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Bird Flu in Afghanistan

...ministry. The lethal H5N1 virus was found in the eastern province of Nangarhar. Though initially a human case was suspected, later it was diagnosed as the case of malaria. The Nangarhar area has been quarantined and all the necessary precautions are being followed. Culling of birds was initiated earlier ...

Women Will Be Paid to Donate Eggs for Science

...ld still be enough of an inducement for women from eastern Europe, for example, to come to Britain to sell their eggs. That's clearly turning eggs into an object of trade and that's disturbing. Once the principle of egg donation for research is established, it will become harder to prohibit paid egg donation...

Hand-foot-mouth Disease Scare Causes Temporary Shut Down of Malaysian Preschools

...umpur - Three Malaysian preschools situated in the eastern Sarawak state of Borneo have been asked to close for a 2 week period, following a hand//, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) scare, state officials said. Denying any major outbreak of the disease, state deputy chief minister, George Chan, said, ‘Let m...

RVF Outbreak Kills 148 in Kenya

... now spread to the east African country's central, eastern and Rift Valley provinces. Kenya has recorded 108 new human infections since last week. The disease, which is transmitted to humans through mosquito bites or frequent contact with contaminated animals, causes victims to abort, vomit blood or blee...

Kenya: Alert As Virus Leaps Over Buffer Zone

...ed to East Africa. The fever is generally found in eastern and southern Africa, mainly among livestock keeping communities. The most notable outbreak in Kenya was in 1950-1951, which resulted in the death of an estimated 100,000 sheep. Exported from Sudan In 1977, the virus was detected in Egypt, but it w...

Outbreak of New Dengue Strain Feared in Malaysia

A rise in the number of dengue cases in eastern Malaysia has raised fears of an outbreak of a new strain of the viral disease that has affected dozens of children//. A possible outbreak of dengue fever has been detected in Kuantan in Pahang state with at least two-dozen cases reported so far this ...

Mosquito-borne Dengue Disease on the Rise in Five Malaysian States

...e state of Negeri Sembilan, from 20 to 26, and the eastern Sabah state on Borneo island, from nine to 12. Ramlee said the first week of the year recorded a total of 1,155 suspected dengue cases, an increase of five cases from the week before. A total of 60 health officials have been deployed in the aff...

Tree Bark Compound Could Prevent Malaria

... by scientists from bark collected in Madagascar's eastern rain forest, reported science portal SciDev Net. Madagascar is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, off the southeastern coast of Africa. It is the fourth largest island in the world and is home to five percent of the world's plant and animal spe...

Where Burnt Out Executives De-stress in Nature's Lap

... de-stress themselves, virtually on the lap of the eastern Himalayas. And the Potasali Eco Camp, located near the 200 sq km Nameri National Park, about 220 km north from here, is one of the hotspots for these behavioural anti-stress approaches. "This is a new thing for us to find teams of company executive...

Come Apart and Rest Awhile – It’s Christma!

...ning star made its appearance inexplicably, on the eastern sky. The light emanating from the star was the guiding light for the three wise men, known as ‘the magi’, to take them to their destination - the new born Jesus Christ. The wise men were also astrologers, so when they made the calculations it was evi...

Celebrating Christmas With Wine – The Elixir of the God

...cer. A study of 34,000 middle-aged men living in eastern France conducted by Dr. Serge Renaud concluded that two to three glasses of wine a day had tremendous benefit on the heart and also prevented cancers. It helped the community to live longer; this is despite the fact that the studied population were c...

Mystery Fever Kills 35 Children in UP

...viral encephalitis killed at least 400 children in eastern Uttar Pradesh earlier this year, a mysterious but fatal virus is prowling the region claiming children as victims. 'The killer virus is still at large so we are actually at a loss as to how we should tackle it,' said K.P. Kushwaha, a paediatrician ...

Poverty Fuels HIV In Poor Indian States

..., told Reporters in Patna, the capital of Bihar in eastern India. He adds how much he regrets visiting prostitutes while he was away from his home working in another state. Srivastava is one of the millions of poor Indians who migrate to other places in search of work, get infected with HIV from prostitute...

US NGO to Counsel HIV/AIDS Patients in Assam

...ting centres in Assam's main city of Guwahati, the eastern town of Dibrugarh and the southern city of Silchar. India's National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) and AHF recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), one of the first such deals with any overseas NGO, to assist the country's 'antiretr...

Medicinal Plant Rediscovered After 115 Years

...anner in the state's Namdapha National Park in the eastern Changlang district. 'Actually we found the plant first in 2004 and again during another visit in October 2005 in the two places. But it takes time for verification and hence it took a long time to publicize the rediscovery,' Ambarish said. The t...

Tomatoes: Culprits of Salmonella outbreak

...ep 1 with most of the affected states being in the eastern half of the nation. According to Carlota Medus, PhD, an epidemiologist with the Minnesota Department of Health in St. Paul, samples from 14 patients in Minnesota matched the outbreak strain on pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Minnesota case...

Older Women make good mothers!

... caesarean section, after a fertility treatment in eastern Europe. She was condemned by several pressure groups. Anne Steiner from the University of North Carolina, and Richard Paulson from the University of Southern California, carried out investigations determinining parental stress and the mental and p...

Bird flu Alert in Kenya after Outbreak in Southern Sudan

...t have already brought the deadly H5N1 strain from eastern Europe are flying to the region and beyond to escape the northern hemisphere winter. In April Sudan reported outbreaks of bird flu in Khartoum and Jazeera provinces in the north. Although Sudanese government officials said that they had eradicated ...

Understanding Sleeping Sickness

...ei rhodesiense (T.b. rhodesiense), in southern and eastern African countries. The infection it induces takes effect after a few weeks. More virulent than the chronic form, its development cycle is also more rapid and, consequently, clinical detection can be made earlier. However, it is increasingly recogni...

Highest Obesity Rates in Britain!

...y was found in the town of Boston in Lincolnshire, eastern England. According to the report, there is a rise of 40% in the proportion of obese children between 1995 and 2004. Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s campaign caused obesity to be brought in the political agenda in England last year for better school ...

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