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China confirms bird flu in humans

New outbreaks of bird flu have been reported in China but this time they were human. The first human case who died in China was a 24-year-old woman in China's eastern province of Anhui. Another 12-year-old girl from central Hunan province who died in October is also suspected to had died from the...

by User avatar Miia2818

Sick Swedish seagull was drunk, not affected by bird flu

That the bird flu scare is present and big shows us a recent event that occurred in a Swedish town Sundsvall on the east coast. A big panic emerged across the country and among authorities when a drunken seagull was found and brought to the laboratory. Veterinarians examined the bird with extra...

by User avatar Jane232591

Genetic map shows route to personal drugs

An international team of 200 scientists mapped the entire genome of 269 people, and identified tiny differences in key areas of DNA. The HapMAp is a map of the most common differences in the human genome, which could lead to personalised treatments for diseases. Humans are genetically 99.9%...

by User avatar Jane232591

Bird flu takes another life, panic in Europe

Bangkok reports that the bird flu has taken another human life. A 48-year-old Thai man is the 67th person known to have been killed by a virus which is slowly creeping from Asia into Europe and possibly towards Africa. In Indonesia, possible clusters of bird flu among members of the same family...

by User avatar Jane232591

Hungarians test human vaccine against the bird-flu virus

Hungarians have developed a prototype of a vaccine against the bird-flu and it proved to be effective against birds. The prototype vaccine showed effectiveness against the Asian H5N1 strain of bird flu among poultry and it can be used to vaccinate them. The vaccine was developed from isolated...

by User avatar Jane232591

Still not ready for the bird flu pandemic

There won’t be much to do to fight H5N1 avian influenza if the vaccines and drugs against bird flu come too late and the virus spreads to people. Meetings are being held, international visits being made in effort to battle avian influenza but it seems that little real progress has been made in...

by User avatar Mick

Pillows can harbour harmful fungi

A new research shows the average pillow is home to a host of potentially-harmful fungi. The researchers took samples from 10 pillows - five feather and five and found 16 types of fungi. Feather pillows had fewer species than synthetic versions. The fungal spores found in the pillows fed off human...

by User avatar Bobby

Bats a 'likely source' of Sars

The researchers believe that the likely source of the respiratory disease Sars is the horseshoe bat in which a virus closely related to the Sars corona virus has been found. The virus found is 92% similar to the human Sars virus. The horseshoe bats were found in three regions of China and do exist...

by User avatar Jane232591

Mice infected with plague missing from lab

Three mice that were previously infected with the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague disappeared from a laboratory about two weeks ago in New Jersey. An immediate search was conducted but the mice have not been found. Regardless the mice haven’t been found yet; health experts say that there...

by User avatar Jane232591

Chemicals in New Orleans bigger concern than cholera

Five people, who survived hurricane Katrina that hit the region of New Orleans, died from a bacteria-caused illness. However, public health officials are more concerned about toxic chemicals in the water covering New Orleans than they are about a cholera outbreak. It’s been more than a week since...

by User avatar Mick