Tweet AFP - Another person suffering from a SARS-like virus has died in Saudi Arabia, the World Health Organization said Thursday, bringing the worldwide number of fatalities from the mystery illness to seven. The Saudi health ministry had informed the UN’s health body that the patient had been hospitalised on January 29 and had died on [...]
Tweet Completely incurable gonorrhea may be at hand! Article
Tweet by Kimberly Paxton A cancer cluster is defined as a geographic area with a statistically higher than average occurrence of cancer among its residents. Would you consider the occurrence of cancer in nearly half of a population to be a high occurrence? The President’s Cancer Panel, a three-person panel that reports to the U.S. president on the [...]
Tweet MIT researchers have analysed which airport hubs would be key to spreading a virulent disease, with some surprising results World map shows flight routes from the 40 largest US airports. Image: Christos Nicolaides/Juanes Research Group When the next outbreak of Sars or Swine flu hits, New York’s John F Kennedy airport and Los Angeles’s airports will likely be [...]
Tweet A Dutch scientist performing U.S.-backed biodefense research was able to modify an avian flu strain into a more virulent version of the lethal virus, eliciting concerns that the findings could be misappropriated for acts of biological terrorism, Radio Netherlands Worldwide reported on Friday. The U.S. National Institutes of Health requested that Rotterdam-based molecular virology [...]
Tweet A cholera pandemic that has swept poor countries in three waves over nearly four decades has been traced to a bacterial strain that first emerged in Bangladesh, scientists reported on Wednesday. The current pandemic is the seventh since cholera, a water- and food-borne diarrhoeal disease caused by the Vibrio cholerae bug, emerged nearly two [...]
Tweet 2 June 2011 – Cases of haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) and enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) continue to rise in Germany. Ten countries have now reported cases to WHO/Europe. As of 31 May 2011, nine patients in Germany have died of HUS, and six of EHEC. One person in Sweden has also died. There are [...]
Tweet By MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON – A gene that can turn many types of bacteria into deadly superbugs was found in about a quarter of water samples taken from drinking supplies and puddles on the streets of New Delhi, according to a new study. Experts say it’s the latest proof that the [...]
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