generation, by 2050, is "bold but attainable", a report released this week in The Lancet argued. Malaria case...
Humidity helps virus particles remain airborne, travel farther
Aug 18, 2019 (UPI)
When physicists at the University of Missouri used a new model to measure the influence of airflow and fluid flow on the movement of exhaled droplets, they foun...
In eastern DR Congo, influx of Ebola money is source of friction
Jul 18, 2019 (AFP)
On Wednesday, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the nearly year-old outbreak was a "public health emergency of international concern" -- a rarel...
Buzz off: breakthrough technique eradicates mosquitoes
Jul 17, 2019 (AFP)
The mosquitoes targeted are a type that is particularly difficult to control called Aedes albopictus -- more popularly known as the Asian tiger mosquito -- whic...
Avian malaria may explain decline of London's house sparrow
Jul 17, 2019 (UPI)
New tests showed avian malaria, a strain of malaria that only infects birds, is surprisingly common among groups of sparrows. Between 2006 and 2009, researchers...
Genomic analysis reveals details of first historically recorded plague pandemic
Jun 05, 2019 (UPI)
To better understand the early evolution of plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis, scientists isolated the deadly microbe from ancient human remains recovere...
Hong Kong to cull 4,700 pigs after second swine fever case found
Jun 01, 2019 (AFP)
The animal came from a farm in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong and importation from mainland China has been suspended until further notification, Sop...
Rocky mountain spotted fever risks examined
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
A binational team of researchers led by the University of California, Davis, has conducted the first comprehensive study to examine risk factors for the disease...
A Scent-Based Strategy for Preventing Mosquito Transmission of Disease
May 06, 2019 (SPX)
By modulating the interaction of skin-associated microbes with metabolites from the body, ReVector technologies might lower the incidence of mosquito feeding an...
Pakistan police arrest doctor after 90 infected by HIV syringe
May 03, 2019 (AFP)
"We have arrested a doctor after receiving complaints from the health authorities," said Kamran Nawaz, the local police chief heading the case in the southern c...
Mother detained after Chinese vaccine protest
Apr 17, 2019 (AFP)
According to police documents posted online by Li Xin, his wife He Fangmei is under "criminal detention" at the Xinxiang detention centre in central Henan provi...
Child vaccination levels falling short in large parts of Africa
Apr 15, 2019 (SPX)
Geographers from the University's WorldPop group found diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough (pertussis) vaccination levels in Nigeria, Democratic Republic of ...
Space-enabled mobile laboratory ready for medical emergencies
Apr 08, 2019 (ESA)
The Biological Light Fieldable Laboratory for Emergencies (B-LiFE) is designed to provide rapid identification of pathogens and to do so safely. B-LiFE teams su...
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