http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress)—UNSW researchers have discovered a new strain of norovirus that they warn could cause a severe epidemic of acute gastroenteritis in Australia this winter. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-norovirus-strain-severe-gastro-epidemic.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 15 Jan 2013 07:26:21 EST news277457172 The author of a paper on a mutant bird flu strain said Monday that experts agreed to publish it only after he explained that the virus was "much less lethal" than previously feared. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-mutant-bird-flu-lethal-paper.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 03 Apr 2012 04:10:01 EST news252644202 The author of an upcoming Nature paper about H5N1 argues in a Nature Comment article today that research into deadly pathogenic viruses must continue if pandemics are to be prevented. Yoshihiro Kawaoka suggests, after reviewing many factors, that pursuing studies of highly pathogenic viruses must be done with urgency. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-flu-transmission-urgent-nature-comment.html Medical research Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:14:36 EST news246730461 World health ministers said Friday they were being vigilant after a Dutch laboratory developed a mutant version of the deadly bird flu virus that is for the first time contagious among humans. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-world-vigilant-dutch-lab-mutates.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:39:54 EST news242681974