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Tag: "pandemic" at medical news

Old flu drugs not effective against seasonal influenza

...d Relenza would only be helpful in treating severe pandemic diseases of bird flu in humans and would not have any effective against the seasonal influenza virus infection. The pharmaceutical manufacturers of Relenza and Tamiflu were not happy with the review results and has said that the results are not ve...

Turkey Gears Itself To Fight Bird Flu

...human being to another, which may well result in a pandemic across the world resulting in millions of causalities. The farmers whose birds have been culled are being paid compensation by the Turkish Government....

Large Scale Study On H5N1 Conducted

...5N1 virus is giving rise to fears of a large scale pandemic across the world. The mutation of the virus can have devastating effects on the human race. The Infectious Diseases department’s Robert G. Webster has revealed that the research has also served the purpose of providing an insight into its evolution, ...

Spread Of AIDS Is Reduced Greatly In Zimbabwe Due To Change In Behavior

...ced from 23% to 20.5%. AIDS has created a global pandemic infecting more than 40 million people. According to the United Nations (UN) survey it has killed more than 3 million people in 2005 and infected 5 million new patients. But recently the UNAIDS has noted a decline in the spread of AIDS in three sub-...

Connecticut Gears Itself For Pandemic

...ers, in addition to the East Haven Fire Chief if a pandemic influenza were to break out. // Officials belongin...an allocation of US$ 100 million for towards local pandemic preparedness, and similar summits are being held across the country. Preparations are also being ...

WHO Forecasts Bird Flu Pandemic Among Birds

...ily from person to person, triggering an influenza pandemic that could kill millions of people worldwide. Edited (IANS)...

Detecting Epidemics using statistics

...ce to monitor infectious disease outbreaks such as pandemic influenza and also to detect the risk of a particular population. Richard Platt and his research group plan to integrate these details of large studies into computer models and then test these models in a very complex health care scenario. This wil...

Tamiflu drug approved in Europe for children’

...l the countries with its drug Tamiflu to prevent a pandemic of bird flu infection. <br...

Bird Flu Appears In Nigeria

... Health (OIE). This has given rise to fears that a pandemic may start in Africa, // as this is the fist incidence of bird flu in the Continent. Preventive measures like disinfection and quarantining have already been initiated by the Nigerian authorities, with regard to animals and birds. The state of Kano...

The AIDS Pandemic May Orphan 18 Million African Children By 2010

...steps are not taken to restrict spread of the AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, it is predicted that more t...hose in southern Africa,' said Veneman. The AIDS pandemic is dangerous than what is foreseen at the moment. It has even been compared to global warming which ...

Vaccine For Bird Flu May Not Be Effective

...e wisdom of reliance on a single human vaccine for pandemic preparedness." The British government's other defence against the pandemic flu is the antiviral drug Tamiflu, of which it has ordered 14.6 million courses. A spokeswoman for t...

Bird Flu Could Claim 140 Million Lives: Report

The much-feared bird flu pandemic could claim as much as 140 million valuable lives,...mic Alexandra Sidorenko, estimate that even a mild pandemic could kill 1.4 million people and cost the global economy $330 billion in lost production. The rep...

Young People Not to Be Neglected In AIDS War

...ollars to help the developed countries manage AIDS pandemic more effectively. With respect to Thailand, the high AIDS infection rates in specific groups of population such as homosexuals, intravenous drug users, commercial sex workers and migrant workers represent a significant challenge, according to Pras...

60 Million People Would Die Due To NCD In India

...n this region in the next 10 years.' With such a pandemic threat lurking, Beaglehole said that WHO proposes a global goal - to reduce the projected trend of chronic disease death rates by two percent per year till 2015. 'This may prevent 36 million people from dying of these diseases in the next 10 years,...

Education, an Impetus to Combat HIV/AIDS

... happiness over the improvement in the rise of the pandemic in East AfricaThe United Nations team also had a meeting with Tanzanian President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete and the first lady . They discussed the Aids Issue with other representatives and paid a visit to the HIV infected people during their three day v...

Needle-Free Injection System Ideal for Pandemic Outbreaks

...in a unique situation especially should there be a pandemic as predicted by many. MIT has now received full certification granted under the International Organization forStandardization, as well as the Canadian Medical Device Conformity Assessment System, for devices to be licensed by HEALTH CANADA. These ce...

Bird Flu: Fear of the Unknown Could Put Financial Markets in a Soup

...uman type. Thankfully, it has not reached alarming pandemic proportions, to cause any upheaval to the economy. ...

H5N1 Bird-flu Confirmed in France

...mely virulent, which upon mutation can spark off a pandemic outbreak that can kill millions of people....

WHO Says Travelers Could Spread Avian Flu in NZ

...N1 bird flu in New Zealand. He doubted any human pandemic of the disease would begin in New Zealand and that...at can be easily passed between humans, sparking a pandemic in which millions could die. Omi said the vital factor to halt any pandemic would be early detecti...

Facts about Common Cold and Flu

... But the present scenario deals with the possible pandemic outbreak and how it can be dealt.// World Health O...ecommends that nations prepare for the threat of a pandemic situation by stockpiling anti-viral drugs. Oseltamivir and zanamivir are considered the first lin...

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