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Hong Kong official resigns over SARS
• Infections • Jul 08 04
Bowing to pressure over a slow response to SARS, Hong Kong’s health secretary resigned yesterday and took the blame for the crisis that killed…
China culls 20,000 chickens to contain bird flu
• Infections • Jul 08 04
China culled more than 20,000 chickens in central Anhui province to isolate a new outbreak of bird flu, a local official said on Thursday,…
Deadly bird flu erupts again in Thailand, China
• Infections • Jul 07 04
The strain of bird flu that killed 24 people in Southeast Asia early this year has erupted again in Thailand and China, but authorities…
Hepatitis: A Common Virus
• Infections • Jul 04 04
It’s estimated that up to a third of all Americans will be infected with a form of hepatitis in their lifetimes. Despite its prevalence,…
WHO urges safety reviews for SARS laboratories
• Infections • Jul 02 04
The World Health Organisation urged countries on Friday to review safety in laboratories after finding that this year’s outbreak of SARS likely originated…
N. Carolina firm recalls chicken over listeria fear
• Infections • Jul 02 04
A North Carolina-based chicken processor is recalling about 404,730 pounds of chicken products over possible Listeria contamination, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on…
China blames SARS outbreak on lab workers
• Infections • Jul 01 04
China’s Health Ministry has blamed this year’s outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome on several people at the country’s Center for Disease Control and…
Nigerian north will fight polio with vaccine - WHO
• Infections • Jun 30 04
The governor of Nigeria’s northern Kano state, focus of polio outbreaks in parts of west Africa, has pledged to start an immunization program in…
Bird flu mutating into more deadly threat - study
• Infections • Jun 29 04
A frightening strain of bird flu that can kill people is mutating into an ever more deadly form in ducks and needs to be…
Woman with human form of mad cow disease dies in US
• Infections • Jun 22 04
A Florida woman suffering from the only known case in the United States of the human form of mad cow disease has died, her…
Bangladesh begins immunisation against anthrax
• Infections • Jun 21 04
Bangladesh launched an immunisation drive on Sunday against anthrax in a southeastern region after a wild elephant died of the disease and triggered a…
Doctors find SARS virus in tears of patients
• Infections • Jun 21 04
Tears might spread SARS, but analysing samples taken from tear ducts could also help with detecting the virus early, doctors in Singapore said on…
First SARS human vaccine trial under way in China
• Infections • Jun 10 04
The first clinical trials of a SARS vaccine are under way in China where four volunteers have been injected with a prototype, the World…
Scientists say develop new SARS tracing method
• Infections • Jun 04 04
Scientists in Singapore said on Friday they had developed a faster method of detecting strains of the SARS virus.
A new chip containing a…
Scientists produce cow immune to mad cow disease
• Infections • May 31 04
Kirin Brewery Co, Japan’s number-two beer maker, has succeeded in producing a cow that is immune to mad cow disease, but experts said it…
Nigeria state says polio vaccinations won’t resume
• Infections • May 27 04
A predominantly Muslim state in northern Nigeria said on Thursday it would not take part in a polio immunisation campaign despite assurances from the…
Ohio has first 2004 U.S. West Nile case - report
• Infections • May 27 04
The first likely case of human West Nile infection in 2004 was reported in Ohio on Tuesday, health officials said.
The Ohio Department of…
Health experts propose new anti-malaria strategy
• Infections • May 27 04
Public health experts proposed on Friday a new strategy to halve malaria deaths by 2010 and said linking malaria with other disease control programmes…
WHO still searching china lab for SARS ‘smoking gun’
• Infections • May 27 04
The mystery of how China’s latest SARS outbreak leaked from a national laboratory remains unsolved and it is too soon to establish if the…
China releases patient, says SARS controlled in Anhui
• Infections • May 27 04
An outbreak of SARS is under control in China’s eastern province of Anhui, state media said Monday, but in Beijing, where six patients are…
China releases two more SARS patients, four remain
• Infections • May 27 04
A Beijing hospital discharged two recovered SARS patients on Tuesday, the health ministry said, appearing to bring further under control a small outbreak of…
Mexico rushes out measles vaccines to curb outbreak
• Infections • May 27 04
Mexico said on Monday it was rushing measles vaccinations to 16.5 million people across the country after an outbreak of the disease among adults…
Mass smallpox vaccination not needed: report
• Infections • May 27 04
Mass vaccination may not be necessary to contain smallpox in the event of a biowarfare attack, scientists said on Wednesday.
Instead, they suggested that…
Lawmaker questions USDA mad cow efforts
• Infections • May 27 04
The U.S. Agriculture Department’s blunder in failing to test a condemned Texas cow for mad cow disease may reflect wider problems in the…
Set for ban, DDT lingers in battle against malaria
• Infections • May 27 04
Few poisons have ridden such a roller coaster through environmental history as DDT.
Once hailed as a miracle pesticide, DDT is outlawed as one…