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Swine flu tally is 2,384 cases in 24 countries: WHO
Geneva/Stockholm - The World Health Organization increased Friday the number of...
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Seven Cases of Human Swine Flu Reported in the US
The number of people contracting swine flu is on the rise in the United States with the Centers for...
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Two Cases of Human Swine Flu Traced in California
Two kids in California got infected with swine flu in late March but they recovered, according to...
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Resistance to Popular Tamiflu Growing
Roche Holding AG’s Tamiflu appears inefficient in some people suffering from flu viruses...
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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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Flu Viruses Mutate, Become Resistant to Tamiflu
A recent government study showed that the influenza A viruses that resist the antiviral drug...
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Norovirus Massively Contacted on Cruise Ship
A Holland American cruise ship returned to San Diego from Mexico after more than 100 passengers...
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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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Deaths of Two Children from Flu – A Wakeup Call to Get Vaccinated
The recent deaths of two children in New York and Boston because of the flu underline once...
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Bacterial Meningitis Kills Second Soldiers at Missouri Base
Bacterial meningitis made a second victim among soldiers stationed at the Army’s Fort...
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HIV Gene Therapy Shows Optimistic Results
The first phase 2 gene therapy trial for treating HIV has shown some promising first results. The...
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Sequencing of Virus DNA May Help Scientists Find a Cure for Common Cold
Scientists are hoping to find a cure for the common cold and a new discovery brings them closer to...
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Scientists Decode Genetic Map of Cold Virus
Science moves one step closer to finding an effective treatment for the common cold, as University...
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No More Colds Thanks to New Gene Discovery
Researchers are reporting what could at least be a significant step in curing the common cold. They...
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Low Humidity Levels Can Favor the Spreading of Flu Germs
According to a new study by Oregon researchers, flu viruses are more easily transmitted from one...
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Laboratory Closed For Complete Inventory
It looks like army officials have suspended most research involving dangerous germs at the...
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First Case of Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever in the US Confirmed
A Colorado woman diagnosed with Marburg hemorrhagic fever has recovered, US health authorities...
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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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Can Animal Eggs Be Used to Create Embryonic Stem Cells?
A new study shows that animal eggs are not capable of reprogramming human DNA in the right way to...
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Flu Outbreak Expected This Winter! Single Anti-Flu Treatment Not Enough
This season it is recommended that doctors prescribe rimantidine along with Tamiflu because this...
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Stem Cell Research Moves Forward
As President Barack Obama is expected to lift federal restrictions on the field of stem cell...
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Rise in Hib Cases in Minnesota Makes CDC Officials Urge Vaccination
Five children were infected in Minnesota with a bacterial infection known as Hib: Haemophilus...
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Tamiflu-resistant Flu Strain Found in Salt Lake County
Health officials from the Salt Lake Valley Health Department have found a recently mutated strain...
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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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Flu Strain Resistant To Antiviral Treatment Found This Season
Physicians have found a recently mutated strain of flu that resists the most commonly...
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Bird Flu Makes More Victims: Vietnam Announces Second Human Case of Bird Flu
Health officials earlier this week confirmed Vietnam’s first human case of bird flu since...
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China Confirms Beijing Woman Died of Bird Flu
A Chinese woman has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus in Beijing, the World Health Organisation...
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Secrets Released About the 1918 Pandemic Flu
Researchers have recently discovered the cause which had led to the death of so many people...
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Genes Caused the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
Researchers found out the main cause of the deadly 1918 flu pandemic. Apparently, the main cause of...
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Health Authorities: US Flu Strain Resistant to Tamiflu
United States health authorities warned the population that the current strain of flu circulating...
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Conficker.c April 1 Activation Goes By Quietly
Fortunately, the activation of the Conficker.c worm on April 1 did not have catastrophic effects as...
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Male Circumcision May Prevent Two Common STDs
Male circumcision appears to offer more protection to men than previously estimated, according to...
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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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University of Pennsylvania on High Alert Over Meningitis Cases
University of Pennsylvania students are on high alert following three cases of meningococcal...
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Sleeping 7 Hours Or More Protects You From Common Cold
A new study suggests the connection between lack of sleep and common cold is stronger than...
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Holiday Myths Debunked By Science
Myths are common in all domains, but it seems like medicine has the bulk of them. You all must...
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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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Chrome Is Out Of Beta
The Internet is part of our lives for some quite some time, meaning that the tools we use for...
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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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Srizbi Botnet Is Back To Life
Srizbi is one of the biggest botnets on the Internet, being responsible for 75% of the spam mail...
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Fall-Born Babies More Likely to Develop Asthma
Babies who are born in autumn, four months before
the peak of winter virus season, have a higher...
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Fall Babies Have 30 Percent Higher Risk of Developing Asthma
Children born four months before peak flu season are more
likely to develop childhood asthma...
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Microsoft Details Malware Threat
Worldwide threats from malicious software that cripple computers
with spy programs, viruses and...
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Clickjacking Threat
The Internet is well known for the fact that it’s an excellent provider of information, or because...
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The Nobel Prize Rekindles 25 Years Old Controversy
On Monday, the
Nobel committee awarded the famous prize to Dr. Luc Montagnier, a...
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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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Officials Blame Norovirus for Georgetown University Illnesses
It appears that norovirus was responsible for sickening more
than 170 students at Georgetown
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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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U.S. Department of Justice Is Convinced Ivins Was The Anthrax Killer
According to new evidence released by the government, it seems that Bruce Ivins, the alleged...
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Gene Variant Could Raise Africans’ AIDS Risk
In an attempt to find an explanation for the high frequency
of AIDS cases within the world’s black...
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With 8 Million Copies Firefox 3 Achieves Its Desired Guinness World Record
Firefox 3 has entered today in the Guiness Book of World Records as the most downloaded software in...
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Trojan Horsie Messes With Mac OS X
Last week, SecureMac, the company that offers anti-spyware
solution for Macs, issued a warning on...
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Science
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Researchers Find Virus-Free Way Of Reprogramming Stem Cells
Stem cells have always been controversial, from ethical and biological point of view, but the...
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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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Scientists Decode Genetic Map Of Cold Virus
Science moves one step closer to finding an effective treatment for the common cold, as University...
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Study: Autumn Babies Are More Prone To Childhood Asthma
Are you afraid of having a child with
asthma? A new study suggests that the time of the year in...
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Nobel Medicine Prize Goes To Three European Scientists
The 2008 Nobel Prize
for medicine was awarded on Monday. Two French scientists who discovered...
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Update: Stem Cells Research Could Become Safer
Researchers took one more step toward so-called regenerative
medicine by developing a safer way of...
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Virus Found on Space Station Computers
This week, NASA confirmed that a virus has infected at least
one computer on the International...
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Cell Phone Study: We Never Stray Far From Home
We probably don’t know it, but
most of us stick with the “don’t stray far from home” idea for the...
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Scientists Map Worldwide Journey of Seasonal Flu
Scientists have finally solved a long-standing mystery of
where seasonal flu viruses originate and...
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First Cloned Human Embryos From Skin Cell DNA
US scientists at biotech company Stemagen Corporation in La Jolla, California, allege they made the...
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Lab Announces Breakthrough In Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Scientists at the Advanced Cell
Technology in Worcester, Massachusetts, announced on Thursday that...
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Stem Cells Created from Human Skin
Two research groups managed to obtain stem cells without the ethical problems posed by destroying...
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Scientists: IAPV May Be A Factor In Honey Bee Disorder
According to a report being published by the journal Science
the scientists discovered that a...
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Technology
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Windows 7 features you'll love
Washington - Windows 7 is coming to a PC near you - and faster than previously thought. Rumours are...
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China denies US cyber-spy allegations
Beijing - China on Thursday denied media reports that it was involved in an...
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MIT Researchers Develop Virus Batteries
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology managed to turn the concept of a battery...
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Conficker virus quiet on deadline day, but threat remains
San Francisco - Conficker, the April Fool's worm, began contacting pre-designated websites for...
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Mac Users Are Beginning to Put up With Viruses as Well
Mac security software maker Intego discovered last week the so called...
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Intego Announces Trojan Hidden In iWork ‘09
The Internet security firm Intego has just announced that it has discovered a new Trojan horse in...
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Microsoft Erases Vista Sin With Windows 7
One day of Windows 7 will make you feel like in heaven! This is the first impression the...
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Wolf in sheep's clothing: Scareware on the rise
Sometimes crooks disguise themselves as friends. That's exactly what's happening when you're...
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Guidelines For Your New Computer’s Workout
We all know that everybody is very excited when they buy a new computer. Without being...
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Apple Removes Article About Antivirus On Macs
Apple has removed an old item from its support site late Tuesday, one which advised Mac customers...
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Apple Briefly Posted Virus Warning, Subsequently Removed
Traditionally, one of the big selling points of Apple’s Mac
OS X, one that the company has not...
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Microsoft to Design Free Anti-Malware Program
Microsoft is planning to design a free anti-malware program that should help those who won’t or...
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Microsoft To Offer Anti-Malware Software Free Of Charge
PC security is one aspect that increasingly concerns
Microsoft, and as a proof of that, the...
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Microsoft Announces Free Anti-Malware Software
Microsoft has recently announced that it will offer free software in order to protect PCs from...
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Microsoft: While Trojans Invade U.S., China Fights Browser Exploits
Microsoft today released the fifth volume of its Security
Intelligence Report, providing insight...
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Windows 7 Will Deliver Enhanced Security, Reliability, Performance
When we think of an operating system, we inevitably tend to
think: Windows. Why? Because despite...
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Android G1 Too Has Application Killswitch
Well after back in August Apple reluctantly admitted to the
existence of an application “kill...
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Apple Pulls and Replaces Faulty Adapters
Although Macs seem to be the dream-computers, with no
viruses and no frozen screen, the same...
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With Fame Comes Malware! Celebrities Bad For Your PC
Eager to have your favorite star on your PC? You might want
to think it over before downloading...
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Update: Computer Virus Makes Extraterrestrial Landing On ISS Laptops
We all know what computer viruses are capable of these days,
but the latest manifestation of this...
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Update: Computer Virus Gammima Travels Into Space
It seems you can’t escape computer viruses not even on the
International Space Station. NASA...
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Facebook Wall Used as Malware Launching Pad
Facebook has quickly dealt with a malware attack launched using the social networking website's...
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CherryPal Mini-Desktop: Tiny Package, Small Consumption, Big Promises
What can we expect from a tiny paperback-sized desktop
computer? A lot, CherryPal promised, as it...
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Lenovo Brings IdeaCentre K210 Desktop PC To U.S.
Lenovo made a debut into the consumer desktop market “outside
of China” this week with the launch...
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Watch Out For Two New Mac Viruses
SecureMac and Intego Security released a warning this
weekend about the discovery of two Mac...
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Mozilla, Firefox 3.0 And 10 Million Downloads
It seems like the Firefox download frenzy is slowly fading
away, but Mozilla has some serious...
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Firefox 3: Are We Heading Towards a New Browser War?
Tomorrow, Mozilla will release the latest version of its
famous browser Firefox. After 34 months...
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Firefox 3 To Make Its Debut On Tuesday, June 17
The third version of the popular browser Firefox will be available
for download as soon as Tuesday...
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Beware of .hk Domains
McAfee, an antivirus and security company, has made public
its report on internet security for...
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Qtrax Plans Free P2P Music Sharing Service
Qtrax is the first online
file-sharing service that promised unrestricted access to over 25...
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