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China tells officials not to hide SARS damage

...an about it. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome has killed 300 people and infected nearly 5,300 in China, the worst-hit country in the world. //The bureau promised harsh punishment for statistics officials who provided fake data that could "mislead" policy-making. China, which joined an International Monetar...

China reports declining number of SARS Cases

...death and one// infection Monday. The epidemic has killed 267 people in Hong Kong and 1,726 patients are infected. Taiwan reported 15 new SARS cases Monday, but no new deaths. Seventy-two Taiwanese have died of the disease since March. The total number of cases is now 585. The Canadian city of Toronto is ba...

Russia Reports First SARS Case

...in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, has killed about 745 people and infected more than 8,200 around the world. The Russian case of severe acute respiratory syndrome was a blow to Hu's public relations campaign....

First global SARS meet opens

...t control strategies for a disease that has so far killed 799 people and infected 8,460. The meeting in Kuala Lumpur will also look to see whether SARS can be eradicated and try to raise coordination between countries //in case SARS recurs or there's an outbreak of other communicable diseases. The two-day m...

World SARS-free within weeks

...ls to humans in southern China late last year, has killed more than 800 people worldwide, infected some 8,500, trimmed economic growth forecasts and cost billions of dollars in lost businesses. Hong Kong and China, which were the most severely affected, were given the all-clear by WHO this month and Taiwa...

SARS-Free Taiwan to Mark End Phase of Global Fight

...evere Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which has killed some 800 people worldwide. At one time several Chinese provinces and the capital Beijing, Hong Kong, Toronto, Singapore, Vietnam's capital Hanoi, and the Philippine capital Manila were on WHO SARS lists. Authorities in Taiwan, where nearly 700 case...

Anthrax hammers immune system

...the months following the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five persons. //In those attacks, which remain unsolved, one of the first victims was sick for days before he was seen by doctors, who suspected a case of the flu. His white blood count, a sign of bacterial infection, was only slightly elevated. That...

AIDS vaccine falls short but shows some promise

...top the worldwide AIDS epidemic, which already has killed 20 million people and infected 40 million more. Until now, researchers have had nothing in the lab to use as an example of how to fight the virus that causes AIDS. If Researchers are able to isolate the mechanism that protected people from HIV, they...

Bowel diseases linked to bug in milk

...ent was seeking to find ways in which MAP might be killed by changes in pasteurisation. It believed precautionary action to reduce human exposure to MAP should start now and not depend on a link with disease in humans to be proved or disproved....

Return of SARS possible this fall

...wave infected more than 8,400 people worldwide and killed about 815, mostly in Asia, before subsiding in June. 2. SARS cases pop up sporadically but are detected before the disease can spread. 3. The disease gains a foothold in poor countries in Asia or Africa that lack adequate health care systems. In this...

Some pets found to be SARS carriers

The origin of the virus that killed 774 people remains unknown. Scientists believe people may have gotten the virus from animals that were infected by another source.// "You might want to quarantine the pets as well as the people," suggested Dr. Robert Shope, an expert on emerging di...

Aspirin usage linked with pancreatic cancer

...ican Heart Association says cardiovascular disease killed more than 945,000 Americans in 2000. Doctors do not clearly understand what causes pancreatic cancer, or what makes it so deadly. Obesity is another risk factor, but researchers findings were held regardless of a woman's weight, whether she smoked a...

Green Onions Blamed in Outbreak

...ennsylvania that infected more than 500 people and killed three.// Bill Zavertnik, Chi-Chi's chief operating officer, said in a statement that health officials confirmed that Chi-Chi's employees were not the source of the outbreak, that there was nothing they could have done to prevent the outbreak and tha...

Human Antibody That Can Block SARS

...ss that often progresses to pneumonia.// The virus killed nearly 800 people in a global outbreak last year. Researchers now say that they’ve discovered a human antibody that blocks infection caused by the SARS virus. Researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and elsewhere discovered an antibody -...

SARS vaccine shows promise in Animal Testing

...on humans an experimental SARS vaccine that uses a killed virus. The vaccine had been shown to be effective in animal testing....

Report on the Safety and Effectiveness of Melatonin supplements

...eep disorders, and that more than 1,500 people are killed and another 71,000 injured annually as a result. The evidence report was prepared by a team of researchers led by Terry Klassen, M.D., director of AHRQ's University of Alberta/Capital Evidence-based Practice Centre in Edmonton, and Chair of Pediatri...

Drop in Worldwide Measles deaths by 40%

...ood deaths. It was only a decade ago that measles killed millions of children every year and affected almost 30 million more, leaving many with life-long disabilities like blindness and brain damage. “We now have the opportunity to replicate this successful model as we tackle other child killers such as m...

Treating Latent Herpes With Licorice

...HIV and AIDS. Results of the study showed that GA killed the cells in which the latent virus was living by targeting key proteins involved in the latency. The treatment worked without causing toxic effects to the tissue. Though many new drugs are available to treat active herpes infections, but little trea...

Cure For Persistent Oral Fungal Problem May Be Possible

...entrations, when used with inhibitors, the peptide killed the fungal agents that cause very common infections like candidiasis and cryptococcosis. These can be an especially effective treatment for patients having immunity suppressing drugs, like those suffering from HIV-AIDS, Organ transplant patients and ...

Mouth Infection better handled with new discovery

...viduals or AIDS patients also should be able to be killed by histatins or drugs designed to target their potassium channels....

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