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- Suffering Stoner fastest in Czech practice
- BRNO, Czech Republic AFP — Reigning world champion Casey Stoner clocked up the fastest time in free practice ahead of Sunday's Czech Republic Grand Prix, despite suffering from a mystery illness. The Australian posted a time of 1min 57.231sec, which was 0.179sec in front of Yamaha rider Valentino Rossi...
- Research articles 2008-08-15
- Greek ostriches, cattle to be inspected after woman dies from tick bite
- ATHENS AFP — Greece on Thursday said it would run health inspections on ostrich farms and cattle in the north of the country after a woman died from a tick-borne haemorrhagic fever. The Greek agriculture ministry ordered the check after the 49-year-old woman, a resident of Rhodope prefecture near...
- Research articles 2008-07-03
- Four die of haemorrhagic fever in southern Russia: report
- MOSCOW AFP — Four people have died in an outbreak of haemorrhagic fever and 39 others have come down with the illness in the Stavropol region of southern Russia, local authorities reported Wednesday. The fatalities were two men and two women, regional health official Irina Kovalchuk told Interfax news...
- Research articles 2008-06-25
- Dutch Orange craze reaches fever pitch
- THE HAGUE AFP — As Orange fever rises with every goal scored in the Dutch team's Euro 2008 campaign, lawyers, housewives and school kids become crazed wig-wearing fans adorning their homes, bikes and even their pets in the national colour. Normally sedate suburban streets have been transformed into massive...
- Research articles 2008-06-20
- Dirty Harry meets Indiana Jones as Cannes catches festival fever
- CANNES, France AFP — Hollywood heavyweights Clint Eastwood and Harrison Ford squared up against kung fu pandas and arthouse directors as Cannes on Wednesday caught its annual dose of film festival fever. Ford, advancing in years but still cracking a bullwhip, was due to fly in to the planet's...
- Research articles 2008-05-13
- Dengue cases in Philippines rise by 34 percent: government
- MANILA AFP — The Philippines recorded 9,176 cases of dengue fever nationwide from January 1 to April 5 this year, an increase of almost 34 percent over the same period last year, the health department said Saturday. Deaths due to dengue fever reached 108 in the year to April...
- Research articles 2008-05-10
- ADDED FUNDS TO FIGHT FEVER TICKS APPLAUDED
- "TSCRA applauds the decision of the USDA to make an additional $5.2 million available in the fight against cattle fever ticks," said Jon Means, TSCRA president. "USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's decision to make additional funds available will help provide more resources in the fight against fever tick...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- Effect of Diets Varying in Dietary Cation-Anion Difference Fed in Late Gestation and in Lactation on Sow Productivity1, The
- ABSTRACT Eighty-six primiparous or multiparous sows and their pigs were used to evaluate the effects of changing DCAD in late gestation and in lactation on sow productivity. Sows were allotted to treatment based on parity and their farrowing date. Experiment 1 was a preliminary experiment conducted to determine the level...
- Research articles 2008-04-30
- Report shows Australian Aborigines' health 'shameful': minister
- SYDNEY AFP — A report showing high levels of preventable diseases such as rheumatic fever in Australian Aboriginal communities is a "shameful indictment", the country's indigenous affairs minister said Tuesday. The official snapshot of Aboriginal health showed "frustratingly slow" progress in trying to improve the health of the original...
- Research articles 2008-04-29
- Brazil dengue outbreak highlights health system failings
- RIO DE JANEIRO AFP — A dengue epidemic sweeping Brazil's state of Rio de Janeiro since the beginning of this year has cast a harsh spotlight on the pitiful situation in public hospitals, where doctors are lacking and lines are long. Since the beginning of January, 67 people have...
- Research articles 2008-04-04
- Brazil battles deadly dengue epidemic in Rio
- RIO DE JANEIRO AFP — Brazilian authorities are taking emergency measures in Rio de Janeiro to fight a dengue fever outbreak that has killed 54 people and infected more than 43,000 across the state. Health officials said the city of Rio -- the country's prime tourist destination -- was...
- Research articles 2008-03-27
- US biologists shed light on how deadly virus becomes infectious
- CHICAGO AFP — Biologists have mapped how a deadly class of viruses including dengue, West Nile, yellow fever and encephalitis become infectious in a pair of studies published in the journal Science. "This is possibly the most detailed understanding of how any virus matures," said study author Michael Rossmann...
- Research articles 2008-03-27
- Brazil takes action as dengue fever death toll hits 47
- RIO DE JANEIRO AFP — Brazilian authorities have started a crisis center to deal with a dengue fever outbreak in the state of Rio de Janeiro that has so far this year claimed 47 lives. Health Minister Jose Gomes Temporao said Thursday the army was being mobilized to cope...
- Research articles 2008-03-20
- Thailand warns of rise in dengue fever
- BANGKOK AFP — A top Thai health official Friday warned of a surge in dengue fever after the mosquito-borne disease killed six people and infected nearly 6,000 this year. "It is likely that dengue fever will be more severe this year than last year," Thawat Suntrajarn, director-general of the...
- Research articles 2008-03-13
- Paraguay reports seven cases of yellow fever: WHO
- GENEVA AFP — Seven cases of yellow fever have been confirmed and another four suspected in Paraguay, following an outbreak in nearby Brazil, the World Health Organisation announced Wednesday. Seven people in the jungle of Paraguay's San Pedro region have contracted the virus, while another four in the town...
- Research articles 2008-02-20
- Lassa fever kills 200 in Sierra Leone each year: minister
- FREETOWN AFP — Medical and aid officials in Sierra Leone are preparing for an anticipated outbreak of Lassa fever, a disease that claims about 200 lives every year, Health Minister Soccoh Kabia said Thursday. The viral infection "is endemic over this period in the eastern district of the country",...
- Research articles 2008-01-17
- Incurable dengue disease could spread in US: researchers
- WASHINGTON AFP — Incurable, mosquito-borne dengue disease could spread from subtropical areas into the United States through global warming, requiring greater efforts to combat it, health authorities said in commentary out Tuesday. "Widespread appearance of dengue in the continental United States is a real possibility," said National Institute of...
- Research articles 2008-01-08
- Uganda Ebola outbreak: a survivor's tale
- KAMPALA AFP — Stephen Kaddu Ssesanga talks in staccato bursts, as if he were still in the throes of the Ebola virus he contracted while trying to treat the victims of a deadly outbreak in western Uganda. But speaking from his home in Bundibugyo, the epicentre of an epidemic...
- Research articles 2007-12-16
- Dengue cases up in the Philippines: official
- MANILA AFP — The Philippines has recorded nearly 40,000 cases of dengue fever in the first 11 months of the year, the health department said Thursday. The number of cases for the 11 months had risen 11.7 percent over the same period last year to 37,538, said the department's...
- Research articles 2007-12-06
- Uganda's Ebola outbreak is new strain: ministry
- KAMPALA AFP — A lethal Ebola virus that has killed at least 16 people and infected 51 others in western Uganda is a previously unknown strain, health authorities said Friday. Analysis on victims' blood and tissue samples sent to the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control's pathogens laboratory behaved differently...
- Research articles 2007-11-30
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