Scientists seeking to fight future pandemics have created a variety of “bird flu” potentially so dangerous that a federal advisory panel has for the first time asked two science journals to hold back on publishing details of research.
Dangerous: It is feared if new details of the avian flu is published, it could be used for bioterrorism
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Scientist responsible is bracing himself for a media storm
Just five tweaks to H5N1 makes it more contagious
Contagious version of bird flu could cause pandemic
Scientists divided over whether findings can be released
The homeless shelter that Occupy Atlanta protesters have been camping out in has been confirmed for housing two cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis. (credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
ATLANTA – The home base for Occupy Atlanta has tested positive for tuberculosis.
If you’re a strain of Salmonella, it’s a very good week. If you’re a human, not so much.
Karl Lauterbach, health spokesman for the opposition Social Democrats, has warned that some of those who have fallen ill in the E.coli epidemic could face severe health problems.
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Spanish farmers throw fruit and vegetables outside the German consulate in Valencia, Spain, to protest against the initial accusations by Hamburg authorities that Spanish cucumbers were the source of infection of the E. coli bacteria outbreak.
The strain of Escherichia coli bacteria responsible for an outbreak that has left 18 dead, sickened hundreds and sparked economic and diplomatic disruptions across Europe is a lethal strain that has never been behind a human outbreak and may be causing an unusually large number of severe illnesses, health officials said Thursday.
AFP – A slice of a German cucumber. Germany on Monday held crisis talks amid reports that at least 14 people …
BERLIN (AFP) – Germany on Monday held crisis talks amid reports that at least 14 people have died and hundreds are ill in an outbreak of a highly virulent strain of bacteria found on imported cucumbers.
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Aug. 25, 2010: Bed bug is found in a mattress at the home of Delores Stewart, in Columbus, Ohio. A resurgence of bedbugs across the U.S. has homeowners and apartment dwellers taking desperate measures to eradicate the tenacious bloodsuckers, with some relying on dangerous outdoor pesticides and fly-by-night exterminators.
Scientists in Canada have found MRSA in bedbugs from three hospital patients who live in a poverty-stricken Vancouver neighborhood.
David Livermore, director of the Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring & Reference Laboratory at the Health Protection Agency, holds a plate which was coated with the antibiotic-resistant bacteria called Klebsiella with a mutation called NDM 1 and then exposed to various antibiotics, in his laboratory in north London March 9, 2011.
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A gene that makes bugs highly resistant to almost all known antibiotics has been found in bacteria in water supplies in New Delhi used by local people for drinking, washing and cooking, scientists said on Thursday.
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The Swine flu virus that swept the world last year causing a global health emergency has returned to claim the lives of 10 adults in the UK in the past six weeks
H1N1 virus returns, already claiming lives of 10 British adults with early signs that illness has spread to other European countries
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