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Despite epidemic, Russia cracks down on HIV activists
Jul 07, 2016 (AFP)
Despite a rising HIV epidemic in Russia, officials appear to be clamping down on the few organisations trying to fight the spread of the virus. In recent weeks,...
Penn engineers develop $2 portable Zika test
Jul 07, 2016 (SPX)
University of Pennsylvania engineers have developed a rapid, low-cost genetic test for the Zika virus. The $2 testing device, about the size of a soda can, does...
E. coli: The ideal transport for next-gen vaccines?
Jul 06, 2016 (SPX)
Most people recoil at the thought of ingesting E. coli. But what if the E. coli: The ideal transport for next-gen vaccines?-grabbing bacteria could be used to f...
Haiti launches new AIDS testing, information campaign
Jun 25, 2016 (AFP)
Haiti's Ministry of Health and the United Nations launched a new anti-HIV/AIDS campaign Friday, providing information and rapid testing to help thwart the sprea...
Congo declares yellow fever epidemic
Jun 20, 2016 (AFP)
DR Congo on Monday declared a yellow fever outbreak in the capital Kinshasa, home to more than ten million people, and in two other western provinces. Health Mi...
UN fears polio surge in children from Iraq's Fallujah
Jun 17, 2016 (AFP)
The UN on Friday said it fears a surge in polio cases among children who have escaped from the jihadist bastion of Fallujah, and has launched a "massive" vaccin...
Predicting disease outbreaks using environmental changes
Jun 15, 2016 (SPX)
A model that predicts outbreaks of zoonotic diseases - those originating in livestock or wildlife such as Ebola and Zika - based on changes in climate, populati...
Predicting Contagiousness to Limit the Spread of Disease
Jun 15, 2016 (SPX)
Imagine the workplace during flu season. Some people get sick and display clear symptoms-a warning sign to coworkers to avoid contact and for that individual to...
Panama health minister resigns amid deadly swine flu outbreak
Jun 15, 2016 (AFP)
Panama's health minister resigned on Wednesday, the government said, amid a swine flu outbreak that has claimed 22 lives and sparked a panicked rush for vaccina...
New plant engineering technique could aid fight against malaria
Jun 14, 2016 (UPI)
Artemisinin is one of the most effective malaria drugs. To make it, producers must grow large amounts of an herb called Artemisia annua -- colloquially, sweet w...
Southern Europe risks Zika outbreaks this summer
Jun 13, 2016 (SPX)
Established Aedes-mosquito population could spread the Zika virus in Europe this summer if infected travelers introduce the virus. An analysis of temperatures, ...
West Africa marks end of deadly Ebola outbreak
Jun 09, 2016 (AFP)
Liberia said Thursday it was free of Ebola, meaning there are now no known cases in west Africa of the tropical virus that has left more than 11,300 people dead...
Too soon to release GM mosquitoes to fight Zika: US study
Jun 09, 2016 (AFP)
Releasing genetically-modified mosquitoes into the wild to fight malaria, Zika or other insect-borne diseases is premature and could have unintended consequence...
UN plan to end AIDS by 2030 faces Russian resistance
Jun 08, 2016 (AFP)
UN member-states agreed on Wednesday to fast-track their response to end the AIDS pandemic by 2030 despite a last-minute bid by Russia to dilute efforts to focu...
Hong Kong culls thousands of birds over avian flu scare
Jun 07, 2016 (AFP)
Hong Kong culled 4,500 birds on Tuesday after the deadly H7N9 bird flu virus was discovered in a chicken at a local market. Health officials in white hazmat sui...
LGBT groups defy UN decision to bar them from AIDS meet
Jun 07, 2016 (AFP)
Gay and transgender rights groups barred from a major UN AIDS conference opening Wednesday plan to defy the decision by joining other delegations at the meeting...
Study: New material kills E. coli bacteria in 30 seconds
Jun 06, 2016 (UPI)
Researchers in Singapore have created a new antimicrobial material capable of neutralizing E. coli bacteria in 30 seconds. They detailed their feat in a paper p...
More than 2,000 Indians contract HIV after transfusions
Jun 01, 2016 (AFP)
More than 2,000 Indians contracted HIV over a 17-month period after receiving blood transfusions, data from the national AIDS body showed Wednesday. In response...
Russian activists struggle to raise HIV awareness as epidemic grows
May 28, 2016 (AFP)
Vadim Pokrovsky stunned hundreds of students at a conference in Moscow last week when he reached into his pocket and took out a condom. "And you, the young gene...
A global early warning system for infectious diseases
May 24, 2016 (SPX)
In the recent issue of EMBO reports, Barbara Han of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and John Drake of the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology c...
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