EPIDEMICS - INTERN DAILY

S. Leone, Liberia risk Ebola-like outbreaks from poor sanitation

Aug 09, 2016 (AFP)

Sierra Leone and Liberia risk new deadly epidemics akin to the impact of the Ebola virus due to lack of clean water and hygienic conditions in most homes, an NG...

US finds GMO mosquitoes won't harm environment

Aug 05, 2016 (AFP)

A type of genetically modified mosquito made by the British company Oxitec should pose no danger to the environment, US regulators said on Friday after consider...

21 infected in far north Russia anthrax outbreak

Aug 02, 2016 (AFP)

Russia on Tuesday confirmed 21 cases of anthrax, including one fatality, after an unusual heatwave melted permafrost in its remote far north, releasing potentia...

'Elephantiasis' virus may boost AIDS risk: study

Aug 02, 2016 (AFP)

People infected with a common parasitic worm may be twice as likely to acquire the HIV virus that causes AIDS, a field study from Tanzania reported Wednesday. T...

Boy dies, dozens hospitalised in far northern Russian anthrax outbreak

Aug 01, 2016 (AFP)

A 12-year-old boy has died in an anthrax outbreak in remote far northern Russia while dozens have been hospitalised on suspicion of infection, the region's gove...

Could the deadly mosquito-borne yellow fever virus cause a Zika-like epidemic in the Americas?

Jul 28, 2016 (SPX)

Yellow fever virus (YFV), a close relative of Zika virus and transmitted by the same type of mosquito, is the cause of an often-fatal viral hemorrhagic fever an...

Colombia declares its Zika epidemic over

Jul 25, 2016 (AFP)

Colombia declared Monday its Zika epidemic is over, but warned that the mosquito-borne virus, which is blamed for causing brain damage in babies, would continue...

Parasites hitch ride down Silk Road

Jul 21, 2016 (AFP)

Merchants plying the ancient Silk Road between China and the Mediterranean moved more than gold, fabrics, spices and tea -- they also exported gut parasites, re...

'Sugar daddies' and 'blessers': A threat to AIDS fight

Jul 21, 2016 (AFP)

Lebogang Motsumi, 27, still remembers the moment when she learnt she had contracted HIV from a man a decade her senior. "It was August 15, 2009, at 1:00pm," she...

Ecologists identify potential new sources of Ebola and other filoviruses

Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)

An international team of ecologists has identified the bat species with the greatest potential to harbor filoviruses - a family that includes Ebola virus. Writi...

HIV infections level off at 'worrying' 2.5 mn a year

Jul 19, 2016 (AFP)

Some 2.5 million people are still becoming infected with HIV every year even as drugs have slashed the death rate and patients live longer than ever, a global A...

Early HIV vaccine results lead to major trial: researchers

Jul 19, 2016 (AFP)

Promising results from an early safety trial with a potential HIV vaccine have paved the way for a major new study, researchers announced at the International A...

AIDS summit opens with warnings that progress at risk

Jul 18, 2016 (AFP)

More than 18,000 scientists, campaigners and donors opened a major AIDS conference in South Africa on Monday, issuing stark warnings that recent gains in the fi...

Amphibians may carry, spread infectious diseases

Jul 18, 2016 (UPI)

New research suggests wild amphibians may play a significant and underappreciated role in hosting and facilitating the spread of infectious diseases. Scientists...

AIDS summit in S.Africa to warn of lagging effort

Jul 16, 2016 (AFP)

Sixteen years after Nelson Mandela galvanised the world to take up the fight against AIDS, experts and activists return to the South African city of Durban on M...

Zika epidemic should fizzle out within 3 yrs: study

Jul 14, 2016 (AFP)

The outbreak of the mosquito-borne Zika virus, blamed for a surge in birth defects, has likely reached its peak in Latin America and the epidemic should be over...

Experts urge action against HIV prison 'incubators'

Jul 14, 2016 (AFP)

Public health experts called Friday for far-reaching measures against prison "incubators" of HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis. Inmates are much more likely to ca...

New insect imaging technique may help victims of sleeping sickness

Jul 14, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers from the IAEA Insect Pest Control Laboratory in Vienna, Austria have employed near infrared still photographs and time-lapse video to observe the pu...

Quest to end AIDS epidemic at risk: UN

Jul 12, 2016 (AFP)

Efforts to end the global AIDS pandemic by 2030 are lagging, the UN warned Tuesday, decrying rising numbers of new HIV infections among adults in many regions, ...

Scientists outline stategy for AIDS cure

Jul 11, 2016 (AFP)

Calling the AIDS epidemic "the most important global health challenge in modern history," more than 50 top scientists pressed their case Monday for a drive to s...