Virus News
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Washington -
An American doctor who has contracted the dangerous Ebola virus in Liberia is "weak and quite ill," a colleague of his told AFP on Tuesday.
In the Media
by Kerry Sheridan (AFP)
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Researchers detect traces of the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus in the air of a barn housing an infected camel.
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Atlanta -
A high-security tuberculosis lab at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is to return to transferring hazardous materials.
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During the 2013 flu season a new report highlights that antibiotics were inappropriately given to a large proportion of patients with influenza (a viral disease that is not helped by taking antibiotics).
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Miami -
A Florida man has become the first U.S. resident who has not recently traveled outside the country to be diagnosed with an infection from the mosquito-borne virus chikungunya.
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Bethesda -
The FDA, just days after announcing that it had found decades-old vials of smallpox—inside a storage facility it owned, has announced that the deadly virus wasn't the only dangerous substance it found during a clean out of the facility last month.
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The U.N. health agency has reported about 50 new Ebola cases in Sierra Leone and Liberia. The disease, among the deadliest in the world, continues to spread across West Africa.
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Bethesda -
Government workers cleaning out an old storage room at a research center near Washington have found decades-old vials of smallpox packed away and forgotten in a cardboard box.
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Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) infections result in one of the most costly diseases among cattle with losses in U.S. herds estimated at $2 billion per year. Scientists are investigating how cows can be protected from the disease.
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Mumbai -
Newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi has declared that India will provide four new vaccines free of cost as part of a “program to reduce child mortality.”
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Fairfield -
Health officials in the San Francisco Bay Area county of Solano confirmed last week that a resident had contracted West Nile virus.
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Los Angeles -
Some health professionals are recommending that all teens and adults who are high risk for hepatitis B get screened for the infection. A simple blood test can detect if a person is one of the 2 billion people worldwide infected with hepatitis B.
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Paris -
As chikungunya virus spreads across the Caribbean, scientists are attempting to work out the virus’s next steps and understand its partnership with mosquitoes.
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Dakar -
An epidemic of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa is now "out of control" with more than 60 outbreak hotspots, the medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said.
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Scientists have mapped regions in Asia with the highest risk for transmission and infection of bird flu (of the type H7N9).
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The deadly virus polio has started to make appearances in certain countries. The World Health Organization has warned that polio is now a 'public health emergency'. Scientists are looking at new ways to combat the disease.
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Geneva -
The death toll in west Africa's three-nation Ebola outbreak has risen to 337, the World Health Organisation said Wednesday, making it the deadliest ever outbreak of the haemorrhagic fever.
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Geneva -
The death toll in west Africa's three-nation Ebola outbreak has risen to 337, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, making it the deadliest ever outbreak of the haemorrhagic fever.
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Miami -
The Florida Department of Health recently announced that 24 cases of dengue fever have been reported. All 24 patients had recently traveled to the Caribbean or South America, acquiring the virus abroad and returning home to Florida.
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A widely reported connection between a man who died from MERS and a camel that he owned might not be so. There is a possibility that laboratory contamination occurred.
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Researchers in Saudi Arabia have detected, isolated, and sequenced Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) from a camel that matched the virus derived from the animal’s owner.
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Mecca -
Muslim pilgrims from around the world are pouring into the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, undeterred by the spread of the MERS virus which has killed 284 people in the kingdom.
In the Media
by Abdel Hadi AL-HABTOOR (AFP)
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Geneva -
The World Health Organization (WHO) has again postponed its decision whether to destroy the world’s remaining stocks of smallpox virus.
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Further blood tests indicate that an Illinois resident who came into close contact with an Indiana MERS patient did not contract the virus. This contradicts a previous announcement.
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Chicago -
An Illinois man has contracted the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus from the Indiana patient who was recently hospitalized. This is the first confirmed human-to-human transmission of MERS within the U.S.
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London -
Gareth Williams, a medical doctor, has said that the smallpox virus is no longer necessary for research purposes and could pose a significant threat were it to escape the confines of the lab. He has called for all remaining stocks to be destroyed.
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Sir Paul McCartney, singer for The Beatles, Wings and a solo artist, is expected to fully recover from a virus that caused him to cancel some tour dates.
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The selection of antivirus software can be overwhelming, but this guide explains the specs of the top 10 Windows-friendly software packages, according to data compiled by Find the Best.
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Fairfield -
Evidence of West Nile virus has been found for the first time this year in Northern California's Solano County, signaling the start of the mosquito-borne virus season.
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Tokyo -
Former Beatle, Sir Paul McCartney has been hit by illness and has to regrettably cancel his upcoming tour in Japan, where he has an almost cult-like following. According to tour organizers, 71-year-old McCartney has contracted a virus.
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Virus Image
: Cynthia Goldsmith
This (Pseudocolored) negative-stained (false-colored) transmission electron micrograph (TEM) depicts the ultrastructural details of an influenza virus particle, or “virion”. A member of the taxonomic family Orthomyxoviridae, the influenza virus is a single-stranded RNA organism
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Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of the Avian Flu Virus
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Center for Disease Control
This electron micrograph depicts the vesiculovirus responsible for vesicular stomatitis (VS) in horses, cattle and pigs. As a member of the Rhabdoviridae family of viruses, you’ll note the morphologic similarity, i.e., bullet-shaped virion, between this vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), and the rabies virus.
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IGS CNRS-AMU
Electron microscopy image of a Pandoravirus particle
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Admin
Hex dump of the Blaster virus, showing a message left for Microsoft CEO Bill Gates by the virus programmer
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Computer Virus.
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Mycobacteriophage Database/Phagesdb.org
The bacteriophage (bacteria-infecting virus) Czyszczon1 was discovered by Purdue student Emilia Czyszczon in a Bedford, Indiana cave.
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Ed and Lex
A man using notebook computer
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Dr. Karp
A photomicrograph of skeletal muscle tissue revealing myotonic dystrophic changes as a result of Polio
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Health Protection Agency
A molecular image of the norovirus
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C. Goldsmith
Scanning electron micrograph of HIV-1 budding (in green)
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Zibosky, China
H7N9 virus (computer aided illustration)
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Russell Knighley
HIV virus particle
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Wade Rockett
Sign affixed to a restroom mirror at the Microsoft campus, Building 19.
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Virus
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Luke Jerram
Glass representation of the bacteriophage virus by Luke Jerram
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Sky
Computer reconstruction of the Ebola virus
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Solano health officials regularly check mosquitoes for West Nile virus, as witj this trap set on First Street in Benicia, the county's oldest city.
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Cynthia Goldsmith
Colorized transmission electron micrograph of Avian influenza A H5N1 viruses
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