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Anthrax Claims Two Lives in Orissa

..., Koraput and Rayagada where tribals often consume infected meat. Over 200 cattle and five people lost their lives to anthrax between 1994 and 2006. In 1998, as many as 43 cattle died in Niali area of Cuttack district due to the deadly disease. "Though 18 of the 30 districts in Orissa have been identified...

China Reports Bird Flu Infection in Military

...stry said. Tests on May 18 suggested that he was infected with H5N1 bird flu, and national government and mi...the central province of Hunan. H5N1 bird flu had infected 307 people, including 186 who died, in 12 mainly Asian and African nations by May 24, according to W...

Antibiotics Highly Effective for Treating Lyme Disease

... affects the nervous system in 10 to 15 percent of infected patients. "While other guidelines exist to help diagnose and treat general Lyme disease, there continues to be considerable controversy and uncertainty about the best approach to treating neuroborreliosis, in which Lyme disease involves the nervous...

Persons With HIV and Alcohol Problems Co-infected With Hepatitis C

...l of Public Health (BUSPH) have found that persons infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), who ...t management. An estimated 15 to 30 percent of HIV infected persons in the United States and Europe are co-infected with HCV. According to previous research, al...

Vaccine Hope for Malaria

...model for human malaria. Mice do not get sick when infected with the blood-borne parasite that causes malaria in people. And the immune system of mice shows a different response to humans when it comes into contact with the parasite. This meant that despite making a promising antibody vaccine that worked a...

Why Malaria Parasite Affects Red Blood Cells Deformability Revealed

...e deformability remained normal in red blood cells infected by parasites without RESA during the first 24 hours of infection, while in parasites where RESA was turned back on after being knocked out, it was affected in a manner as though the protein was never knocked out. "That the deformability changed sev...

Cultural Bias Against Women Hampering Fight Against AIDS in Africa

...r women's rights. Almost 25 million Africans are infected with the HIV virus, giving the continent the worst AIDS burden in the world. Women make up 75 percent of HIV-positive Africans aged between 15-25. The PHR study concentrated on the two African countries with the highest HIV prevalence rates -- Swaz...

Blood from Bird Flu Survivors Provides Breakthrough in Treatment of H5N1

... blood of bird flu survivors have helped cure mice infected with the dreaded H5N1 bird flu virus. Scientist... virus. Then came the real tests: Subbarao's lab infected mice with H5N1. Some were given the antibodies before they were exposed, others after they already w...

MRSA, the Super Bug Spreading to Urban Poor in US

...fection often begins with a little cut, which gets infected with bacteria. These staph infections range from a simple boil to antibiotic-resistant infections to flesh-eating infections. The difference between all these is how deep and how fast the infection spreads, and how treatable it is with antibiotics....

Ostracized HIV-affected Widow Turns to Begging

... AIDS is transmitted even if one interacts with an infected person. Abandoned by her in-laws, a villager sai...d stopped their own children from playing with her infected son," Parida told IANS. She also became an object of disdain at her own parents' house at Nagaspur...

American Who Exposed Air Passengers to Drug Resistant TB Quarantined

...ested for the infection, the officials said. The infected man may have exposed other travelers to a strain o...ved still isn't known, Gerberding said. The man is infected with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, or XDR-TB, which renders patients virtually untreatabl...

Malaria and HIV Jointly Affects Pregnant Women and Their Infants

...or of the study. PAM occurs when red blood cells infected with malaria parasites congregate in the placenta resulting in harm to both mother and the budding baby. First-time mothers are predominantly prone to PAM whereas women in subsequent pregnancies become protected against PAM. But HIV virus leads to th...

Mutant Parasites, Unable to Infect Hosts, Highlight Virulence Genes

...m improperly cooked meat or by handling feces from infected cats. Pregnant women and people with weakened immune systems are at greatest risk from Toxoplasma infection, which can cause brain damage and death in unborn children and immune-compromised patients, such as AIDS patients. Despite this, little is k...

IDRI and Chembio to Develop Tests for Leishmaniasis and Leprosy

...transmitted by droplets from the nose and mouth of infected persons. The stigma attached to leprosy has often caused those who contract the disease to be shunned by family, friends, and society. Approximately 1.6 billion people worldwide are exposed to leprosy, which is endemic in 24 countries. Approximatel...

New TB Vaccines in Could Protect Against All Drug Resistant Strains

...tion (CDC) quarantined a patient in Atlanta who is infected with XDR, and who had been traveling on transatlan...nd is the leading cause of death among individuals infected with HIV. TB takes a victim every 20 seconds, which adds up to more than 1.5 million people every ye...

Indonesian Teenager Dies of Bird Flu

...eaten by the victim," Nadirin said. Contact with infected birds is the most common form of transmission of the deadly virus to humans, experts say. "She became the 79th victim to die," the doctor said. The virus is widespread among birds in the vast archipelago nation where poultry and humans live in cl...

New Drugs Hold Hope for HIV Patients

... the AIDS virus, thus giving hope for chronically infected patients. The study was conducted by a team of researchers including Hiroyu Hatano, and Steven Deeks at San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, USA. The three new drugs are the HIV integrase inhibitors, R5 inhibitors, and etravir...

Orissa Under Anthrax Threat

...airly uncommon disease while many people have been infected by the virus, health officials said Friday. Bisu Sisa, 45 and Nanda Jani, 35, of Koraput district, nearly 500 km from state capital Bhubaneswar, reportedly showed signs of infection after consuming cattle meat and died last week, Chief District Med...

American Who Set Off TB Scare Apologizes, Lung Surgery an Option for Him

...ding up the possibility of surgically removing the infected tissue from his lung. "I've lived in this state ...nfection, he may have to undergo surgery to remove infected lung tissue, about the size of a tennis ball. Surgery to remove pieces of the lung was more common...

New Strains of TB Can Be Used as a Powerful Bioterror Weapon

...lars spent on national security in airports, a man infected with XDR (extensively drug resistant) tuberculosis...a coordinated, intentional attack by bioterrorists infected with the disease landing in population centers across the country would bring. 'The disease is com...

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