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China culls thousands of pigs as African swine fever spreads
Aug 22, 2018 (AFP)
Beijing reported its first case of the disease in early August, and since then the virus has spread to pigs in several cities across China, requiring authoritie...
China sacks six more officials over vaccine scandal
Aug 18, 2018 (AFP)
The government has been struggling to shore up public confidence in the pharmaceutical sector following the revelation last month that a major Chinese manufactu...
China sacks regional officials as vaccine scandal mounts
Aug 17, 2018 (AFP)
The government has been struggling to shore up public confidence in the pharmaceutical sector following the revelation last month that a major Chinese manufactu...
Senior official sacked as China's vaccine scandal mounts
Aug 16, 2018 (AFP)
The government has been struggling to shore up public confidence in the pharmaceutical sector following the revelation last month that a major Chinese manufactu...
China reports first African swine fever outbreak
Aug 03, 2018 (AFP)
The notification on the OIE website said the outbreak in Shenyang, the capital of the northeastern Liaoning province, began on Wednesday and was ongoing. Africa...
India bans vaccine imports from tainted China company
Aug 01, 2018 (AFP)
"The vaccine is being used in India, but we don't have the exact details of the total number of units imported or where they have been distributed," S. Eswara R...
India recalls vaccines made by tainted China firm
Aug 01, 2018 (AFP)
S. Eswara Reddy, the drug controller general, told AFP that it has also put a temporary stop on fresh imports of the vaccine made by Changchun Changsheng after ...
Chinese parents stage rare public protest over vaccine scare
Jul 30, 2018 (AFP)
Video clips of the daring demonstration in front of the ministry were widely circulated on Twitter and other social media on Monday, showing the protesters hold...
China launches nationwide vaccine sector inspection after scandal
Jul 26, 2018 (AFP)
The State Drug Administration (SDA) said in an announcement issued late Wednesday that it had dispatched inspection teams "to thoroughly investigate the whole p...
Surge for kids' vaccines in Hong Kong after China scandal
Jul 24, 2018 (AFP)
The crisis stemmed from falsified production data of a rabies inoculation by a major mainland manufacturer. But vaccines against diphtheria, tetanus and whoopin...
Chinese president calls latest pharma scare vile
Jul 23, 2018 (AFP)
Xi, on a trip to Africa, echoed the calls from Premier Li Keqiang for a thorough investigation and stern action over the latest safety scare to hit the pharmace...
Censors jump into action as China's latest vaccine scandal ignites
Jul 22, 2018 (AFP)
Regulators said last week that they had halted production of a rabies vaccine at a large pharmaceutical company in the northeast after finding fabricated record...
Help NASA Track and Predict Mosquito-Borne Disease Outbreaks
Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)
One of the tools researchers are using to track these mosquitos is citizen science data combining with NASA Earth satellite observations to create new forecast ...
Spot a rat? Real-time map aims to plot Paris sightings
Jun 11, 2018 (AFP)
Geoffroy Boulard, who heads the municipal council of the 17th Arrondissement, has set up an interactive map where residents can signal rodent sightings in real ...
US fears of 'mystery weapon' revived by new China diplomat cases
Jun 09, 2018 (AFP)
Staff who fell ill after hearing strange sounds are being examined by doctors at a consulate in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, with several evacuated t...
Dialing up the body's defenses against public health threats
May 30, 2018 (SPX)
However, these intrinsic responses are not always quick, robust, or appropriate enough to adequately defend us from harm, which is why many people experience su...
Limiting global warming could avoid millions of dengue fever cases
May 29, 2018 (SPX)
A new report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reveals that limiting warming to the goal of the UN Paris Agreement would a...
Deadly malaria's evolution revealed
May 25, 2018 (SPX)
The results, published 21 May in Nature Microbiology provide estimated dates at which branches in the evolutionary tree for the Laverania family of malaria para...
Could we predict the next Ebola outbreak by tracking the migratory patterns of bats?
May 25, 2018 (SPX)
The team's approach works by tracking the migratory patterns of bats, which are believed to be a main carrier of the Ebola virus. Bats, in this instance, are th...
New portable malaria screening instrument developed
May 24, 2018 (SPX)
There are two standard ways of diagnosing malaria - yet both have limitations. The first involves taking a blood sample from a person and looking at it undernea...
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