Posts Tagged ‘virus’

Avian flu: WHO urges Asian countries to use international laboratories

March 19th, 2010 | Tags: , , ,
Asian countries affected by the recent resurgence of avian influenza should immediately resort to international laboratories to analyze the virus, was launched Saturday the World Health Organization (WHO).
must pass the virus to the examination to see if this is a continuation of the major events of the epidemic that occurred earlier this year or if [...]

The virus H5N1de the highly pathogenic avian influenza is endemic in East Asia

March 17th, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
The H5N1 bird flu pandemic potential, has become endemic in East Asia and will not be easily eradicated, experts said at the end of four years of research.
Dr. Guan Yi of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Hong Kong, China, interviewed Thursday by the Xinhua News Agency, suggested that his research team who [...]

Discovery of a deadly virus in Australia

January 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , ,
Australian health authorities are concerned about the emergence of a new virus resistant to antibiotics, which killed at least one man and infected 50 others, said Monday’s newspaper “The Australian”.
virus close staph should be transmitted through cuts on the skin, were supposed experts in infectious diseases, adding that healthy people could be infected with viruses.
An [...]

Scientists discover new modes of transmission of SARS

December 6th, 2009 | Tags: , , , ,
In addition to the respiratory tract, the virus of atypical pneumonia can be transmitted through infected food, contaminated water, mucus, urine, feces or sweat of the patient, said recently a group of researchers at the University No. 1 military medicine in Guangdong (southern China).
The same discovery was made also by their Dutch counterparts at the [...]