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Swine flu outbreak less severe than feared: studyWashington (AFP) Dec 8, 2009 The H1N1 flu outbreak appears to be less severe than earlier feared, according to a new study by US health experts who found fewer than expected hospitalizations or severe complications from the virus. The British and US-funded study by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), which appears online in the journal PLoS Medicine, said the swine flu pandemic appears far "milder ... read more |
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Tokyo (AFP) Nov 30, 2009Japan plans to send hundreds of military personnel to Sudan next year to join UN peace-keepers overseeing an agreement that ended a 21-year north-south civil war, a report said Monday. The government plans to send hundreds of army personnel to the UN Mission in Sudan to help build roads, transport goods and personnel by helicopter and provide medical aid, the Yomiuri Shimbun said without ... more  
Karbala, Iraq (AFP) Nov 25, 2009Two bombs within minutes of each other exploded at a restaurant early Wednesday in Iraq's shrine city of Karbala, wounding at least 26 people, police and medical officials said. The first bomb targeted diners inside the restaurant in the heart of the city, located 110 kilometres (69 miles) south of the capital Baghdad, around 9:00 am (0600 GMT), causing several injuries, police said. ... more  
Brazzaville (AFP) Nov 25, 2009An unidentified disease has killed three people and spread to more than 100 others in the southwest of the Republic of Congo, according to medical sources who suspect swine flu, the A(H1N1) virus. "Three people have lost their lives since the epidemic broke out" a few days ago, said a local medical source. "A little more than 100 others are being monitored in the hospital" at Londela Kayes ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Nov 20, 2009China has ordered more accurate reporting of swine flu fatalities after a doctor renowned for helping expose the scale of the 2003 SARS outbreak said deaths were being deliberately underplayed. The order issued late Thursday on the health ministry website appeared to acknowledge suspicions of under-reporting in the nationwide tally, which the government has put at 53 deaths out of nearly 70 ... more 
Austin TX (SPX) Nov 17, 2009For the fourth time this year, NASA's Shuttle fleet is carrying a series of experiments being conducted by Austin-based Astrogenetix, a commercial biotech company created to use microgravity to develop the foundation of new medicines. Payload on Space Shuttle Atlantis Flight STS-129 will consist of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) microbes in search of a target for a ther ... more  
Davis CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2009California experienced centuries-long droughts in the past 20,000 years that coincided with the thawing of ice caps in the Arctic, according to a new study by UC Davis doctoral student Jessica Oster and geology professor Isabel Montanez. The finding, which comes from analyzing stalagmites from Moaning Cavern in the central Sierra Nevada, was published in the journal Earth and Planetary Sci ... more |
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