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Overwhelming evidence of malaria's existence 2,000 years ago
Dec 07, 2016 (SPX)
An analysis of 2,000-year-old human remains from several regions across the Italian peninsula has confirmed the presence of malaria during the Roman Empire, add...
Benin clinic battles mother-to-child HIV transmission
Dec 07, 2016 (AFP)
Pregnant with her fourth child in a clinic in Benin, Rosine is relieved to learn that she does not have AIDS, after a free test considered a national health pri...
Archaeologists find 14th century Black Death 'plague pit' in England
Dec 01, 2016 (UPI)
Archaeologists have discovered a rare "plague pit" in Lincolnshire. The mass grave contains 48 skeletons, just a few dozen of the thousands of Europeans claimed...
UN chief Ban apologizes to Haitian people over cholera epidemic
Dec 01, 2016 (AFP)
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday apologized for the first time to the people of Haiti for the role played by the world body's peacekeepers in sparki...
S.Africa launches major new trial of AIDS vaccine
Nov 30, 2016 (AFP)
South Africa on Wednesday launched a major clinical trial of an experimental vaccine against the AIDS virus, which scientists hope could be the "final nail in t...
One in seven with HIV in Europe unaware of infection: study
Nov 29, 2016 (AFP)
One in seven people with HIV in Europe is unaware of their infection, the EU and World Health Organization reported Tuesday as 2015 marked another record year f...
Almost half of HIV infections worldwide undetected: WHO
Nov 29, 2016 (AFP)
The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday that nearly half of all people with HIV around the globe do not know they are infected, and called for broader a...
Worrying traces of resistant bacteria in air
Nov 22, 2016 (SPX)
Polluted city air has now been identified as a possible means of transmission for resistant bacteria. Researchers in Gothenburg have shown that air samples from...
El Nino conditions in the Pacific precedes dengue fever epidemics
Nov 22, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers have found a strong association between El Nino-Southern Oscillation conditions in the Pacific to observed weather and dengue epidemics in Sri Lanka...
HIV treatment soars, but young African women suffer: UN
Nov 21, 2016 (AFP)
The number of HIV-infected people taking anti-retroviral medicine has doubled in just five years, the UN said Monday, while highlighting high infection rates am...
Rift Valley Fever epidemic kills at least 32 in Niger
Nov 17, 2016 (AFP)
At least 32 people have died since late August in an epidemic of Rift Valley fever in the western Niger region of Tahoua, the country's health ministry said Thu...
Netherlands steps up measures to fight bird flu
Nov 15, 2016 (AFP)
The Netherlands shuttered petting zoos and banned duck hunting as it stepped up measures Monday to stem a bird flu outbreak blamed for killing scores of poultry...
Ebola adapted to better infect humans during 2013-2016 epidemic
Nov 08, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers have identified mutations in Ebola virus that emerged during the 2013-2016 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa that increased the ability of the vir...
Not 'patient zero': the origins of US AIDS epidemic
Oct 26, 2016 (AFP)
A labelling error and reckless media hype in the 1980s led to unjustly branding a gay airline employee as "Patient Zero" in the US AIDS epidemic, scientific and...
Driving mosquito evolution to fight malaria
Oct 26, 2016 (SPX)
One of the frustrations of fighting malaria is that mosquitoes evolve resistance to the insecticides used to kill them. Now researchers from Exeter University i...
Tobacco plants engineered to manufacture high yields of malaria drug
Oct 24, 2016 (SPX)
In 2015, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded in part for the discovery of artemisinin, a plant-derived compound that's proven to be a lifesave...
A promising step toward controlling Zika virus and dengue fever
Oct 20, 2016 (SPX)
Five UCLA researchers were part of an international team that has used X-rays to reveal the structure of a molecule that is toxic to disease-carrying mosquitoes...
Indian capital's zoo closes over bird flu scare
Oct 19, 2016 (AFP)
New Delhi zoo has temporarily closed after two birds died of bird flu, its curator said Wednesday, a month after India declared itself free of the disease. Riaz...
Haiti sees 800 new cholera cases after hurricane
Oct 19, 2016 (AFP)
Haiti recorded nearly 800 cases of cholera the week after it was ravaged by Hurricane Matthew, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday, as health off...
Devils' milk could fight superbugs: Australia scientists
Oct 18, 2016 (AFP)
Mother's milk from the marsupials known as Tasmanian devils could help the global fight against increasingly deadly "superbugs" which resist antibiotics, Austra...
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