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HIV in the U.S. hits American blacks extra hard
Darkfrog submitted, created time 3 weeks 3 days (www.nytimes.com)
The CDC has released a report on the way HIV spreads in the United States. Again, American blacks are at disproportionately high risk. While caucasian gay and bisexual men tend to get infected int heir thirties and forties, black gay and bisexual men tend to get infected in their teens and twenties.
The writeup does not say whether they adjusted for socioeconomic factors, but they do assert that the infected blacks were no more likely to be drug users or to engage in risky sexual behaviors than their counterparts in other races 
A New View of Why Cholera Won't Go Away
jerry submitted, created time 1 month 2 weeks (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
The end of AIDS is nowhere in sight
sea-maid submitted, created time 2 months 2 days (www.nature.com)
The seventeenth annual AIDS conference opened in Mexico City last week. The consensus among the attendees seems to be that the failed vaccines, poorly targeted prevention measures and lack of fresh research talent all add up to years and years of HIV and AIDS in our future.
Is religion good for your health?
sea-maid submitted, created time 2 months 3 days (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
Consumption of high-fructose corn syrup in beverages may play a role in the epidemic of obesity
sea-maid submitted, created time 3 months 1 week (www.ajcn.org)
Obesity is a major epidemic, but its causes are still unclear. In this article, the author investigate the relation between the intake of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and the development of obesity.
Cell phone study reveals patterns of movement, disease
jerry submitted, created time 4 months 1 day (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
Some of us are homebodies, and some are jet setters. But a new study suggests that people, regardless of travel habits, follow the same general patterns of motion, spending the bulk of their time in a few favorite spots. The conclusions, obtained by tracking thousands of mobile phone users, could help researchers devise more accurate models of disease outbreaks.
Synthetic yeast to brew up vital malaria drug
jerry submitted, created time 4 months 2 days (www.newscientist.com)
A partly artificial organism could be producing enough of a key malaria drug to treat the world within three years...
jerry submitted, created time 4 months 2 weeks (www.time.com)
Parents worried that vaccines trigger autism are increasingly declining the shots for their kids. That's raising fears that long-dormant diseases could return. What the science says about the real risks—and what you should do.
China virus toll continues rise
sea-maid submitted, created time 5 months 1 day (news.bbc.co.uk)
According to this article, we know that the virus toll in China continues rise. EV71is highly contagious, causing fever, blisters in the mouth and a rash on the hands and feet. From this report, it is said that the outbreak emerged in Fuyang city in March, but was only reported in mid-April. The reason why there was a delay in the reporting at the provincial level was that they didn’t know what the causes for these different cases were.
China orders heightened efforts to stop deadly virus
kavin submitted, created time 5 months 3 days (hosted.ap.org)
Before long, the outbreak of enterovirus 71, a type of hand, foot and mouth disease that children are susceptible to in Fuyang city has been paid close attention to, which is another headache for the communist government as it prepares for the Beijing Olympics already tarnished by an uprising among Tibetans and an international torch relay disrupted by protests. And China's Health Ministry ordered heightened efforts to stem the spread of infectious diseases Saturday following an outbreak of a virus
jane2007 submitted, created time 5 months 2 weeks (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.
Challenges to HIV Prevention — Seeking Effective Measures in the Absence of a Vaccine
davidd submitted, created time 5 months 3 weeks (content.nejm.org)
Some estimates suggest that in the 15 to 20 years it may take to develop and evaluate a highly efficacious vaccine, when the world will face 20 million to 60 million new HIV infectors. Finding effective nonvaccine approaches to HIV prevention is essential.
jane2007 submitted, created time 7 months 1 week (www.nature.com)
Malaria map brings good news: 1 billion of them live in zones where transmission is so low that the disease should be easy to bring under control, or even eradicate.
How to Stop the Spread of Infectious Disease ?
Sue Wu submitted, created time 7 months 2 weeks (medheadlines.com)
For the first time ever, an international team of researchers has mapped out the areas around the world where infectious diseases, passed from animals to humans, have originated. Using data that dates back to the early 1940s, the study concludes that diseases that originate in animals, called zoonoses, are the biggest threat to humans today.
Disease monitors "looking in the wrong places"
jane2007 submitted, created time 7 months 2 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.
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