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Cyclone-hit Mozambique fears cholera epidemic
Mar 29, 2019 (AFP)
Several dozen patients suspected of having cholera, an infection caused by bacteria, were grouped outside the hospital in the Macurungo neighbourhood according ...
Cholera cases rise to 139 as Mozambique prepares mass vaccinations
Mar 28, 2019 (AFP)
"The total number of cholera cases is now 139," government health officer Ussein Isse told AFP. President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday told a news conference author...
Cyclone-ravaged Mozambique reports five cholera cases
Mar 27, 2019 (AFP)
Cyclone Idai smashed into Mozambique on March 15, unleashing hurricane-force winds and heavy rains that flooded much of the centre of the poor southern African ...
Zika study may 'supercharge' vaccine research
Mar 19, 2019 (SPX)
The study, led by The University of Queensland and QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, used a new technique to uncover Zika mutations that help foster vi...
After IS, Mosul tackles another terror: super-resistant bacteria
Mar 07, 2019 (AFP)
Doctors around the globe are sounding the alarm over bacterial infections immune to modern medicine, but their prevalence in Mosul -- where thousands of patient...
Facebook launches offensive to combat misinformation on vaccines
Mar 07, 2019 (AFP)
The company has faced pressure in recent weeks to tackle the problem, amid outbreaks of measles around the United States attributed to growing numbers of parent...
Global maps enabling targeted interventions to reduce burden of mosquito-borne disease
Mar 06, 2019 (SPX)
The researchers have used 35 years of historic data, together with 17 of the highest-regarded and accepted climate change models to create a tool for public hea...
Electronic nose better at sniffing out disease-carrying dogs in Brazil
Mar 01, 2019 (UPI)
Dogs carry the parasite that causes the disease in humans. Sand flies can spread the disease from dogs to humans. Any dog found to carry the parasite must be pu...
2015-2016 El Nino Triggered Disease Outbreaks Across Globe
Mar 01, 2019 (SPX)
El Nino is an irregularly recurring climate pattern characterized by warmer than usual ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific, which creates a ripple effe...
A new layer of medical preparedness to combat emerging infectious disease
Feb 20, 2019 (SPX)
Through studies in secure laboratories and simulated natural environments, the PREEMPT researchers will model how viruses might evolve within animal populations...
China measles Study has implications for worldwide epidemic control
Feb 18, 2019 (SPX)
Using a new model-inference system developed at the Columbia Mailman School, the researchers were able to estimate population susceptibility and demographical c...
Chinese food producer says swine fever found in dumplings
Feb 18, 2019 (AFP)
China, the world's biggest consumer and producer of pork, has struggled to contain an outbreak of the virus since the first cases were detected last August. Off...
Study shows hope for fighting disease known as Ebola of frogs
Feb 18, 2019 (SPX)
That's the finding of a new study published this week in the journal Immunogenetics. Anna Savage, an assistant professor of biology at the University of Central...
Tourists at upmarket Chinese ski resort hit by novovirus
Feb 13, 2019 (AFP)
French luxury holiday group Club Med expressed its regret, saying it took the outbreak -- which saw guests suffer from vomiting and diarrhoea -- "very seriously...
Mosquitoes that carry malaria may have been doing so 100 million years ago
Feb 12, 2019 (SPX)
"Mosquitoes could have been vectoring malaria at that time, but it's still an open question," said the study's corresponding author, George Poinar Jr. of Oregon...
Protecting those on the frontline from Ebola
Feb 04, 2019 (SPX)
The U.S. had to learn this the hard way. In 2014, a patient harboring Ebola returned home to Dallas, Texas from Liberia. Within 15 days of this person's arrival...
China disciplines 80 officials linked to major vaccine scandal
Feb 02, 2019 (AFP)
Changchun Changsheng Biotechnology -- a major Chinese manufacturer of rabies vaccines -- was slapped with a $1.3 billion fine in October after it was found to h...
Researchers develop new approach for vanquishing superbugs
Feb 01, 2019 (SPX)
This new research provides an approach clinicians could consult when deciding which antibiotic treatment courses will be most effective for patients. The method...
Hong Kong scientists claim 'broad-spectrum' antiviral breakthrough
Jan 15, 2019 (AFP)
A team from the University of Hong Kong described the newly discovered chemical as "highly potent in interrupting the life cycle of diverse viruses" in a study ...
Danish malaria vaccine passes test in humans
Jan 11, 2019 (SPX)
Now they have come a significant step closer to being able to introduce such a vaccine in the market. In a new study published in the scientific journal Clinica...
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