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Dutch Customs Deploys Special Bird Flu Dogs

...checking flights from countries where the bird flu virus has been found such as China, Thailand, Egypt, Russia and Turkey, the Dutch ministry of finance, which controls the customs service, said in a statement. They are trained to sniff out all kinds of poultry -- alive or dead --, feathers and eggs. The...

A New Study Throws Limelight in HIV Vaccine Production

...stical research methods to investigate how the HIV virus mutates to escape the bodys immune system. A pio...ing collaborative study has discovered how the HIV virus evades the human bodys immune system. Specifically, HLA class 1 is a controlling part of the human i...

Eastern Equine Encephalitis Spreading Its Tentacles in Massachusetts

...ng the six fatalities within those 13 cases. The virus is still considered rare -- there have been fewer than 89 cases in the past 70 years -- but proves fatal to more than half of the people who are infected. As few as 10 to 20 percent of the people who contract EEE return to health, said DeMaria. A...

Awareness About Condoms Among Pakistani Punjabis is Very Low

...ch HIV/AIDS from the infected mother, and that the virus by the wounds of a HIV positive person could infect one. Quoting Akbar Babar, Team Leader of the survey, the Daily Times reported that contrary to the general perception, 75 percents of the respondents thought that extra marital sex was prevalent...

First Genetically Engineered Maize Resistant to Maize Streak Virus Produced in S. Africa

...e to the virus. They said the resistance to the virus requires multiple genes located on different chrom...tated a viral gene that encodes a protein that the virus needs to replicate itself and inserted it into maize plants. When the virus infects one of these tra...

Indonesia Confirms 81st Bird Flu Death

...ing the death toll in the country worst hit by the virus to 81, a health ministry official said Monday . Indonesia has seen its toll from the deadly H5N1 virus grow steadily since 2005 when the first confirmed human deaths occurred here. "A boy who died on J...

30 Dead as Dengue Fever Epidemic Hits Myanmar: Report

... 130 people died and 11,049 were infected with the virus last year. Dengue fever normally takes its greatest toll in Myanmar in the second half of the year, after the rainy season begins in June. The disease is especially dangerous in children and the elderly. Myanmar's health system has suffered from ...

Olive-pomace Oil Compound Inhibits HIV Spread

...from olive-pomace oil slows down the spread of HIV virus . Researchers from the University of Granada and Hospital Carlos III in Madrid, established that maslinic acid, found in wax from olive skin, inhibits serin-protease, the enzyme used by HIV to discharge itself from the infected cell into the extra ...

Foot-and-mouth Disease Outbreak Forces Thiruvananthapuram Zoo to Shut Down

... was confirmed last Friday that the foot-and-mouth virus -- strain 'O' had caused the death of animals. The zoo was being sanitized and visitors are being disallowed from entering the premises as a precaution. "We are applying chemicals in the field near the cages. We are also cleaning up the whole ...

Dengue Deaths in Cambodia This Year Exceed 2006 Toll

...4,029 cases and three deaths. The mosquito-borne virus is usually associated with poorer tropical countries. The disease leads to a sudden onset of fever with severe headaches, muscle and joint pains, and rashes....

Gays Who Dabble With Death

...the levels of 20 years ago is that contracting the virus is not the death sentence it once was and homosexuals are consequently less afraid of risking casual unprotected sex. A recent court case in Melbourne in which a 48-year-old was charged with deliberately infecting two men and trying to infect 14 o...

Understanding HIV Interference With Infected Cell Division

...s of drugs to combat HIV. Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) causes AIDS by depleting essential immune cells called CD4+T lymphocytes in infected individuals, resulting in a compromised immune system. At the center of this process is the HIV protein, viral protein R (Vpr), which stops infected C...

Modified Herpes Virus Keeps Arteries Free-flowing Following Procedures

...ecent years, genetically engineered herpes simplex virus studied for its efficacy against malignant tumors ... the artery. Rabbits exposed to the herpes simplex virus during angioplasty had minimal changes in the arteries. The smooth muscle cell proliferation which c...

'Sexually Active' Malawians Urged to Take HIV Tests

...f Malawians do not know that they are carrying the virus because they have not gone for a test, a situation that poses a great threat to prevention efforts," the statement said. Around 14 percent of Malawi's 12 million people are infected with HIV, according to official figures. Mtemwa Nyangulu, HIV te...

Vets To Team Up With Human Health Specialists

...ucidated her points with examples of the West Nile virus transmitted by mosquitoes, and the now well-known avian flu. She also included a more recent animal-human health interaction example where pet food contaminants that killed a small number of animals moved rapidly into the human food chain. Says H. ...

Tomato Fever Replaces Chikungunya in Kerala

...arlier affected by Chikungunya. Chikungunya is a virus which spreads through mosquito-bite and causes a non-fatal self-limiting illness, marked by high fever, headache, severe joint pain, rashes and nausea. Symptoms of tomato fever have been seen in around 2,800 people so far. The symptoms include toma...

Czech Authorities Kill 70,000 Birds at H5N1 Farms

...ge of Norin in the centre of the country where the virus was confirmed on Wednesday, he told AFP. The two farms are within an exclusion zone thrown up after the first cases of H5N1 were detected in domestic Czech poultry last month. "We are doing this preventively. It is a decision we have taken oursel...

Hepatitis Day of Reckoning for a Happening Virus

...dence of the HBV virus, experts have said that the virus is more common than the AIDS virus, and can easily...inal secretions, open wounds, and even tears. The virus is virulent, because it could cause a host of associated chronic illnesses, like Hepatocellular carc...

Diaphragms offer no extra protection Against HIV

... ended studies of a vaginal gel meant to block the virus after early results showed the women who used it had a slightly higher risk of becoming infected. A similar trial testing whether the contraceptive jelly nonoxynol-9 might work as an anti-HIV microbicide, failed in 2000, when the study revealed tha...

Efficacy of Lyme Disease Vaccination Examined

...HPV, few people know that the sexually transmitted virus can cause cervical cancer; consequently, few take steps to prevent it because they are unaware of the risk. As a result, there is no reason to expect to see disinhibition, Brewer said. Baruch Fischhoff, professor of social and decision sciences at ...

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