Infectious disease

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• A new way to fight malaria

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 594
  Interfere with the sex life of mosquitoes help stop the spread of malaria , according to a British study released on Thursday (24). A study about the mosquito from the species Anopheles gambiae – essentially vector of malaria transmission in Africa – has shown that due to the fact that these mosquitoes ...
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• Vi Typhoid Vaccine: Safe And Effective For Young Children

  
  Better Health — Authority: 545
  Vaccination against infectious diseases is perhaps the most important reason why millions of additional persons do not succumb with morbidity and mortality from viral and bacterial infections in the modern world. Vaccines are most effective when they are administered with sufficient distribution and frequency to ...
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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• New study shows rise in drug resistance of dangerous infection in US hospitals

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 162
  Washington, D.C. — A new study in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology reports a surge in drug-resistant strains of Acinetobacter, a dangerous type of bacteria that is becoming [...]
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• Air pollution linked to hospitalizations for pneumonia in seniors

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 619
  Hamilton, ON (Dec. 23, 2009) -- A McMaster University researcher has found the first evidence that prolonged exposure to higher levels of the pollutants found in car exhaust fumes and industrial air...
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• Pollution linked to hospitalizations for pneumonia in older adults

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 162
  Older adults with long-term exposure to higher levels of pollution are at higher risk for hospitalization for pneumonia, according to researchers in Canada.“Our study found that among older individuals, long-term [...]
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• Religion & Health (32)

  
  AnAtheist.Net — Authority: 424
  Or perhaps a better title would be “Religion Kills Again!” And as so often happens, it seems to be the very young who are most at risk…. Measles Kills Children Of Anti-Vaccination Sect (Jane Fields/The Scotsman; Dec 22) Children are dying of measles in a remote part of eastern Zimbabwe, where a ...
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• Smallpox in New York City, 1947

  
  virology blog — Authority: 492
  Millions of New Yorkers were immunized against smallpox within a few weeks in April 1947. The stimulus for this mass immunization was the importation of smallpox by a businessman who had acquired the disease during his travels. While we are in the middle of a massive influenza immunization campaign, it is useful to ...
  3 days ago

• The President Got His H1N1 Flu Shot and the Photo Proof is on Flickr

  
  Clinical Cases and Images - Blog — Authority: 136
  A White House nurse prepares to administer the H1N1 vaccine to President Barack Obama at the White House on Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009. (Official White House photo by Pete Souza) (public domain). The photo is from the official White House Flickr channel which provides an unprecedented access to photos of the President ...
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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• Study casts doubt on provocative tuberculosis theory

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 162
  Researchers fail to find that TB cells form spores and go dormantMAYWOOD, Ill. — The tuberculosis bacterium is an insidious germ that can lie dormant for many years, then suddenly [...]
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• Naturally occurring lipid blocks RSV infection in lungs

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 162
  Researchers at National Jewish Health have discovered that a naturally occurring lipid in the lung can prevent RSV infection and inhibit spread of the virus after an infection is established. [...]
  3 days ago

• Cold & Flu Remedies Confusing - Video

  
  PR News Wire — Authority: 869
  Many Cough Sufferers Report Diminished Quality of Life but Continue Work, School; American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Provide Guidance
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• Tragic H1N1 Flu Death Of University of North Carolina Freshman

  
  Better Health — Authority: 545
  If you think that the H1N1 pandemic is slowing down and have grown complacent with vaccination now that vaccines are more widely available, please learn something from last night’s tragic loss of local college student from Rhode Island, Lillian Chason: A University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student, who ...
  5 days ago

• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
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• Fear of lawsuits may prompt some doctors to overprescribe antibiotics

  
  emedist.com — Authority: 162
  Medical liability concerns may be playing a role in the increase of MRSA in health-care settings by encouraging clinicians to prescribe antibiotics more often and more broadly than clinical circumstances [...]
  6 days ago

• Overproduction of Th1 and Th17 Cytokines may be the Clue to why some H1N1 Patients get very ill

  
  Laika's MedLibLog — Authority: 415
  The present H1N1 influenza virus (nvH1N1, nv=new variant) behaves very differently from other influenza strains. The majority of nvH1N1 infections are mild and self-limiting in nature, but a small percentage of the patients require hospitalization and sometimes emergency care. Unlike the seasonal flu virus, the people ...
  1 week ago

• Transplant guide highlights daily infection risks from factors like pets and food

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 619
  Keeping pets healthy can reduce infection risks for people who have received solid organ transplants and veterinarians should be seen as an integral part of the healthcare team. Thats just one of the key pieces of advice from a safe living article published in an infectious diseases supplement in the American Journal ...
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• Santas reindeer quarantined over Lyme disease fears

  
  ACP Internist — Authority: 128
  North Pole reindeer have been quarantined following the discovery of ticks carrying Lyme diseases, bringing into question their availability on Dec. 24 and the possibility of causing a global Lyme disease pandemic should they cross international borders. Elves first found reindeer ticks on ...
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• 23andMe H1N1 Flu Survey: Share Your Experience

  
  The Spittoon — Authority: 417
  By now, you’re probably sick of hearing about the 2009 H1N1 flu, also known as the swine flu.  But if you believe you’ve had it, and you’ve already recovered from your symptoms, please take a few minutes to complete our new survey . There have been heard reports of people holding “swine flu parties” in ...
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