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Experts unclear how China bird flu infects humans

Almost three weeks after China reported finding a new strain of bird flu in humans, experts are still stumped by how people are becoming infected when many appear to have had no recent contact with live fowl and the...

19 April, 2013

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Indian children discovered to have natural AIDS resistance. Now what?

On May 31, 1987, as panic about AIDS spread, a reporter for the New York Times spent a month investigating the transmission of the global epidemic. “In the kingdom of AIDS,” he wrote, “a penis itself, often likened to a...

19 April, 2013

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Global concerns regarding novel influenza A (H7N9) virus infections

Severe disease in humans caused by a novel influenza A virus that is distinct from circulating human influenza A viruses is a seminal event. It might herald sporadic human infections from an animal source — e.g., highly...

16 April, 2013

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Government rejects measles outbreak ‘blame’

Claims the outbreak of measles in south Wales was down to Department of Health policy in the 1990s is “completely incorrect”, the government has said. Vaccination rates fell after Dr Andrew Wakefield’s...

16 April, 2013

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Discovery points to new approach to fight dengue virus

Researchers have discovered that rising temperature induces key changes in the dengue virus when it enters its human host, and the findings represent a new approach for designing vaccines against the aggressive mosquito...

15 April, 2013

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Scientists race to stay ahead of new bird flu virus

A precious package arrived at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last Thursday afternoon. Inside, packed in dry ice to keep it frozen, was a vial containing millions of viruses derived from a 35-year-old...

15 April, 2013

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People, networks may sway parents’ vaccine choices

The people and information sources parents surround themselves with may influence their choice to vaccinate their children or not, according to a survey from one county in Washington state. Of almost 200 parents who...

15 April, 2013

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New project set to combat virus

China’s science and health authorities have announced a new project to fight the H7N9 virus, and plan to develop a vaccine within seven months. The Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Health and...

12 April, 2013

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Doctor in China says 4-year-old boy recovers from H7N9 bird flu

A 4-year-old boy has recovered from a new strain of bird flu that has killed nine people in China, a doctor said Wednesday, as the country’s premier said the outbreak was under control. The child from Shanghai is...

11 April, 2013

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Insufficient funding, lawlessness, threats to workers major hurdles

Insufficient funding, lawlessness and the vaccination workers’ failure to operate in restive areas in endemic countries have emerged as major challenges to a new $5.5 billion global plan to halt all polio outbreaks by...

11 April, 2013

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