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Successfully tested universal flu vaccine on people
Acambis, the Anglo-American Biotechnology Company, has just announced to test a successful step 1 of human influenza A vaccine. The vaccine, pioneered by researchers at…
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'Pandemic' obesity is spreading rapidly across the globe
People in all regions of the world are getting fatter, except for the south and southeast Asia, according to a recent global survey.
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Diabetes can reach 'pandemic' level in Asia
According to world health experts, Asians are six times more likely to develop diabetes than whites. In the coming decades, the disease can reach pandemic levels not onl…
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Study of the victims of the H1N1 virus
Scientists at the Royal London Hospital will unearth and study the body of the British diplomat Mark Sykes, who died in 1919 - to find a way to stop the pandemic flu epi…
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Do not ignore strains of less toxic bird flu viruses
Experts have called for a more thorough study of the less lethal strains of the H5N1 bird flu virus because they could be the triggers of a pandemic flu outbreak.
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HIV 'relatives' cause pandemic in African monkeys
A virus that is related to HIV is spreading on a large scale in African gorillas. The culprit infecting them could be chimpanzees, the French scientists announced.
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Obesity - a global pandemic
Obesity is becoming a global pandemic and a greater threat than bird flu or warming the Earth. It is a general warning of more than 2,500 health professionals attending…
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Blood transfusions can treat the flu?
People are afraid of blood transfusions that can spread diseases such as proteins that cause mad cow disease in Europe or the US Nil virus. However, according to a new U…
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Children today and 'pandemic' allergies
Common allergies in children have increased significantly in the past 10 years in many countries around the world, especially in younger age groups and pose serious publ…
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Pandemic infections from animals
The phenomenon of people suffering from diseases that are normally only acquired by animals is strange. The worrying thing is that recently, such cases have increased ab…
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Warning about a pandemic of mad cow disease in humans
British scientists said yesterday that people could be infected with human mad cow disease for more than 50 years without getting sick. That means the scale of a mad cow…
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Pandemic & infectious diseases in human history
In the early 20th century, there were two major epidemics, 1913 smallpox and Spanish flu in 1919. Spanish flu entered Australia after the first post-World War soldiers r…
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A vaccine against promising bird flu
The successful creation of an effective anti-H5N1 vaccine, along with the accumulation of antiviral drugs, is one of the priorities that all governments around the world…
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Plague - global assassins in history
In 430 BC, during the Peloponnesian war in ancient Greece, the people of Athens were attacked by a mysterious disease, which caused so terrible consequences that they no…
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Hospitals will struggle if there is a bird flu pandemic
If a pandemic occurs with flu strains spread from person to person, Vietnam will have about 10% of the population infected, ie nearly 8.2 million people. Only 5% of thes…