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Beijing confirms first virus deaths: report Beijing (AFP) May 14, 2008 
China on Wednesday confirmed the first two deaths in Beijing from hand, foot and mouth disease, bringing the national death toll to 42 children, state media reported, citing health officials. One child from Beijing, host of this year's Olympics, died on Sunday, Xinhua news agency said citing city health department spokeswoman Deng Xiaohong. Another child from Hebei also died in the ... read more |
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UN warns of 'second catastrophe' in Myanmar
Yangon (AFP) May 14, 2008The United Nations warned Tuesday that Myanmar faced a "second catastrophe" after its devastating cyclone, unless the junta immediately allows massive air and sea deliveries of aid. But Myanmar's military rulers again rejected growing international pressure to open the door to a foreign-run relief effort, insisting against all the evidence that they could handle the emergency alone. ... more Bacteria epidemic at Madrid hospital claimed 18 lives: report 
Madrid (AFP) May 11, 2008At least 18 people died in a bacteria epidemic that infected more than 250 patients over a period of 20 months at one of Madrid's main hospitals, a report said Sunday. The deaths at the 12th October University Hospital were caused by Acinetobacter baumannii, a highly virulent hospital-acquired infection that has strains that are resistant to most drugs, El Pais daily reported. The situat ... more China virus death toll hits 30 as number of infections soars 
Beijing (AFP) May 8, 2008The number of children confirmed to have died as a result of a highly contagious virus in China rose to 30 on Thursday as the number of infections soared by the thousands, state media said. Two children in the southern island province of Hainan died of hand, foot and mouth disease, boosting the grim total, Xinhua news agency reported. Xinhua did not say when the deaths occurred but it ap ... more China urges authorities to step up education of deadly disease 
Beijing (AFP) May 7, 2008China on Wednesday urged local health authorities to step up public education of a highly contagious disease that has led to the deaths of 28 children. Despite the numbers of infections surging by thousands more, the Health Ministry and the World Health Organisation insisted there was little cause for alarm, saying the disease would have no impact on the Beijing Olympics. Hand, foot and ... more Doctors punished in China for mishandling deadly virus outbreak: Xinhua 
Beijing (AFP) May 6, 2008Ten doctors and officials in China have been punished for mishandling a virus that has killed 26 children, state media reported as the number of infected youngsters rose to more than 12,000. The punishments have been meted out in the eastern province of Anhui, where most of the deaths have occurred and local officials have been accused of being too slow to report the disease, Xinhua news age ... more |
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London, UK (SPX) May 05, 2008Bacteria that cause the bubonic plague may be more virulent than their close relatives because of a single genetic mutation, according to research published in the May issue of the journal Microbiology. "The plague bacterium Yersinia pestis needs calcium in order to grow at body temperature. When there is no calcium available, it produces a large amount of an amino acid called aspartic ... more China Warns Deadly Intestinal Virus Could Kill More
Beijing (AFP) April 30, 2008The Chinese government on Wednesday warned that a lethal intestinal virus that killed 20 children in east China could cause more deaths. The virus, known as Enterovirus 71, or EV71, has already killed 20 children in Fuyang city in Anhui province, and has infected 1,884 kids, the state-controlled Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday. "We estimate that the hand, foot and mouth disease ... more West, Central Africa seen as major source of next new disease 
Paris (AFP) April 30, 2008West and Central Africa are emerging as the major potential sources for the next new infectious disease, a study released on Wednesday said. Deforestation in these regions is forcing wild animals that are a natural host for pathogens into ever smaller areas and into ever likelier contact with fast-growing human populations, it said. The paper, published in the British journal Proceedings ... more Chinese officials accused of covering up killer virus 
Beijing (AFP) April 29, 2008Local authorities in eastern China tried to cover up an outbreak of a highly contagious virus that has killed 20 children and left more than 1,500 others ill, Chinese press reports said Tuesday. The China Youth Daily, the official organ of the Communist Youth League, compared the situation in Anhui province to the cover-up by Chinese officials of the SARS crisis in 2003. "SARS has alread ... more International Health Experts To Enlist The Public In War On African Malaria 
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Apr 24, 2008Philanthropy just got easier and a lot more accessible to the public thanks to the social networking power of the Internet and a ground-breaking partnership between a young British entrepreneur, a global health think tank and an African medical research institute. Debuted April 20 to offer individuals a meaningful way to mark World Malaria Day (Friday, April 25), its creators hope ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) April 7, 2008An outbreak of bird flu has occurred at a poultry farm in restive Tibet, resulting in the deaths of at least 268 fowl, China's Ministry of Agriculture said Monday. Tests on dead birds at the farm in the village of Zhuba in Qamdo county revealed the virus was the deadly H5N1 strain, according to an announcement on the ministry's website. The outbreak was reported to authorities last Friday ... more Alligator Blood And Mud Help Fight Superbugs 
New Orleans LO (SPX) Apr 07, 2008Despite their reputation for deadly attacks on humans and pets, alligators are wiggling their way toward a new role as potential lifesavers in medicine, biochemists in Louisiana reported today at the 235th national meeting of the American Chemical Society. They described how proteins in gator blood may provide a source of powerful new antibiotics to help fight infections associated with ... more Community-Acquired MRSA Spreads
London, UK (SPX) Apr 02, 2008Drug resistant hospital superbugs like MRSA have been kept under control in Denmark for more than 30 years. But the latest reports say that in the last 10 years MRSA cases have risen 10 times as new strains of bacteria with resistance genes spread through the community, scientists heard at the Society for General Microbiology's 162nd meeting being held this week at ... more Climate And Cholera 
London, UK (SPX) Apr 02, 2008Cholera outbreaks may soon be predicted using satellite sensors, paving the way for preemptive medicine in countries that suffer epidemics, says Distinguished University Professor Rita Colwell, speaking at the Society for General Microbiology's 162nd meeting being held this week at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. The cholera Vibrio lives in ... more AIDS May Partly Be The Consequence Of An Evolutionary Accident 
London, UK (SPX) Apr 01, 2008AIDS, a fatal disease in humans, may partly be the consequence of an evolutionary accident, scientists heard today at the Society for General Microbiology's 162nd meeting being held this week at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. "AIDS is a deadly disease in people that is caused by human immunodeficiency virus. But similar viruses such as simian immunodeficiency virus ... more
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