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A New View of Why Cholera Won't Go Away
jerry submitted, created time 3 months 2 days (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
Cholera first infected humans in the early 19th century in Bengal, a region that straddles what is now the border between Bangladesh and India, and the bacterial disease still sweeps through the area regularly. After sifting through historical records of cholera deaths in Bengal, a team of scientists in the United States and Europe proposes a new explanation for these repeated outbreaks, suggesting that immunity to cholera wanes more rapidly than thought and that many more people than believed become infected without exhibiting symptoms 
Is religion good for your health?
sea-maid submitted, created time 3 months 2 weeks (www.nature.com)
Science and religion, anyone? Come now, stifle those yawns. A paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B1 this week claims to offer a fresh perspective, with the startling suggestion that religion is a way to protect us from disease.
The general idea behind this theory — that religion is mainly a social construct — is actually much older than the authors, Corey Fincher and Randy Thornhill of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, acknowledge
Coinfection of tuberculosis and HIV poses global threat
sea-maid submitted, created time 5 months 6 days (www.bmj.com)
The interaction between the twin pandemics of HIV and TB could soon become a "threat to global health security," particularly with the emergence of almost untreatable strains of TB, experts at a United Nations forum have said.
Synthetic yeast to brew up vital malaria drug
jerry submitted, created time 5 months 2 weeks (www.newscientist.com)
A partly artificial organism could be producing enough of a key malaria drug to treat the world within three years...
Searching for a better mosquito repellent
sea-maid submitted, created time 5 months 2 weeks (www.pnas.org)
Most people in hot places--or even just hot weather--are troubled by mosquitos. What is an annoyance in some parts of the world, however, can be fatal in others. In this stuty, the scientists point out that it is necessary to search for more effective repellents, one of which is introduced in this article, lasting a record 85 days!
jane2007 submitted, created time 7 months 2 days (www.nature.com)
Each year, officials struggle to predict which strains of flu will spread globally, killing up to 500,000. This year, the breeding ground for new influenza strains is centered in East and Southeast Asia.
U.S. government reshuffles budgets to fund second-draft AIDS vaccine
Darkfrog submitted, created time 7 months 3 weeks (www.nytimes.com)
After the failure of a few months back, the AIDS Health Care Foundation called for the suspension of further vaccine efforts, saying that the funds would be better spent on AIDS education and prevention. That proposal has been rejected. We are sallying forth with a new attempt at a vaccine.
I think that this is the right thing to do, so long as we proceed with caution and duly inform every human participant of all risks. Agendum # 1 ought to be finding out what went wrong with the first vaccine.
davidd submitted, created time 8 months 3 weeks (www.nature.com)
Zambia sees nearly four million cases of malaria diagnosed each year, and some 50,000 deaths, mostly among children. Two years ago, its Ministry of Health embarked on an ambitious plan to cut the incidence of malaria by 75%. They developed a efficient strategy which may spread in their neighbor countries successfully.
Drug-resistant tuberculosis plagues the former U.S.S.R.
Darkfrog submitted, created time 8 months 3 weeks (www.nytimes.com)
In 1994, experts believed that drug-resistant TB would not become a mainstream problem, that it would be restricted to immunosuppressed patients. It's in the world, though, and we have to deal with it.
Strains of tuberculosis resistant to first-line drugs are increasing in prevalence in the countries that once comprised the Soviet Union. The antibiotics to correct are one hundred times more expensive than standard and must be taken for two years.
Disease monitors "looking in the wrong places"
jane2007 submitted, created time 8 months 4 weeks (www.nature.com)
The world's health watchdogs are looking in the wrong places for the next dangerous epidemics, according to an analysis of global trends in emerging disease outbreaks over the past few decades. Health leaders need global strategy for spotting disease threats.
Sue Wu submitted, created time 8 months 4 weeks (www.reuters.com)
Thousands of Paraguayans blocked highways and banged on the doors of health centers on Tuesday, demanding vaccines after four people died in the first outbreak of yellow fever in 30 years in this South American nation.
Deadly Microbes from Outer Space
Sue Wu submitted, created time 9 months 1 week (discovermagazine.com)
For astronauts toiling in the close quarters of the International Space Station or on a shuttle to Mars, an ordinary germ would be risky enough. But a recent experiment published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has shown that a microbe can turn even more dangerous in space than on Earth.
Male circumcision has limited effect on curtailing AIDS
Darkfrog submitted, created time 9 months 2 weeks (www.nytimes.com)
It had been thought that the voluntary circumcision of adult men would slow the spread of AIDS there, but it has since been confirmed that their female partners are no less likely to contract AIDS from a circumcised man than from an uncircumcised one and are more likely to do so if the man is not fully healed from the procedure. However, the same studies reveal that circumcision reduces the rate of other communicable ailments in men.
davidd submitted, created time 9 months 2 weeks (www.pnas.org)
The pandemic influenza of 1918 (Spanish flu) killed 21–50 million people globally, including in Iceland, where the characteristics and spread of the epidemic were well documented. It has been postulated that genetic host factors may have contributed to this high mortality. They identified 455 individuals who died of the Spanish flu in Iceland during a 6-week period during the winter of 1918, representing >92% of all fatal domestic cases mentioned by historical accounts.
DanyC submitted, created time 10 months 3 days (www.theregister.co.uk)
"Although the number of human cases of plague is relatively low, it would be a mistake to overlook its threat to humanity, because of the disease's inherent communicability, rapid spread, rapid clinical course, and high mortality if left untreated."
Now,infected fleas may still anywhere.We should care about environment nearby, daily food and ourselves.
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