Communicable in Biological News

Seventy-three scientists elected to the American Academy of Microbiology

... Klar, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD David M. Knipe, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA Hendrik J. Koornhof, National Institute for communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa Douglas E. Koshland, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, D.C. ...

Shades of 1918? New study compares avian flu with a notorious killer from the past

... to understand the disease," Baskin stresses. "That's why I think this type of pathogenesis study is so important." Although H5N1 is not readily communicable between humans, it has nevertheless killed over 400 people to date as a result of human-avian interactions, primarily in Vietnam, Thailand, China, ...

Avian flu becoming more resistant to antiviral drugs, says University of Colorado study

... Pakistan, the Middle East, Africa and Europe by various carriers, including poultry and migratory waterfowl, Hill said. While H5N1 is not highly communicable to humans from birds or between humans, experts are concerned future evolution of this subtype or other subtypes, or genetic re-assortment between ...

World leaders in infectious diseases convene to discuss emerging global viruses

... Global Fund. December 8th: "The Hunt for the Reservoir Hosts of Marburg and Ebola Viruses" presented by Robert Swanepoel, National Institute for communicable Diseases. ...

Excavated Jericho bones may help Israeli-Palestinian-German team combat tuberculosis

... in the Fertile Crescent region about 9-10,000 years ago. Jericho is one of the earliest towns on earth, dating back to 9,000 B.C., and so a lot of communicable - or town - diseases would have had a good start in this community. By examining human and animal bones from this site, the researchers will be ...

Scientists test device to track medication adherence in patients with HIV/AIDS

... volunteers breath using a small detector. The scientists say their device could also be used to monitor medication adherence in patients with other communicable diseases, such as tuberculosis. It is encouraging that the biological and chemical elements of the adherence system work as predicted. We were ...

$22 million gift from Alfred Taubman launches new biomedical research institute

... cancer cells commit suicide in the most common form of solid-tumor cancers in children. Dr. Castle is also chair of the Department of Pediatrics and communicable Diseases, and the Ravitz Foundation Professor of Pediatrics. Eva Feldman, M.D., Ph.D., a neurologist and scientist whose laboratory has already ...

Pattern of human Ebola outbreaks linked to wildlife and climate

... of Health Sciences in Libreville, Gabon and with Robert Swanepoel, the director of the Special Pathogens Branch of the National Institute of communicable Diseases in Sandringham, South Africa. Swanepoel tested for antibodies to the Ebola virus in more than one-thousand human blood samples that had ...

NHGRI announces latest sequencing targets

... as dermatophytes, which are the most common sources of human fungal disease, will also have their genomes sequenced. Dermatophyte fungi are highly communicable and infect millions of people worldwide leading to costs of approximately $400 million a year for treatment alone. The dermatophytes to be sequenced ...

Wild birds help to create human flu vaccine

... the State Central Veterinary Laboratory, Ministry of Food and Agriculture Veterinary Department, and the Mongolian Ministry of Health Center for communicable Diseases with Natural Foci - searched for birds from the Gobi Desert to the northern mountain lakes of the country and collected samples from ...

WCS says avian flu prevention should focus on farms, markets

... the State Central Veterinary Laboratory, Ministry of Food and Agriculture Veterinary Department, and the Ministry of Health Mongolian Center of communicable Diseases with Natural Foci. "The Mongolian governmental agencies working on this are to be commended for keeping the international community ...

Bird samples from Mongolia confirmed as H5N1 avian flu

... the State Central Veterinary Laboratory, Ministry of Food and Agriculture Veterinary Department, and the Ministry of Health Mongolian Center of communicable Diseases with Natural Foci--collected samples from hundreds of wild birds, both live and dead including, ruddy shelduck, herring gull, black-headed ...

Major breakthrough in the treatment of cancers and infectious diseases

... develop methods to increase NK cell activity. In this light, the discovery of Dr. Veillette's team opens new avenues for the treatment of cancers and communicable diseases. ...

New Estimates For The Causes Of Child Deaths Worldwide

... and ongoing studies in 2000 to 2003 to obtain new estimates for mortality by cause in children younger than age 5 years. They found the four communicable disease categories account more than half (54%) of all child deaths. Infection of the blood or pneumonia in newborn babies and pneumonia in older ...

Researchers develop rapid diagnostic tool for pathogen identification

... Inc, and Operon Inc. Application of the technology is already being evaluated through collaborative relationships with the National Institute for communicable Diseases, South Africa , the University of Hong Kong , SAR, the Robert Koch-Institute, Germany , and the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical ...

Measuring the impact of post-genomics on Mediterranean populations

... programme: its past, present and future. Round table discussions were organised later that day on how the EU-MPC co-operation is working to alleviate communicable and non-communicable diseases in the region. ...

New imaging method gives early indication if brain cancer therapy is effective, U-M study shows

... of radiology; Stephen Gebarski, M.D., professor of radiology; Patricia Robertson, M.D., associate professor of neurology and of pediatrics and communicable diseases; Larry Junck, M.D., professor of neurology; and Alnawaz Rehemtulla, Ph.D., associate professor of environmental health sciences, radiation ...