Virus

Rare Virus Poses New Threat To Troops

War News Updates (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago

U.S. Marines conduct a vehicle sweep to ensure there are no hidden improvised explosive devices during a security patrol through the Nawa district in the Helmand province, Afghanistan, Oct. 28, 2009. U.S Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Artur Shvartsberg From The Washington Times: KANDAHAR, Afghanistan | U.S. military officials sent a medical team to a remote outpost in southern Afghanistan this week to...

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French Scientists Reengineer HIV Virus to Halt Brain Disease

US News (Free subscription) | yesterday

The HIV virus was adapted to carry healthy genes and help halt the advance of a deadly brain disease.

Rare Ebola like Virus Poses New Threat to Troops!

Government Mess (Free subscription) | yesterday

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan | U.S. military officials sent a medical team to a remote outpost in southern Afghanistan this week to take blood samples from members of an Army unit after a soldier in the unit died from an Ebola-like virus. Dr. Jim Radike, an expert in internal medicine and infectious diseases at the Role 3 Trauma Hospital at Kandahar Air Field, told The Washington Times that Sgt. Robert David...

H1N1 virus linked to three more deaths in B.C.

Soc 202 - Current Events (Free subscription) | yesterday

Ana Cole Blog #10 11/06/2009 9:23am Summary According to the B.C. Center for Disease Control, three more people have died in British Columbia from illness associated with swine flu. There were two deaths in the Fraser Health Region and one from the Vancouver Coastal Health Region. There is a startling increase in the number of hospitalizations due to the virus in the past seven days. Since the outbreak...

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and ME May Be Caused by XMRV Virus

Knights of the Pain Table (Free subscription) | yesterday

Chronic Fatigue and ME A dramatic breakthrough in understanding the cause of the conditions Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) has been made by researchers at The Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease (WPI) in Nevada, U.S.A. The WPI is the first institute in the world dedicated to neuro-immune diseases. ME is [...]

Clouds and Mountains wallpaper, Rare Arnoux’s beaked whales sighted, Using AIDS virus to cure brain disease

tangledwing (Free subscription) | yesterday

Clouds and Mountains wallpaper Rare whale gathering sighted A large group of a rarely sighted, mysterious species of whale has been seen off the coast of Antarctica. Approximately 60 Arnoux’s beaked whales were seen and photographed frolicking on the surface in the Gerlache Strait. Few sightings of this enigmatic species are made in the wild, and even less in [...]

How the flu invades your body

Gumbo (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

When you get the flu, viruses turn your cells into tiny factories that help spread the disease. In this animation, NPR's Robert Krulwich and medical animator David Bolinsky explain how a flu virus can trick a single cell into making a million more viruses. (Presurfer)

Why You Need to Take the H1N1 Vaccine

Health Care (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Vaccines are the only effective means you will have to protect yourself, your family and your co-workers from potential death from the H1N1 Swine Flu virus. When both the World Health Organization (WHO) and The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) put out a World-wide alert that this disease is serious ...

Doctors Use HIV to Cure Rare Brain Disease

ShoutWire.com (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

French scientists mixed gene therapy and bone marrow transplants in two boys to seemingly halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence. The surprise ingredient: They disabled the HIV virus so it couldn't cause AIDS, and then used it to carry in the healthy new gene.

unidentified flue outbreak in western ukraine

subrealism (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago

Zik | Western Ukraine was hit by a severe epidemic of unidentified influenza, tentatively diagnosed by doctors as viral pneumonia. The number of dead has climbed dramatically. Doctors advise Western Ukrainians to stay at home and use preventive medication. The first pedestrians wearing face masks have been seen on Lviv streetsTwo of the dead patients were in the 22-35 age group, with 2 others over...

Pneumonic Plague Drill Held in Illinois

Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago

In Lake in the Hills, Illinois, police will conduct a drill to combat a fictitious pneumonic plague on Saturday. “The Lake in the Hills Police Department is carrying out the test as part of a grant from the McHenry County Department of Health for its emergency health plan. In case of a biological terrorist attack or widespread disease outbreak, the site would be able get medicine to the community,...

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Earth and other unlikely worlds (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago

Data from Kaguya's prime mission to the Moon has been released 'Yesterday, the Japanese space agency announced the public release of the data from the primary mission of the Kaguya (a.k.a. SELENE) lunar orbiter. The release covers the period from December 21, 2007 to October 31, 2008, and includes data from all of the science instruments (which excludes the HD camera, not a science instrument)....

HIV…is a good thing

Heretical Ideas Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

This is just awesome. French scientists mixed gene therapy and bone marrow transplants in two boys to seemingly halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence. The surprise ingredient: They disabled the HIV virus so it couldn’t cause AIDS, and then used it to carry in the healthy new gene. Good work!

CDC Adopts Near Real-Time Flu Tracking System

Click World News (Free subscription) | yesterday

CWmike writes "The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched an effort this week to better and more easily track for H1N1 and other seasonal influenza activity throughout the US. The CDC said it is now tracking data on 14 million patients from physician practices and hospitals stored on a database hosted by GE Healthcare. The data is submitted daily from physician's offices and hospitals...

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Risk-reduction sex education lowers disease, pregnancy rates

Washington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday

Sex education programs that encourage teens to delay sexual activity but also teach them how to reduce their chances of getting pregnant or a sexually transmitted disease cut risky sexual behavior, increase condom use and lower the chances of getting the AIDS virus and other infections, an indepe...

Should we be Afraid of the Swine Flu in Lyon ?

helenely1 | 11/03/2009

We should consider the swine flu more seriously than a cold since any flu is always a highly contagious disease caused by a virus. Young children, pregnant women and people with respiratory problems are more liable to be infected by the flu influenza, especially when they have not been vaccinated against a new virus that has just mutated. Every year the regular flu kills 36 , 000 people in America

CDC estimates for spring’s swine flu outbreak in the millions

obi jo | 10/31/2009

http://benkazie.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/cdc-estimates-for-springs-swine-flu-outbreak-in-the-millions/ H1N1 continues to be a major concern to all Americans. The CDC has now confirmed what most American’s already know – the numbers of persons affected is large and widespread. The data just released indicates that in the spring of 2009 as many as 5 million + individuals were infected with the swine...

Herpes Simplex Virus Infection Therapy Area Pipeline Report

aarkstore | 10/29/2009

Herpes Simplex Virus Infection Therapy Area Pipeline Report contains detailed information on the herpes simplex virus infection drug pipeline. This report provides insight into the pipeline status of herpes simplex virus infection drugs by company and by stage as well as a summary of the latest news and developments in this area. Scope of the report: Therapy Area Pipeline Report provides the user with...