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Chikungunya Spreads as Funds Remain Unspent

...orted cases in India. Chikungunya is caused by a virus spread by the Aedes Egyptis mosquito that breeds in stagnant water. Maharashtra is another state that took little interest in spending the allocated money, with Pondicherry following suit. Maharashtra is yet to spend Rs. 18.5 million of the allotte...

Bird Flu Found in Togo

...o, a town on the border with Togo. Worldwide, the virus has killed 191 people out of 313 infected patients... fear the death toll would multiply rapidly if the virus were to mutate and become easily transmitted between humans. A flu pandemic in 1918, just after the...

Dengue Fever Deaths Up in Vietnam

...sian countries have also seen surging cases of the virus that causes flu-like symptoms, aching joints and f...ovided good breeding grounds for mosquitos." The virus thrives in urban areas because the carrier, the aedes mosquito, breeds in stagnant water, including ...

Human Vaccine for Herpes Virus on the Anvil

...both infection and development of disease when the virus is present by completely disarming the viruss abil...ve found an Achilles heel in the defences that the virus uses to evade the immune system, said Spector. The virus has evolved to persist in the host by eva...

Ancient Ancestors Might Have Had a Clue to HIV

...t ancestors won the battle against the now extinct virus 4 million years ago but it left the human species...odies in chimpanzee faeces have suggested that the virus jumped into humans from a Cameroonian population of chimps early in the last century. A separate gro...

Egyptian Boy Has Bird Flu

...fever on Thursday. He became the 37th case of the virus reported in Egypt since the first outbreak was ann...a. Women and children have borne the brunt of the virus due to their role in taking care of domestic fowl. The government says it is conducting a vigorous ...

Six Cases of H5N1 Bird Flu Confirmed in Germany

...for humans. The dead wild birds infected with the virus were found at two lakes near Nuremberg in the past...1 avian flu could be related to an outbreak of the virus in the Czech Republic. H5N1 was found on a poultry farm in the central Czech Republic last week, pr...

Adenoviruses Could Help Kick Drinking

A single injection of a type of virus known as adenoviruses can help give up the habit of drinking, a study indicates. Researchers have found that rats bred to crave alcohol were found to drink 50 percent less for more than a month after being injected with engineered adenoviruses. M...

Theory of How HIV Attacks is Wrong: Study

...them off -- by causing infected T cells to produce virus particles before dying. This ongoing cycle of in...explanation for the slow process could be that the virus slowly adapts over the course of the infection, the authors said. "The virus is constantly mutatin...

Toll Free National Drug Helpline Launched

...ns with social-justice. A society plagued with the virus of drugs can have no opportunity appropriate enough to think about the welfare of the poor and the needy. Thus, drug is not just a psycho-social-medical issue alone. It is a more fundamental issue....

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Initiates Patient Enrollment In New Cotara(R) Brain Cancer Trial

...bodies for the treatment of cancer and hepatitis C virus infection, today announced initiation of a new clinical trial designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of its tumor necrosis therapy (TNT) agent Cotara(R) in patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), a deadly form of brain cancer. In pilot ...

Germany Confirms Second Bird Flu Outbreak

...burg, near Liepzig, second incidence of the feared virus in a week, the Friedrich Loeffler Institute report...many has only recorded one incidence of the feared virus on a farm, in April 2006, after which more than 21,000 poultry were killed....

Georgia may Lose Most Pigs to Swine Fever: FAO

... Georgia and neighbouring countries, spread of the virus can not be excluded," it added. The FAO said 52 of Georgia's 65 districts were suspected of being affected by swine fever by mid-June, and more than 30,000 pigs had died. A further 22,000 had been culled. "The Republic of Georgia faces an excepti...

Ninth HIV-infected Child Dies in Kazakhstan

...with the death of a ninth child who contracted the virus at a hospital due to negligence, an AIDS centre sa...118 children and 14 mothers were infected with the virus that can lead to AIDS, mainly during blood transfusions. Often the medical equipment used was not st...

India Records Substantial Decline in Polio Cases

...NS. He said unlike last year, the number of P-1 virus cases - the more virulent variety - is less. This ...year, of the 82 cases reported, 44 were of the P-3 virus and the rest of P-1 virus. P-2 virus polio was eradicated globally by 1999. According to Health M...

Avian Flu Seen in Others Birds too

...N scientists have reported the discovery of a new virus carried by bats that can cause serious flu-like sy...Middle East. He said that in places where the H5N1 virus was introduced during the past six months, it was rapidly detected and eliminated or controlled. B...

Vaccine Ninety Percent Effective Against Cervical Cancer

...ho already test positive for both of the targeting virus strains. But those who were exposed to only one of the strains would be protected from the other, and even those who had been exposed to both "received some cross-protection from other strains," he said. Cervical cancer is the second most common ...

Potentially Lethal H5N1 Bird Flu Resurfaces in Europe

...6,000 turkeys were slaughtered last week after the virus was detected there. The farm in Tisova was the f...h veterinary services, told AFP Wednesday the H5N1 virus had been confirmed by a national laboratory. It was "the most serious animal infection" in the cou...

Potential Cure for HIV Discovered

...on, scientists have discovered a way to remove the virus from infected cells, a study released Thursday sa...ineered an enzyme which attacks the DNA of the HIV virus and cuts it out of the infected cell, according to the study published in Science magazine. The en...

Bird Flu Risk Still Running High in Egypt, Indonesia, WHO Says

... in Egypt and Indonesia where the risk of the H5N1 virus mutating into a major human threat remains high, t... Eastern Europe and the Middle East where the H5N1 virus was introduced during the past six months, it was rapidly detected and eliminated or controlled," sa...

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