Plague a growing but overlooked threat: study
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Plague, the disease that devastated medieval Europe, is re-emerging worldwide and poses a growing but overlooked threat, researchers warned on Tuesday.
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Scores of infectious diseases have emerged to threaten humans in the past decades as viruses leap the species barrier from wild animals and bacteria mutate into antibiotic-resistant strains, scientists reported on Wednesday.
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Heightened fears that potentially devastating livestock disease is spreading.
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LOS ANGELES - Hispanics are exposed to more environmental health threats on average than the rest of the population, according to a report released Wednesday by an environmental group.
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Science & environment: Project will give unprecedented insight into why some people are more susceptible to disease than others
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Scientists have found evidence of a peril that human ancestors encountered in their migrations out of Africa: tuberculosis.
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The avian influenza virus known as H5N1 has killed millions of poultry in east Asia. Now researchers fear it may be tougher and more dangerous to humans than previously suspected.
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A case of bird flu in Thailand sparks fears of human to human transmission.
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The threat from biological weapons has outstripped that of chemical and nuclear weapons because of advances in biotechnology, the respected British Medical Association (BMA) warned in a report published.
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A global influenza pandemic isn&#39;t something that most people think about on a day-to-day basis. But it could soon become front-page news, if the fears of the World Health Organization are realized.
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The continued spread of the Ebola virus, along with hunting, could wipe out the species, researchers said.
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Wide-open spaces, technological glitches and bitter cold all are potential obstacles to plans to track livestock and protect the food supply from disease and bioterrorism.
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A study suggests that a virulent drug-resistant bacterium spreading in hospitals and nursing homes may be twice as common as once thought.
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The outbreak that struck a family in Indonesia may have been more dangerous than originally believed, a new report says
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HALIFAX -- The buzzing. The biting. You&#39;d think there were already enough insects in the world to drive you buggy. However, a team of researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax announced yesterday it had
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Scientists are now eyeing dust clouds as possible suspects in transcontinental spread of diseases.
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Human skin teems with a zoo of strange microbes in colonies that are nearly unique from person to person and many of which are practically unknown to science, new research finds. Some of the bugs are permanent residents, while others come and go.