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Hundreds of Chinese students hospitalised for norovirus: Xinhua
May 18, 2017 (AFP)
Some 381 students at the No. 2 Experimental School in the city of Fuyu in Jilin province were taken to hospital after suffering vomiting, diarrhoea and fever, a...
Can crab shells provide a 'green' solution to malaria?
May 16, 2017 (SPX)
Mosquitoes carry diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, the Zika virus and encephalitis. Despite more than 100 years of research on the subject, ...
Mosquito-borne viruses like Zika may be spread at lower temperatures
May 11, 2017 (SPX)
The study, led by Stanford University and published in the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, found that transmission of dengue, chikungunya and Zika is ...
10-year lifespan gain for some HIV patients: study
May 10, 2017 (AFP)
In fact, a 20-year-old who began treatment any time since 2008, now has an expected lifespan, about 78 years, approaching that of an uninfected person, said a s...
Stanford researchers analyze what a warming planet means for mosquito-borne diseases
May 04, 2017 (SPX)
Now, in a paper published on April 27 in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Stanford researchers modeled how rising temperatures might influence mosquito behavio...
Suspected meningitis epidemic kills 745 in Nigeria
Apr 19, 2017 (AFP)
"We need all hands on deck," said Chikwe Ihekweazu, head of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) as the federal government announced the latest toll fr...
Diarrhoea kills more than 500 in Somalia since January: UN
Apr 13, 2017 (AFP)
The UN's health agency said the epidemic had left more than 25,000 people sick, warning that number was likely to double by the end of June. WHO put the number ...
A big-picture look at the world's worst Ebola epidemic
Apr 13, 2017 (SPX)
Published in the journal Nature, the analysis found that the epidemic unfolded in small, overlapping outbreaks with surprisingly few infected travelers sparking...
Viral fossils reveal how our ancestors may have eliminated an ancient infection
Apr 13, 2017 (SPX)
Retroviruses, which include human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), are abundant in nature. Unlike other viruses, which do not usually leave a physical trace of the...
Transgenic plants against malaria
Mar 29, 2017 (SPX)
Since the ancient times, mankind has used plants to treat diseases. An example is the plant Artemisia annua, used for over 2,000 years in traditional Chinese me...
Scientists image one of the largest viruses on the planet
Mar 28, 2017 (UPI)
In order to image one of the world's largest viruses, the Samba virus, scientists at Michigan State had to design and build their own microscope. Researchers re...
UN body urges China to act as bird flu deaths spike
Mar 17, 2017 (AFP)
The UN's food agency on Friday urged China to step up efforts to contain and eliminate a strain of bird flu which has killed scores of people this year. The Foo...
Scientists zoom in on AIDS virus hideout
Mar 15, 2017 (AFP)
French scientists said Wednesday they had found a way to pinpoint elusive white blood cells which provide a hideout for the AIDS virus in people taking anti-HIV...
Paris's overworked rat-catchers on strike
Mar 14, 2017 (AFP)
Paris's overworked rat-catchers staged a one-day strike Tuesday, protesting outside city hall to demand reinforcements and bonuses two months after carrying out...
700 dead as malaria 'epidemic' hits Burundi
Mar 14, 2017 (AFP)
About 700 people have died from malaria in Burundi so far this year, the health minister said, with the authorities having registered 1.8 million infections in ...
Paris mayor to spend 1.5 million euros for 'war on rats'
Mar 12, 2017 (AFP)
The mayor of Paris said Sunday the city would spend 1.5 million euros ($1.6 million) to rid the French capital of rats and install more public ashtrays to clean...
More mosquito species than previously thought may transmit Zika
Mar 01, 2017 (SPX)
Zika virus could be transmitted by more mosquito species than those currently known, according to a new predictive model created by ecologists at the University...
Flu meds do not harm unborn babies: study
Feb 28, 2017 (AFP)
Unborn children suffer no harm when their mothers take flu medication during pregnancy, a study of some 700,000 women said Wednesday. It was the largest study e...
First drug-resistant malaria parasite detected in Africa
Feb 22, 2017 (AFP)
For the first time in Africa, researchers said Wednesday they have detected a malaria parasite that is partially resistant to the top anti-malaria drug, artemis...
Bird-flu deaths rise in China, shutting poultry markets
Feb 16, 2017 (AFP)
China is experiencing its deadliest outbreak of the H7N9 bird-flu strain since it first appeared in humans in 2013, killing 79 people in January alone and spurr...
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