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Deadly Virus Hits Popular Lake in US

... adjoining smaller lake had been infected with the virus and ordered closure of the lock that separates Lak...ake Butte des Morts is the first occurrence of the virus in Wisconsins inland waters. The state is now testing suspect fish from Winnebago. The virus has a...

Ontario Court Awards Compensation To Paralyzed Worker

...ent but a result of "natural causes." West Nile virus is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes that have f...w symptoms three to 15 days after the bite. The virus usually results in a mild illness known as West Nile fever, which can cause fever, headache, body ac...

Killer Anesthetist Sentenced To 1933 Years In Prison

...persons with Hepatitis C. Maeso who carries the virus too , did so by giving himself shots of morphine, and them injecting the rest into patients in order to sedate them for various clinical procedures. The court heard that Maeso was head of anesthetics at Valencia's Hospital de la Fe until 1998, and ...

Out of Reach may Not Always Save You from Catching Cold

... infected with the disease could easily spread the virus by simply breathing. "Understanding the way viruses spread from human expiration means we can look to better design spaces, ventilation systems and filters," she said. Professor Morawska said the next stage of the research would investigate the ...

WHO Director Urges Nations to Share Bird Flu Virus Strains

...pon all member countries not to hold back any H5N1 virus samples as that would handicap the organization i...fight contain bird blu. "If you do not share the virus with us . I would fail you," said he said in a speech to the agency's 193 member countries. Without ...

WHO to Investigate Hepatitis Vaccine Deaths in Vietnam

...hs. Hepatitis B is a serious disease caused by a virus that attacks the liver. The virus, which is called hepatitis B virus (HBV), can cause lifelong infection, cirrhosis (scarring) of the liver, liver cancer, liver failure,...

Suicide Gene Therapy Kills Bowel Cancer Cells

...cted Enzyme Prodrug Therapy), the treatment uses a virus to attack cancer cells. But the researchers have added an extra gene to the virus. The virus is programmed to switch on the gene only if it reaches a tumour. When the gene is switched on, the v...

AIDS Vaccine Still a Long Way Off

...ystem's disease-killing T cells into attacking the virus more aggressively.In this week's New England Journ...or polio, smallpox and measles, combating the AIDS virus requires a non-traditional strategy in which a vaccine may not totally block infection, but could lo...

Study Finds the Spread of Rabies in North American Raccoons

...ocesses simultaneously shaped the spread of rabies virus in North American raccoons. A raccoon is a mamm...ramatically in 1977 when a raccoon-specific rabies virus variant (RRV) was detected in West Virginia. The RRV later spread quickly along the mid-Atlantic coa...

New Electro-chemical Biosensor to Check Food Contamination

...ar to that used by the immune system to identify a virus or bacteria in the body. Specific antibodies for atrazine have been used (in the case of pesticides) and for sulphanilamide (in the case of identifying antibiotics). Once the antibodies hook onto the contaminating particles they are attracted to th...

Thymus Transplants Give Hope to Babies With Fatal Immune Disease

... immune system was strong enough to get rid of the virus and prevent other infections. Dave'yana then went home. "If it wasn't for Dr. Markert and her team, my baby would not be here right now," Harding said. "They really fought for my baby to get the transplant." Whether she likes it or not, later thi...

Statins may Help Treat Hepatitis C Patients

...ffect of fluvastatin (FLV) in vivo, in hepatitis C virus (HCV) patients who take statins, to see whether th...easure the sustained viral response (SVR, negative virus in blood six months after the end of treatment) rate in hepatitis C patients. In this study, 104 p...

AIDS Victims, Supporters Gather in Bond of Hope

...nt be made free. But our question is that will the virus stop killing people till then? Is it fair that someone should lose his life because the statistics haven't reached the 100,000-mark?" asked Elango Ramachandar, president of Indian Network for People Living with HIV/AIDS. Ramachandar is HIV positive. ...

Bird Flu: Bangladesh Situation Serious, Indian on High Alert

... been culled and 1.5 million eggs destroyed as the virus spread to 11 out of 64 districts since the first o... March. "Bangladesh has a real chance to get the virus under control, if it commits itself to a full-scale comprehensive national control campaign," FAO Ch...

Figures of Dengue In Singapore On The Rise

... and a higher rate of multiplication of the dengue virus in infected mosquitoes," the ministry was reported... rise could be caused by a different strain of the virus spreading in Singapore. So far, one man is believed to have died this year from dengue fever. The...

Toddler Infected With Rare Side Effect Of Smallpox Vaccination Recovering

... a trip home. Apparently, the father passed on the virus to his son, during this period. Over the next fe...oldiers and their families. Vaccinia is the live virus used in smallpox vaccine. After vaccination, the body develops a resistance to vaccinia, a disease t...

Researchers Claims to Have Found Cure for Hepatitis C

...nation with ribavirin, did not have any detectable virus up to seven years later. The researchers insist ...t for the disease is said to be successful when no virus is detected in the blood six months after it. "We at VCU are encouraged by this data because it is...

Researchers Use Gene Therapy to Restore Eyesight in Blind Mice

...rt of the research the researchers used a harmless virus to provide corrective genes to mice with a genetic impairment that blocks their vision. Researchers measured the electrical activity in the retinas of mice for two months after the administering the gene therapy injection into the subretinal space ...

Study Refutes Theory on HIV's Effect on White Blood Cells

...pothesis, T cells infected by HIV produce more HIV virus particles that activate more T cells, leading to a...n for the slow pace of the process may be that the virus slowly adapts itself over the course of the infection. They, however, stress the need for further ...

WHO Announces Deal on Sharing Bird Flu Virus

...pted by the World Heath Assembly.The discussion on virus sample sharing was among the predominant subjects ...drop of an ongoing battle with Indonesia over H5N1 virus samples. Several experimental pre-pandemic vaccines based on H5N1 exist, but as the virus continue...

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