THE virus that has claimed three lives has been identified as a rodent-borne arenavirus, a type of the Lassa fever virus endemic to West Africa. This was announced yesterday after the eagerly awaited results of tests conducted at the US Centres for ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A global AIDS vaccine conference this week will seek fresh strategies against the HIV virus, with experts weighing the value of basic laboratory research against large-scale human clinical trials after a string of ...
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Associated Press Writer= JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates ...
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Johannesburg - The mystery viral haemorrhagic fever which killed three people in South Africa has been provisionally identified as an arenavirus, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases and the Department of Health said on Sunday. "The ...
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The ultra-realistic pages are created with a software kit currently being spread through hacker websites, the Associated Press reported. When surfers find the page - for example, by clicking on a link in an email - it tells them they must install new ...
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JOHANNESBURG - A disease that has killed three people in South Africa and forced others into isolation wards may be rodent borne, a health official said Sunday, SAPA news agency reported. All three have died from external and internal bleeding. The ...
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One HIV-positive blood donation will slip through every 5,769 years. When I was a student, I went along with a group of my friends to give blood, clutching my arm nervously. All summer, increasingly desperate adverts had been warning that NHS blood ...
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