Epidemic

Cholera Emergency: Zim Needs Help

10:09am UK, Thursday December 04, 2008 Zimbabwe has declared its cholera outbreak a national emergency and appealed for help to deal with the crisis. Queues for clean water in Harare The country's health minister announced the...

Mo. school unsure of possible HIV outbreak

Preliminary tests show 2 new cases, but unclear if they are tied to school ST. LOUIS - Six weeks after someone with HIV said dozens of students at a St. Louis high school might have been exposed to the virus, it remains unclear...

Study sheds light on causes of HIV dementia

A new study led by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has clarified how two major variants of HIV differ in their ability to cause neurologic complications. The finding, published in...

Mozambique: Maximum Alert Against Cholera

Maputo — The Mozambican health authorities are on "maximum alert" against the spread of the cholera epidemic currently ravaging Zimbabwe into Mozambique. Health Minister Ivo Garrido told AIM on Thursday that teams have been...

Well-armed immune cells help long-term non-progressors contain HIV

EUREKALERT Contact: Laura Sivitz sivitzl@niaid.nih.gov NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases To help develop an effective HIV vaccine, researchers are trying to better understand how the immune systems of a...

Data Demonstrating Significant Efficacy Of Viread(R) In Treating Chronic Hepatitis B Published In...

Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) today announced the publication of detailed 48-week data from two Phase III pivotal clinical trials evaluating the safety and efficacy of its once-daily Viread® (tenofovir disoproxil...

Experimental Vaginal Gel Doesn't Ward Off HIV (HealthDay)

THURSDAY, Dec. 4 (HealthDay News) -- A microbicidal vaginal gel called Carraguard doesn't protect women from HIV infection. That's the conclusion of a study that included more than 6,200 sexually-active, HIV-negative women at...

Happiness: Contagious as the Flu (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - In a good mood? Your neighbor, her friends and even her friends' friends should thank you - you're likely infecting them with your cheer. Happiness spreads through social networks about as easily as the flu,...

National Influenza Vaccination Week

National Influenza Vaccination Week By John Boyd (WICHITA, Kan.) The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say influenza and pneumonia is leading cause of...

Malaria, West Nile virus vaccines sought

Published: Dec. 4, 2008 at 2:30 PM FORT COLLINS, Colo., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they are trying to develop vaccines aimed at ticks and mosquitoes to prevent such diseases as West Nile virus and malaria. "In order to...

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