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Fear, ignorance fuel Marburg outbreak in Angola
• Infections • Apr 11 05
Fear and ignorance are fueling the world’s deadliest outbreak of Marburg fever in Angola, where locals are too suspicious of medics in “astronaut”…
Roma tomatoes linked to US, Canadian salmonella outbreaks
• Infections • Apr 07 05
Contaminated Roma tomatoes were the likely cause of a string of salmonella outbreaks that made 561 people sick in the United States and Canada…
Vaccine promising against disease-causing HPV
• Infections • Apr 06 05
Certain strains of the virus responsible for causing Genital Warts - human papillomavirus or HPV - are also likely to trigger…
Cholera outbreak kills 50 in Senegal
• Infections • Apr 06 05
Fifty people have died from cholera in the past 10 days in Senegal, about five times as many as were killed by…
Angola Marburg outbreak not yet under control - UN
• Infections • Apr 05 05
Angola’s Marburg epidemic, which has claimed 155 lives, is not under control and the country urgently needs protective clothing for health workers battling the…
Vitamins may not protect elderly from infections
• Infections • Apr 01 05
The value of multivitamins and mineral supplements in preventing infections in the elderly is still not clear, according to a new review of…
Angola’s Marburg death toll climbs to 126
• Infections • Mar 31 05
Angola’s killer Marburg epidemic has claimed nine more victims this week bringing the death toll to 126, the country’s health ministry and World Health…
Rare gay male sex disease enters Britain: report
• Infections • Mar 31 05
A rare disease found in gay men in the Netherlands two years ago, and since reported in France, Sweden, Belgium, Germany and the…
Marburg outbreak breeds fear in Angola hospitals
• Infections • Mar 30 05
Amid fears the deadly Marburg virus may reach Angola’s capital, staff at state hospitals in tatters after a ruinous civil war said on Wednesday…
Hepatitis C antibodies may be slow to appear
• Infections • Mar 29 05
The findings of a long-term study of injection drug users newly infected with Hepatitis C virus (HCV) show that antibodies to the…
Months after mono, virus remains in saliva
• Infections • Mar 24 05
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), the virus that causes mononucleosis - also known as mono or the kissing disease -persists at high levels in…
Africa lags in fight against TB, WHO report says
• Infections • Mar 24 05
Tuberculosis has reached “alarming proportions” in Africa, where co-infection with the widespread HIV virus makes a lethal combination, the World Health Organization…
U.N. declares meningitis outbreak in Darfur
• Infections • Mar 23 05
The United Nations has declared a meningitis outbreak in Sudan’s troubled North Darfur state with 27 suspected cases and 2 deaths, a…
Marburg virus blamed for 96 deaths in Angola
• Infections • Mar 22 05
An illness that has killed nearly 100 people in northern Angola was identified on Tuesday as Marburg virus, which is in the same family…
Rubella eliminated from United States, CDC
• Infections • Mar 21 05
Rubella, a viral infection that once caused tens of thousands of birth defects and deaths in a single outbreak, has been eliminated…
Measles outbreak kills 76 in northeastern Nigeria
• Infections • Mar 21 05
At least 76 people, most of them children, have died and hundreds been hospitalized following an outbreak of measles in the northeastern…
Bird flu infects 5-year-old Vietnamese boy
• Infections • Mar 18 05
A 5-year-old Vietnamese boy has been infected by the bird flu virus that has killed 47 people in Asia, but is recovering, doctors…
Angola says at least 77 die in acute fever outbreak
• Infections • Mar 18 05
At least 77 people, most of them children, have died in northern Angola after an outbreak of a disease the World Health Organization (WHO)…
Tuberculosis rate falls to record low in U.S.
• Infections • Mar 17 05
The tuberculosis (TB) infection rate in the United States fell to a record low last year, but the relatively small decline raised…
Fatal rabies cases caused by infected organ donor
• Infections • Mar 16 05
This week’s issue of The New England Journal of Medicine carries a paper describing previously reported cases of fatal rabies infection in patients who…
Sudan fears meningitis epidemic by May
• Infections • Mar 15 05
Sudan fears it will face a meningitis epidemic this summer and is launching a campaign to fight Malaria, which kills up…
Airborne bacteria in pools linked with infections
• Infections • Mar 15 05
nfections with bacteria in the Mycobacteria family, which includes disease such as tuberculosis, are spread in warm-water therapy pools by becoming airborne, and current…
More ventilation may reduce in-flight disease risk
• Infections • Mar 11 05
The risk of catching an infectious illness on commercial aircraft may be reduced if the cabin air is refreshed more frequently, a new report…
US hepatitis outbreaks tied to use of test devices
• Infections • Mar 10 05
Improper use of blood sugar testing devices likely fueled a string of Hepatitis B outbreaks in U.S. nursing homes that killed two people…
Medieval plague may explain resistance to HIV
• Infections • Mar 10 05
The persistent epidemics of haemorrhagic fever that struck Europe during the Middle Ages provided the selection pressures that have made 10 percent of Europeans…