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A deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS has apparently spread from patients to health care workers in eastern Saudi Arabia, health officials said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-saudi-health-workers-sickened-sars-like.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 16 May 2013 03:25:10 EST news287893501 The World Health Organisation on Monday called on people in France, where two confirmed cases of the new SARS-like virus were recorded at the weekend, to stay calm and not overburden hospitals for fear of the deadly virus to allow for proper treatment of those actually infected. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-france-calm-sars-like-virus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 14 May 2013 04:40:30 EST news287725215 A seven-year-old girl who contracted the H7N9 strain of bird flu left hospital on Wednesday and appeared before media in an apparent bid by health authorities to cool concerns about the deadly virus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-beijing-h7n9-bird-flu-victim.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:06:15 EST news285404768 A mutated bird flu virus that has killed six people in China displays worrying traits that warrant high vigilance, experts say, though the true extent of the threat is unclear. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-h7n9-bird-flu-strain-traits.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:00:01 EST news284380492 A five-year-old Cambodian girl has died from bird flu, bringing the country's toll from the deadly virus to five so far this year, the World Health Organization said on Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-bird-flu-cambodian-victim-year.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 08 Feb 2013 04:30:01 EST news279518859 Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have discovered a trigger by which the Hepatitis C virus enters liver cells ─ shedding light on how this serious and potentially deadly virus can begin to damage the liver. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-clue-hepatitis-virus-liver.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:28:38 EST news274526909 Twenty-five countries, many in hard-hit Africa, have at least halved new HIV infections in the past decade, with particular progress made toward protecting children from the deadly virus, the United Nations said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-hails-sharp-decline-hiv-infections.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 20 Nov 2012 10:00:01 EST news272627063 In 2010, 35 people in Greece died from a West Nile virus (WNV) outbreak, with a further 262 laboratory-confirmed human cases. A new article published in BioMedCentral's open access journal Virology Journal examines whether wild or migratory birds could have been responsible for importing and amplifying the deadly virus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-wild-birds-deadly-west-nile.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:00:01 EST news271871413 (AP)—Health officials are set to draw blood from hundreds of Yosemite National Park employees as part of a research project that aims to help scientists better understand a potentially deadly virus carried by deer mice that killed three park visitors and sickened six others this summer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-blood-yosemite-workers-advance.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:24:10 EST news269619838 Canada's Supreme Court on Friday decriminalized the non-disclosure of HIV status prior to sex where no realistic possibility of transmitting the potentially deadly virus exists. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-canada-high-court-lowers-bar.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:50:01 EST news268655541 A huge vaccination campaign to protect 50 million people against meningitis has been launched in seven African countries aiming to stamp out the deadly virus, health officials said Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-vaccines-ready-million-africa-meningitis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 04 Oct 2012 08:50:01 EST news268557701 Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have determined the structure of a critical protein from the Marburg virus, a close cousin of Ebola virus. These viruses cause similar diseases and are some of the deadliest pathogens on the planet, each killing up to 90 percent of those infected. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-scientists-reveal-deadly-marburg-virus.html Medical research Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:00:09 EST news266763744 The deadly virus raising fears at California's Yosemite National Park does not spread easily, and, despite two recent deaths, does not warrant closing the park, a spokeswoman said Monday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-yosemite-virus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 04 Sep 2012 04:00:04 EST news265949279 Some 10,000 visitors to California's Yosemite National Park could have been exposed to a deadly virus that kills one in three victims and cannot be treated, officials said Friday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-yosemite-tourists-deadly-virus.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 01 Sep 2012 04:50:01 EST news265692447 Indonesia on Friday reported its second human death from bird flu this year, with the death of a five-year-old girl who recently lost her relative to the deadly virus. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-indonesia-bird-flu-death-year.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:40:02 EST news246254824 On August 26, 1976, a time bomb exploded in Yambuku, a remote village in Zaire, (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). A threadlike virus known as Ebola had emerged, soon earning a grim distinction as one of the most lethal, naturally occurring pathogens on earth, killing up to 90 percent of its victims, and producing a terrifying constellation of symptoms known as hemorrhagic fever. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-vaccine-ebola.html Medical research Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:00:05 EST news242315665 A collaborative research team from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) and Galveston National Laboratory (GNL), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML), and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), reports a breakthrough in the development of an effective therapy against a deadly virus, Hendra virus. The results of their research appear in Science Translational Medicine today. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-major-advance-treatment-hendra-virus.html Medical research Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:00:02 EST news238247944 More than 150 cases of measles have been reported in the United States already this year and there have been similar outbreaks in Europe, a sign the disease is making an alarming comeback. The reappearance of the potentially deadly virus is the result of unfounded fears about a link between the measles shot and autism that have turned some parents against childhood vaccination, says Gregory Poland, M.D., of Mayo Clinic. In the September issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings (http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com), Dr. Poland urges doctors to review extensive scientific research that has found no connection between the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-mayo-clinic-physician-mistaken-measles.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:42:53 EST news233923345