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Pneumonic plague Might Be Responsible For The epidemic In Congo - WHO

...vince is reported to be the worst hit area, by the plague in the world, with 19 deaths having been reported ...re have been reports of suspected cases of bubonic plague but the total number is not yet known. Team of doctors from the ‘Doctors without Borders’, the WHO...

Make Medicines Affordable: Jamir Urges Pharma Companies

...ield of medicine and surgery, some diseases still plague humankind which pose a challenge to the pharmaceutical industry. However, advancement in the field of bio-technology and molecular biology has paved the way for researchers to develop drugs with specific properties, adding that research would f...

Pneumonic Plague Kills 22 People in Congo

Pneumonic plague is a respiratory disease and is endemic to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where sporadic outbreaks are known to occur//. If the disease is not diagnosed at an initial stage then proves to be fatal to the patient. If diagnosed at an early st...

Flood-ravaged Surat Issues Epidemic Warning

...se. Desai, however, ruled out the possibility of plague in the city. "Tests have not revealed any plague symptoms so far. Serum samples collected from the patients have been sent to the New Delhi-based Nat...

Viral Epidemic In Gujarat

...e (HPS) had led to panic in Surat due to rumors of plague spreading across the city, but officials said that there was no plague scare in the city. The administration has been put on alert following the deaths caused by suspecte...

Leptospirosis Epidemic Overtakes Gujarat

...nt there although they have denied any outbreak of plague in any part of flood-ravaged Surat.// Quoting th...re carried out on the human and rodent samples for plague as well as for Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, also transmitted by rodents, had been found negative. ...

Songs Could Help to Overcome Flood Trauma

...er psychiatrist, has concentrated on problems that plague women in such circumstances. "Our data suggests that women are suffering from anxiety disorders. Body pain, sleeplessness and uneasiness are common complaints," said Mehta. Source-IANS...

U.S. Scientists Discover Better Vaccination Method

...ethod of vaccinating mice against infection by the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis//, with the details of their study published in October issues of the journal nature Immunology. Egil Lien and his colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Medical School have manipulated the bacterial coat of bacteria...

Efforts To Vanquish Skin Disease Among Infants

...riginal communities. Determined to oust this plague from their midst the the people in East Arnhem have joined hands with scholars from the Menzies School of Health Research (MSHR), to develop and integrate educative awareness programmes for their local aboriginal community workers , who in turn can...

Chemotherapy's Effects on the Brain

...the disrupted thought processes and confusion that plague many chemotherapy patients. "People with 'chemo brain' often can't focus, remember things or multitask the way they did before chemotherapy," explained Dr. Daniel Silverman, head of neuronuclear imaging and associate professor of molecular and med...

'Ire' of Irish Moms pained over maternity services in Ireland.

...ists which also aims at studying the pitfalls that plague today’s maternal health care system. ST...

Severe Cold is Harbinger of Infections

...good sunlight." However, the other diseases that plague children like jaundice, typhoid and gastroenteritis are lessas those viruses don't multiply in winter. According to P.K. Mukherjee, a senior private physician, a major reason for many people catching influenza is from exposure. "The virus spreads f...

Disabling Key Protein may Give Physicians Time to Treat Pneumonic Plague

...adly attack of the bacterium that causes pneumonic plague is significantly slowed when it can't make use of ...r of molecular microbiology. "That makes pneumonic plague a concern both because of its rare natural outbreaks, one of which began in the Congo in 2005, and b...

Scientists Find Potential Weakness In Plague Germ

The germ that caused the plague epidemic that ravaged medieval Europe has a weakne... There are periodic natural outbreaks of pneumonic plague like one that started in 2005 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There also is acute concern terro...

New Hope for Regenerative Medicine

...nd use sidesteps many of the ethical concerns that plague traditional ES cell therapies. However, uniparental ES cell research faces the biological hurdle of genomic imprinting, in which specific gene expression patterns are dictated by the parental origin. Uniparental cells only have the imprinting marks f...

Climate Change can Raise Incidence of Disease: Expert

... will increase incidence of diseases like malaria, plague and dengue//, said a United States expert at a dis... increase the prevalence of diseases like malaria, plague and dengue," said Daphne Wysham of the Institute of Policy Studies, USA, at the round table discussi...

New School of Public Health in Chennai

...crucial to India's growth. He recalled that when plague hit India in 1994, the country had to spend 1.4 billion US dollars, which was a colossal waste of resources. Pointing out that 1.5 billion people lived in South Asia, there were just four centers devoted to training people in public health. In the...

Drug-resistant Form of Plague Identified

...analyzed genetic sequences from the drug-resistant plague microbe and compared them with similar sequences f...ts who fear multiple drug-resistant strains of the plague may emerge in other countries, leading to highly dangerous pandemics, which spread rapidly. Another ...

New Chemistry Approach Promises Less Expensive Drugs

...hat can damage the body, two perennial issues that plague the manufacturing process. David MacMillan, one of the researchers on the team, said the discovery is important not only for its industrial applications, but also because of the new research possibilities it opens up. "This is a new type of chemist...

India’s Biotech Companies- Jumbos Waiting to Gro

...h into diseases like tuberculosis and malaria that plague the developing world, and which western companies aren't likely to focus on. India has the highest number of TB infections in the world with 1.8 million new cases each year, and nearly 350,000 Indians die of the disease annually. Malaria kills hund...

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