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SOUTH KOREA STRUGGLING TO CONTAIN NOROVIRUS OUTBREAK AT OLYMPICS
The Olympic organizing committee said 63 of those sickened, mostly security staff, were staying at a youth training center in PyeongChang... READ MORE›
A SALTY CURE FOR A DEADLY FROG DISEASE
Chytridiomycosis is an infectious disease caused by the chytrid fungus and blamed for wiping out more than a third of the world's frog species... READ MORE›
MAPPED: THE MOST DANGEROUS DISEASES AROUND THE WORLD
Meanwhile, Western nations have developed diets and lifestyles which allow chronic non-communicable diseases to flourish... READ MORE›
LAB-BRED MOSQUITOES TO FLY NEAR MIAMI TO HELP COMBAT ZIKA
MosquitoMate infects male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes with the naturally occurring Wolbachia bacteria... READ MORE›
FACEBOOK CAN BE USED STOP DISEASE OUTBREAKS
Such people would be central in their social networks, and thus likelier to spread disease-causing germs from one group to another... READ MORE›
THAT'S SICK! HUMANS CAN IDENTIFY INFECTED PEERS FROM A PHOTO
Further study is needed to determine whether levels of infection detection are similar across diseases and ethnic groups... READ MORE›
NEW DRUGS KNOCK BACK CANCER BUT TRIGGER BIZARRE SIDE EFFECTS
He was worried that Legg had eye inflammation, called uveitis, that was caused by an immunotherapy drug she had been on for advanced lung cancer... READ MORE›
FUNGAL DISEASE COULD KILL OFF SNAKES AROUND THE WORLD
Although molting can resolve most cases, snakes can die from the infection... READ MORE›
PHILIPPINES LAUNCHES PROBE INTO DENGUE VACCINE SCARE
Sanofi's Dengvaxia is the first-ever approved dengue vaccine... READ MORE›
ENGLAND HIT BY 50-YEAR SPIKE IN BACTERIAL INFECTION
A new study says England is seeing a dramatic increase in cases of scarlet fever, an infectious disease that mostly affects children... READ MORE›
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CUDDLING KITTENS CAN KILL YOU, WARN SCIENTISTS
Doctors from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US conducted a large-scale survey of the cat-borne bacterial disease cat scratch fever... READ MORE›
'PATIENTS ARE BETTER OFF BECAUSE OF THE WORK HE HAS DONE'
Dr. Mark Wainberg, a Montreal-based trailblazer in HIV AIDS research and an internationally renowned scientist, died Tuesday after swimming in rough water in Bal Harbour, Fla... READ MORE›
RECOGNISING THAT MIND AND BODY ARE NOT SEPARATE OPENS DOOR FOR NEW TREATMENTS
It's all challenging the idea that the brain is this separate privileged organ, said Howes... READ MORE›
20 MILLION MOSQUITOES TO HIT FRESNO; THAT'S A GOOD THING, REALLY
Sign Up Verily isn't the first to use Wolbachia mosquitoes for disease control... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN WORLD FIRST AS MALARIA VACCINE PASSES HUMAN TRIAL
In a world first a new malaria vaccine developed by Australian scientists has passed its first test in early human trials... READ MORE›
MENINGITIS B VACCINE OFFERED TO ALL BABIES FROM SEPTEMBER
All newborn babies in England and Scotland are to be offered a vaccine to combat meningitis B from September... READ MORE›
ALARM SPREADS IN BRAZIL OVER A VIRUS AND A SURGE IN MALFORMED INFANTS
Brazil waged war on the Aedes aegypti mosquito for decades during the 20th century before a vaccine was developed for yellow fever... READ MORE›
ZIKA VIRUS SPREADING EXPLOSIVELY, SAYS WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION
It was deeply concerning that the virus had now been detected in 23 countries in the Americas, she added... READ MORE›
FIRST LOCALLY TRANSMITTED CASES IN CONTINENTAL U.S.
Four individuals in Miami-Dade and Broward counties have been infected with the Zika virus by local mosquitoes, Florida health officials said Friday... READ MORE›
NORTH KOREA CLAIMS IT HAS DISCOVERED CURE FOR AIDS, EBOLA, MERS AND SARS
The North's claim comes as rival South Korea fights an outbreak of Mers that has killed two dozen people and infected more than 160 since last month... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN DIES OF RARE MOSQUITO-BORNE DISEASE AFTER VISITING THAILAND
Updated June 21, 2017 17 59 09 An Australian man returned from Thailand has died from the rare but potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease, Japanese encephalitis... READ MORE›
ZIKA VIRUS MAY BE LINKED TO SURGE IN RARE SYNDROME IN BRAZIL
The virus, called Zika, made its way to Brazil recently but is spreading rapidly around Latin America and the Caribbean... READ MORE›
AIR POLLUTION LEADS TO MORE DRUG RESISTANT BACTERIA, STUDY FINDS
Our research could initiate an entirely new understanding of how air pollution affects human health... READ MORE›
1 DEAD, 11 OTHERS HOSPITALIZED IN LISTERIA OUTBREAK LINKED TO DOLE SALADS
Tests from the Ohio Department of Agriculture found listeria bacteria in a package of Dole field greens produced at a processing facility in Springfield, Ohio... READ MORE›
WINNIPEG LAB EMPLOYEE POSSIBLY EXPOSED TO EBOLA VIRUS
An employee at the National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease in Winnipeg has potentially been exposed to the Ebola virus... READ MORE›
BABY GIRL IS FIRST IN THE WORLD TO BE TREATED WITH 'DESIGNER IMMUNE CELLS'
Despite several rounds of intensive chemotherapy, Layla still had leukaemia cells in her body when the transplant was performed, and seven weeks later the disease returned... READ MORE›
HOSPITAL MISTAKES BLAMED FOR US TRANSMISSION
Farmers in Sierra Leone who have deserted their land because of the Ebola outbreak are being encouraged to go back to work... READ MORE›
CHILD TREATED FOR HIV AT BIRTH IS HEALTHY NINE YEARS ON WITHOUT FURTHER TREATMENT
Child treated for HIV at birth is healthy nine years on without further treatment... READ MORE›
HIV SPREADS LIKE COMPUTER WORMS, SAY SCIENTISTS
New model equates spread of worm across local networks and internet with progress of Aids virus through the body, suggesting early treatment is vital... READ MORE›
DOCTORS RUDELY WARN PUBLIC NOT TO SNUGGLE KITTENS
Cat-scratch fever is caused by a bacteria found in fleas... READ MORE›
FLORIDA MAY HAVE ITS FIRST ZIKA VIRUS OUTBREAK
Small, local outbreaks of Zika virus are fully expected in southern states such as Florida, Louisiana and Texas... READ MORE›
HIV VACCINE TEST HOPES FOR BREAKTHROUGH IN COMBAT AGAINST THE VIRUS
But researchers chasing the holy grail of a vaccine think they could have better success in South Africa, because of a number of modifications... READ MORE›
PNEUMONIA: ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE LUNG CONDITION
Pneumonia is an inflammation of the tissue in one or both lungs, usually caused by a bacterial infection... READ MORE›
ZIKA VIRUS LIKELY TO SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE AMERICAS, SAYS WHO
Evidence includes temporal association between Zika outbreaks and microcephaly outbreaks both in Brazil and French Polynesia, she said... READ MORE›
PAULINE CAFFERKEY THE BRITISH NURSE WHO CONTRACTED EBOLA WHILE VOLUNTEERING IN SIERRA LEONE HAS LEFT HOSPITAL AFTER MAKING A COMPLETE RECOVERY
Miss Cafferkey said she was happy to be alive and thanked staff at the Royal Free Hospital in London who she said had saved her life... READ MORE›
WHO DECLARES END OF ZIKA EMERGENCY BUT SAYS VIRUS REMAINS A THREAT
Officials on WHO's Emergency Committee made clear the Zika still constitutes a global public health threat... READ MORE›
NORTH KOREA CLAIMS 'CURE' FOR MERS, AIDS AND EBOLA
According to the pro-North Korea website Minjok Tongshin, the drug was originally produced in 1996... READ MORE›
WOMAN DIES AFTER SCRATCHING HAND DURING GARDENING
It was there, after a simple blood test, that Smith was diagnosed with sepsis, sent to critical care, and put on intravenous antibiotics... READ MORE›
RE-EMERGENCE OF EBOLA IN LIBERIA REMAINS A MYSTERY
The six new infections in Liberia since June 21 include two deaths... READ MORE›
U.S. FDA KNEW DEVICES SPREAD FATAL 'SUPERBUG' BUT DOES NOT ORDER FIX
Last month, Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle said a bacteria spread through contaminated scopes had infected 32 people over two years 11 died... READ MORE›