EPIDEMICS - INTERN DAILY

Oct 02, 2017 (SPX)

This test could offer an easy-to-use, cheap, and portable diagnostic in countries where Zika and Dengue are both prevalent and the gold-standard test that measu...

Scientists are successfully breeding disease-resistance into mosquitoes

Sep 29, 2017 (UPI)

But a recent breakthrough in the genetic modification could help breed disease-resistance into mosquito populations and eradicate malaria altogether. Malaria is...

UC research shows ticks are even tougher and nastier than you thought

Sep 26, 2017 (SPX)

Is your skin crawling yet? Researchers at the University of Cincinnati are examining the tick's defenses, looking for ways to prevent tick-borne illnesses such ...

A sixth of new HIV patients in Europe 50 or older: study

Sep 26, 2017 (AFP)

The older cohort was more likely to be diagnosed with advanced stages of HIV and AIDS compared to 15-49 year olds, and to contract the disease through heterosex...

Broad swath of US deemed environmentally suitable for mosquitoes that transmit disease

Sep 25, 2017 (SPX)

The new study, which analyzed existing county-level records of mosquito presence to model a more complete potential range, shows suitability for Ae. aegypti in ...

Carbohydrates may be the key to a better malaria vaccine

Sep 19, 2017 (SPX)

The discovery also suggests steps that may improve the only malaria vaccine approved to protect people against Plasmodium falciparum malaria - the most deadly f...

Using NASA Satellite Data to Predict Malaria Outbreaks

Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)

Containing malaria outbreaks is challenging because it is difficult to figure out where people are contracting the disease. As a result, resources such as insec...

Tick tock and the risk of tick-borne disease

Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)

While North Americans worry about Lyme disease carried by blacklegged or deer ticks, on the other side of the globe, people contend with a different variety of ...

New method for producing malaria treatment at large scales

Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)

The first-choice treatment for malaria is artemisinin - which is used in Chinese medicine to treat fever and inflammation as well as malaria. Before 2001, healt...

WHO sounds alarm over DRCongo cholera epidemic

Sep 09, 2017 (AFP)

The UN says cholera is a major public health problem in the country with millions of cases registered every year. Last year, the disease claimed 817 lives there...

New boarding procedures could limit spread of infectious inside airplane cabins

Sep 01, 2017 (UPI)

Computer models suggest revised boarding procedures and the use of smaller plane cabins could reduce the risk of infection during a serious disease outbreak. Ai...

Flooded Texas faces higher risk of disease, experts warn

Aug 28, 2017 (AFP)

Immediate risks from floods include death by drowning -- often people drown in their cars as they try to flee -- electrocution, and hypothermia. The long-term p...

Actress Charlize Theron dreams of AIDS-free S.Africa

Aug 18, 2017 (AFP)

The star who is the founder of Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project which supports community-based HIV programmes said the country's "ridiculously large" HIV...

Philippines declares first ever H5 bird flu outbreak

Aug 11, 2017 (AFP)

An immediate cull was ordered for all chicken, ducks and quail within a kilometre (0.6 miles) of the infected poultry in San Luis town, north of Manila, said Ag...

Magnetized viruses can break through biofilms, attack bacteria

Aug 02, 2017 (UPI)

Bacteriophages are viruses that seek out and infect bacteria. But in a solution, these viruses disperse and fail to attack harmful bacteria in significant numbe...

Malaria already endemic in the Mediterranean by the Roman period

Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)

Even today, Malaria is one of the greatest medical challenges worldwide, killing hundreds of thousands of people every year. In the past, people have adapted to...

Myanmar seeks WHO help with deadly swine flu outbreak

Jul 27, 2017 (AFP)

At least six people have died and 30 more have been infected over the past week, most of them in the country's biggest city Yangon, a senior health ministry off...

Love hotels targeted to fight HIV among Cameroon's teens

Jul 25, 2017 (AFP)

Cameroon, a country of 23 million that hugs Africa's Gulf of Guinea, has one of the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence rates in the world. "The maps highlight the high...

Scientists divulge latest in HIV prevention

Jul 25, 2017 (AFP)

Moving away from the message to "Abstain, Be faithful, Condomise", modern prevention strategies include drug-doused vaginal rings, male circumcision, and taking...

Injectable AIDS drug may work 'as well' as pills

Jul 24, 2017 (AFP)

At present people have no option but to take lifelong, daily doses of anti-retroviral therapy (ART) which keeps the HIV virus under control, but does not kill i...