News tagged with global epidemic
Clinton warns of bioweapon threat from gene tech
(AP) -- New gene assembly technology that offers great benefits for scientific research could also be used by terrorists to create biological weapons, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned ...
Dec 07, 2011 |
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Spread of fungus-farming beetles is bad news for trees
(PhysOrg.com) -- North Carolina State University researchers have found that a subset of fungus-farming ambrosia beetles may be in the early stages of a global epidemic threatening a number of economically ...
Jul 13, 2011 |
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UN: Deaths up from cancer, diabetes, heart disease
(AP) -- Nearly two-thirds of deaths in the world are caused by noncommunicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart and lung disease which are rapidly increasing at a cost to the global economy of trillions of dollars, ...
Jun 21, 2011 |
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CDC: Not too late to get swine flu vaccination
(AP) -- Health officials are renewing their push for Americans to get swine flu vaccinations following a recent uptick in hospital cases in Georgia.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 29, 2010 |
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IU informaticists show new levels of refinement in predicting human mobility, epidemic spread
(PhysOrg.com) -- The interplay of human mobility patterns like those between local metropolitan commuters and long-range airline travelers during a global epidemic can be modeled in such detail so as to offer ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Dec 17, 2009 |
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UN: HIV outbreak peaked in 1996
(AP) -- The number of people worldwide infected with the virus that causes AIDS - about 33 million - has remained virtually unchanged for the last two years, United Nations experts said Tuesday.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 24, 2009 |
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WHO says swine flu deaths surge to 1,154
(AP) -- The World Health Organization said Tuesday that 1,154 swine flu victims have died since the virus emerged in April.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Aug 04, 2009 |
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Flu overhyped? Some say officials 'cried swine'
(AP) -- Did government health officials "cry swine" when they sounded the alarm on what looked like a threatening new flu? The so-far mild swine flu outbreak has many people saying all the talk about a devastating ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 07, 2009 |
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WHO raises its pandemic alert level on swine flu
(AP) -- The World Health Organization raised its global alert level on the spreading swine flu virus Monday, but stopped short of declaring a global emergency - even as the U.S. said it was acting as if the ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Mexico on edge as reports of swine flu cases climb
(AP) -- A new strain of swine flu has this metropolis of 20 million people increasingly fearful as suspected flu deaths grow, and world health officials warn that Mexico City could be at the epicenter of ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 26, 2009 |
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Mexico may isolate flu patients, inspect homes
(AP) -- As Mexico struggled against the odds Saturday to contain a strange new flu that has killed 68 and perhaps sickened more than 1,000, it was becoming clearer that the government hasn't moved quickly ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 25, 2009 |
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Fear, anger and fatalism over swine flu in Mexico
(AP) -- The schools and museums are closed. Sold-out games between Mexico's most popular soccer teams are being played in empty stadiums. Health workers are ordering sickly passengers off subways and buses. ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 25, 2009 |
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Global warming linked to European viral epidemic
An epidemic of the viral disease nephropathia epidemica (NE) has been linked to increases in the vole population caused by hotter summers, milder winters and increased seedcrop production by broadleaf trees. Research published ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 16, 2009 |
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