News tagged with global epidemic

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

created Apr 25, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

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

created Jan 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

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

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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

created Apr 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

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

created Apr 26, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0