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WHO reports 1,658 confirmed cases of swine flu
Geneva - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday confirmed 1,658 cases of the new...
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WHO reports 1,516 confirmed cases of new flu
Geneva - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday confirmed 1,516 cases of the...
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WHO: 1,490 cases of new flu, 30 deaths, as scientists meet
Geneva - The World Health Organization held Tuesday an online conference of scientists from various...
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WHO confirms 1025 flu cases in 20 countries
Geneva - The World Health Organization confirmed Monday 1025 officially reported cases of influenza...
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WHO rejects criticism it acted too slowly on swine flu
Geneva - The World Health Organization Friday rejected criticism that it was too slow in reacting...
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WHO changes virus name, 257 confirmed cases
Geneva - The World Health Organization updated Thursday the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of...
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US swine flu numbers rise to 109
Washington - US officials said Thursday the US swine flu confirmed-case total had risen to 109, up...
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WHO: 154 Confirmed Cases of Swine Flu
The World Health Organization updated Thursday the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of swine...
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EU Health Agency Raises Number of Swine Flu Cases
Seven European countries had confirmed cases of people infected with swine flu as of Thursday...
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European pharma industry holds flu talks in Brussels
Brussels - Representatives of the European pharmaceutical industry Wednesday discussed their...
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Swiss Flu Drug Maker Roche Boosts Its Preparedness
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche announced Wednesday that it had increased its preparedness level...
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Swiss flu medicine producer Roche ups its preparedness
Geneva - Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche announced Wednesday that it had increased its...
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WHO: No need for travel, pork import restrictions
Geneva - World Health Organization officials reiterated Tuesday that travel restrictions would not...
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Swine Flu Death Rate Slowing Down
Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos said late Monday that number of people dying...
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Spain calls for calm after case of swine flu is confirmed
Madrid - The Spanish government on Monday called for calm after Europe's first case of swine flu...
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Swine Flu Spread Worries CDC Officials
Swine flu has turned into an epidemic in Mexico City where it has killed as many as 60 people and...
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3-year-old in Vietnam dies of bird flu
Hanoi - A 3-year-old Vietnamese boy has died of avian influenza after four...
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Boy in Vietnam tests positive for bird flu
Hanoi - A Vietnamese boy has tested positive for the avian influenza virus, the...
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Popular Flu Medicine Is No Longer Efficient Due to Mutations
Researchers reported Monday that Tamiflu-resistant influenza A viruses are now spreading widely...
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Scientists Make Astonishing Breakthrough in the Flight against Flu
Researchers at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in...
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Take Your Flu Vaccine Right Away!
Even if winter is in its last days, this doesn’t mean you should avoid taking the vaccine...
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UN Needs Another $11.3 Billion To Fight Against AIDS
The world needs to spend another 11.3 billion dollars to reach the goal of providing universal AIDS...
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More Hong Kong Birds Test Positive for H5N1
Three of the 21 dead birds that were recently discovered on Hong Kong’s shores tested...
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Scientists Announce Breakthrough in Flu Vaccine Development
A team of researchers working under Japan’s Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has...
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Hong Kong’s Government Does Not Want to Admit Bird Flu Outbreak
Hong Kong has not officially reported any cases of bird flu since December, but a Hong Kong...
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China Reports Its 4th Bird Flu Victim
Another Chinese woman has died of bird flu, the Health Ministry said Saturday. She is the...
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China Reports Another Bird Flu-Related Death
China's top health official has ordered stronger measures in order to prevent the spread of bird...
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Boy, 16, Dies of Bird Flu in China! Stronger Prevention and Supervision Programs Are Needed
A 16-year-old boy has died of bird flu in central China, becoming the third victim in China in...
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China Fears Bird Flu Could Kill Thousands During Lunar New Year
The bird flu is making new victims, this time in China. The Chinese Health Ministry said on its...
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Study Says Bird Flu Could Be Resistant To Drugs
Scientists doubt if anti-viral medication would have any effect in the case of a bird flu pandemic,...
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New Flu Vaccine Based on Human Antibodies May Come in Years
A new vaccine fighting several strains of the flu, including the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu,...
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Bird Flu Outbreak in China Raises Concern Over Human Transmission
Chinese authorities announced on Tuesday that they had begun destroying and vaccinating...
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Update: The Efficacy Of Hong Kong’s Bird Flu Vaccine Questioned
This week’s bird flu outbreak is the first
incident of this type on a Hong Kong farm
since 2003,...
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New Bird Flu Outbreak Reported In Hong Kong
Commonly known as the “bird flu” or “avian flu,” avian influenza is a type of influenza caused by...
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Bush's AIDS fight gets PEACE award; White House in red
Washington - As most Americans were beginning to think about hanging their Christmas decorations,...
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Bruni-Sarkozy to be ambassador in the fight against AIDS
Paris - France's First Lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, is to be named later Monday a special ambassador...
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People With AIDS In Indonesia Face Microchip Monitoring
People living with AIDS in Papua, Indonesia
may soon have a microchip implanted into their bodies...
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German, French Scientists Awarded Nobel Prize for Virus Discoveries
Stockholm - The finding of cervical cancer virus and the discovery of the human immunodeficiency...
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Number Of Americans Living With HIV Tops 1.1 Million, CDC Says
An estimated 1.1 million Americans have contracted the AIDS virus, the Centers for Disease Control...
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Virus hunters track HIV to 100 years back
Washington - A decades-old paraffin wax-encased block of tissue has added a curious chapter to the...
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Survivors of 1918 Flu Pandemic Still Immune
Although hard to believe antibodies from survivors of the most devastating 1918 influenza pandemic...
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AIDS Conference Ends with a Call to Fight Stigmatization
Participants at the 17th International AIDS Conference made
a call on the last day of the meeting...
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Activists Present AIDS Ads To Increase Pandemic Awareness
At the 17th International AIDS conference, held in the City of Mexico, a ‘planting and eating...
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AIDS Conference In Mexico Opened For Discussions
An estimated 25,000 scientists, politicians, physicians and
activists were present on Sunday at...
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AIDS Vaccine Trial Suspended
Plans for a large-scale human trial of a prospecting HIV
vaccine in the United States
were...
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World
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WHO says no evidence virus was a lab creation
Geneva - There is no evidence to support a theory that the new influenza A(H1N1) virus was created...
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Swine flu cases rise to over 50 in EU
Stockholm/Geneva - The number of confirmed cases of swine flu in the European Union went beyond 50...
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First suspected swine flu case in Lithuania
Vilnius - Lithuania's health authorities were awaiting the results of tests Thursday in what could...
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At swine flu epicentre, death toll climbs amid world alert
As the death toll climbed to 152 in Mexico, countries around the world took steps to warn the...
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Ban says UN on top of the battle against swine flu
New York - The United Nations has taken steps to lead the fight against the sudden outbreak...
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Red Cross readies volunteers for swine flu
Geneva - The International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) and Red Crescent Societies said it was...
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India sounds alert over swine-flu outbreak
New Delhi - Indian health authorities sounded an alert after an outbreak of a...
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Pope Benedict ends Africa trip following rousing Angola welcome
Luanda - Pope Benedict XVI left Africa on Monday after a week-long visit, which was marred at...
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Pope tells oil-rich Angola to tend to its poor
Luanda/Yaounde - Arriving in Angola on the second leg of his Africa trip, Pope Benedict XVI Friday...
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Benedict to push reconciliation on first Africa papal visit
Johannesburg - Four years after his ascension to the throne of St Peter, Pope Benedict XVI embarks...
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Chinese Woman Died of Bird Flu
The Chinese government announced on Tuesday that a 19-year-old teenager girl from Beijing died of...
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Beijing Woman Dies Of Bird Flu
A Chinese woman has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Beijing, the World Health Organisation...
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Baby girl hospitalized in Hong Kong with mild form of bird flu
The infant, who normally lives in Shenzhen in southern China, was diagnosed with the H9N2 strain of...
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Hong Kong steps up border checks to halt bird flu outbreak
Hong Kong - Customs officials were on Friday stepping up the number of random checks on vehicles...
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Indonesia confirms two new bird flu cases, death toll rises to 113
Jakarta - A 2-year-old Indonesian girl died from bird flu, raising the country's world-leading...
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Bird flu outbreak in India's Assam state, 40,000 poultry culled
New Delhi - Authorities in India's north-eastern Assam state culled 40,000 poultry of some 60,000...
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Bird Flu Makes Another Victim In Indonesia
A 19-year-old Indonesian man died from bird flu, raising the
country's world-leading death toll...
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Bird-Flu Strikes At Ukraine Poultry Farm
According to the Interfax news agency, 153 birds have died
from the H5N1 bird-flu virus, at the...
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