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Genetic testing needed to follow TB outbreaks
• Infections • Feb 11 05
Simply tracing one exposed person to the next is not an accurate way to follow the spread of tuberculosis, Norwegian researchers report. Instead, formal…
Bacterial infection may cut esophageal cancer risk
• Infections • Feb 10 05
People who aren’t infected with Helicobacter pylori have a “markedly increased” risk of developing esophageal cancer, a new study shows. However, the findings don’t…
Conventional TB tests fail millions, say health experts
• Infections • Feb 07 05
Eight-year-old Simon Njeri was in and out of hospital much of last year until his mother, Teresa, went to a drop-in centre in Kayole,…
Stigma numbs Tanzania’s attempts at battling leprosy
• Infections • Feb 07 05
Paulina Nungu believes witchcraft was behind the leprosy which ate away her index finger and some of her toes.
She contracted the disease while…
WHO: Asia on track to halt polio spread by year-end
• Infections • Feb 04 05
India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the last three Asian countries where polio is endemic, are on track to halt its spread by year-end after halving…
Japan has first death from human mad cow disease
• Infections • Feb 04 05
Japan confirmed Friday its first case of the human variant of mad cow disease after the death of a man believed to have contracted…
NY officials bar rabbi from circumcision ritual
• Infections • Feb 03 05
New York City health officials have gone to court to stop a rabbi from performing a type of ritual circumcision they believe may have…
Two New York Men Diagnosed With Rare Sexually Transmitted Disease
• Infections • Feb 03 05
A rare sexually transmitted disease that can scar the genitals has been found in two patients in New York, and the strain is the…
First Cambodian human case of infection with A/H5 avian influenza
• Infections • Feb 03 05
The Ministry of Health in Viet Nam has today reported one further laboratory confirmed case of human infection with H5 avian influenza. The 25-year-old…
China says meningitis outbreak routine
• Infections • Feb 02 05
China sought on Wednesday to play down fears of a meningitis outbreak, echoing World Health Organisation (WHO) comments that the incidents were routine and…
HK wants info on deadly China meningitis outbreak
• Infections • Feb 01 05
Hong Kong health officials are urgently seeking information about an outbreak of meningitis in China that has infected more than 250 people and killed…
Leprosy infections down but stigma persists: WHO
• Infections • Feb 01 05
Leprosy cases have declined over the past two decades but much still needs to be done to help those suffering in silence because of…
Low risk to human health from BSE goat case: EU
• Infections • Feb 01 05
The world’s first case of “mad cow disease” found in a goat poses only a minimal risk to human health and the brain-wasting disease…
Louse-borne bacteria found in 4000-year-old tooth
• Infections • Feb 01 05
DNA from a microbe that is transmitted by body lice and can cause trench fever, was recently identified in a human tooth dating back…
Tuberculosis case sparks Dutch health scare
• Infections • Jan 31 05
A supermarket worker in a central Dutch town has been diagnosed with a virulent form of tuberculosis (TB), sparking the largest health screening of…
Malaria in Aceh under control, aid group says
• Infections • Jan 28 05
Outbreaks of malaria in Aceh may be fewer than before the tsunami that made a half-million homeless, due to intense preventive programmes by…
Mad cow disease found in French goat, EU says
• Infections • Jan 28 05
Mad cow disease has been found in a goat, the first time the brain-wasting affliction that ravaged European cattle herds and killed at least…
Antibody curbs late anthrax illness, in rats
• Infections • Jan 27 05
Synthetically produced antibodies that target a component of the anthrax toxin may reduce illness and death due anthrax exposure, even after shock has set…
Cholera outbreak kills 23 in eastern Congo
• Infections • Jan 25 05
An outbreak of cholera has killed 23 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo over the past three weeks and infected more than 850…
Disease outbreak still risk in Indonesia’s Aceh - WHO
• Infections • Jan 25 05
Survivors of last month’s quake and tsunami in Indonesia still face the risk of deadly disease outbreaks such as cholera, but epidemics could…
Illness may help mad cow agent spread, study finds
• Infections • Jan 20 05
The agent that transmits mad cow and related diseases may spread further in the body of an animal suffering from certain illnesses, scientists said…
Dual infection may cause serious lung disease
• Infections • Jan 20 05
Infants who become infected with both respiratory syncytial virus and metapneumovirus are prone to develop severe inflammation of the small airways of the…
New virus may cause childhood diseases - study
• Infections • Jan 19 05
A newly discovered virus related to the SARS virus may cause several mysterious childhood ailments, including Kawasaki disease, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
The…
Modified measles vaccine could fight West Nile
• Infections • Jan 17 05
A measles vaccine, modified to express a West Nile virus protein, protects mice against West Nile virus, according to French researchers.
The researchers believe…
Douching not related to pelvic disease
• Infections • Jan 14 05
Contrary to some past reports, new study findings indicate that women who douche do not increase their risk of pelvic inflammatory disease, or genital…