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Bird flu claims second victim this year in VietnamHanoi (AFP) Feb 2, 2012 A woman in southern Vietnam has died after contracting the bird flu virus, health authorities said Thursday, in the country's second human death from the virulent disease in less than a month. Concerns about avian influenza have risen in the region with China, Cambodia and Indonesia all reporting deaths from the H5N1 virus this year. Vietnam has culled thousands of birds in affected areas in a bid to contain bird flu outbreaks. The 26-year-old woman from Soc Trang province in the Mekong delt ... read more |
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 Flu research redaction explained A U.S. biosecurity agency says it asked two scientific journals to censor the publication of research on a flu virus for safety reasons. ... more | .. |
 How New Viruses Evolve, and in Some Cases, Become Deadly In the current issue of Science, researchers at Michigan State University demonstrate how a new virus evolves, which sheds light on how easy it can be for diseases to gain dangerous mutations. ... more | .. |
 Tracking the birth of an evolutionary arms race between HIV-like viruses and primate genomes Using a combination of evolutionary biology and virology, scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have traced the birth of the ability of some HIV-related viruses to defeat a newly disc ... more | .. |
 Researchers Discover Method to Unravel Malaria's Genetic Secrets The parasite that causes malaria is a genetic outlier, which has prevented scientists from discovering the functions of most of its genes. Researchers at National Jewish Health and Yale University S ... more |
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 Troubled Global AIDS fund shifts focus ten years on Set up to roll back diseases that kill some four million people each year, the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria is shifting focus under new leadership even as it struggles to shake off corruption charges and keep its coffers full. ... more | .. |
 Doctors Without Borders slams lack of AIDS care in DR Congo Eighty-five percent of HIV-positive people in Democratic Republic of Congo have no access to AIDS treatment, while international funding has been cut, according to Doctors Without Borders. ... more | .. |
Global AIDS Fund head to quit The Global Fund to Fight AIDS announced on Tuesday that its head Michel Kazatchkine will quit but denied media reports that it was connected to his links with French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. ... more | .. |
 Bird flu claims second victim in China A man in southwest China who contracted the bird flu virus died on Sunday, health authorities said, the second human death from the virulent disease in the country in just under a month. ... more |
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AIDS kills 28,000 in China in 2011: report AIDS killed 28,000 people in China last year, and another 48,000 new infections from the HIV virus were discovered in the country, according to an official report on Saturday. ... more | .. |
Bird flu researchers agree to 60-day halt International scientists on Friday agreed to a temporary two-month halt to controversial research on a bird flu virus that may be easily passed among humans, citing global health concerns. ... more | .. |
Unveiling malaria's cloak of invisibility The discovery by researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of a molecule that is key to malaria's 'invisibility cloak' will help to better understand how the parasite causes disease and e ... more | .. |
Bird flu kills two in Cambodia, Vietnam Vietnam on Thursday reported its first human death from bird flu in nearly two years, as the virus also claimed the life of a toddler in Cambodia. ... more |
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 Anti-malaria drug synthesised with the help of oxygen and light The most effective anti-malaria drug can now be produced inexpensively and in large quantities. This means that it will be possible to provide medication for the 225 million malaria patients in deve ... more | .. |
 Counterfeit and substandard antimalaria drugs threaten crisis in Africa Hopes of at last controlling malaria in Africa could be dashed by the emergence of poor-quality and fraudulent antimalarial medicines, warn experts writing in 'Malaria Journal'. Unless urgent action ... more | .. |
 UN sees 'massive' fall in South Africa AIDS cases South Africa, home to the highest number of HIV cases in the world, should see a massive reduction by the end of the decade after a sea-change in government policy, a UNAIDS official said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Does the La Nina weather pattern lead to flu pandemics Worldwide pandemics of influenza caused widespread death and illness in 1918, 1957, 1968 and 2009. A new study examining weather patterns around the time of these pandemics finds that each of them w ... more |
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 New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a nearby star Capsule failure delays ISS crew mission U.K. study: Mars surface too dry for life Armadillo rocket flys high New Horizons Aims to Put Its Stamp on History NASA Receives Final NRC Report On Space Technology Roadmaps Scientists help define structure of exoplanets Russia to Start Own Search for Extrasolar Planets Eight more Galileo navsats agreed Space Radiation Blamed for Phobos-Grunt Crash Final Call to Register and Win Suborbital Research Flight Radio Doppler Tracking Continues at Cape York A dark spot on Mars - Syrtis Major Russia May Repeat Mars-500 Simulation on Space Station | .. |
 WHO lauds India's year without polio With a 'zero-polio' record in the last one year, India Friday carried its fight against the crippling disease to hospitals and health care centres across the country where parents brought their children for vaccination as the World Health Organisation lauded the country's achievement. ... more | .. |
 Balkan countries join forces to fight HIV/AIDS stigma Pressured to quit his job after telling his bosses he was HIV-positive, Boris Kovacic shares the plight of thousands in the Balkans who face prejudice because of a stubborn stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS. ... more | .. |
 Vietnam culls over 2,500 chickens in bird flu fight Vietnam has culled more than 2,500 chickens from a farm in the Mekong Delta area in an effort to contain a bird flu outbreak, officials said Thursday, amid heightened fears about the virus in the region. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong probes deadly bug at government offices Hong Kong officials said Wednesday the discovery of a bacteria that cause Legionnaires' disease at the new government complex was "under control", while it was probing the source of the deadly bug. ... more |
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Hong Kong government offices hit by deadly bug The bacteria that cause Legionnaires' disease have been found at several sites in the new Hong Kong government complex after one minister fell ill, in a major embarrassment for the authorities. ... more | .. |
China calls for calm after man dies from bird flu Health authorities in southern China are urging residents not to panic after a man who contracted the bird flu virus died at the weekend, the official Xinhua news agency said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Man dies from bird flu in southern China A bus driver in southern China who contracted the bird flu virus died Saturday, health authorities said, in the nation's first reported human case of the deadly disease in 18 months. ... more | .. |
Chinese man critical with bird flu A man is in critical condition after testing positive for the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, state media said Saturday. ... more |
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