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Thailand confirmed its second death from bird flu Tuesday, and said the fatal case might have been transmitted by a human victim rather than a bird, according to published report.
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THURSDAY, Aug. 19 (HealthDayNews) -- US health officials acknowledged Thursday the very slight possibility that West Nile virus may have been transmitted through dialysis last summer.
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Prehistoric humans were infected with a bug that causes stomach ulcers, a study has shown.
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Doctors have identified a highly contagious virus as the likely cause of an outbreak that left more than 100 teenagers in Md. violently ill over the weekend.
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Geneva - The World Health Organisation on Tuesday confirmed that it was examining a &quot;probable&quot; first full case of human-to-human transmission of bird flu in Thailand.
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Sperm could help explain how diseases like cancer and HIV spread through the body, a study  suggests.
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A rare and potentially serious sexually transmitted disease has turned up in a few patients in San Francisco, prompting health officials to issue a public warning.
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Sep 24, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - United Kingdom health officials this week began telling several thousand Britons they may face a slightly increased risk of contracting variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) because they received blood products from
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The eight individuals in Pakistan who are suspected to have bird flu probably have a combination of infections from poultry and limited person-to-person transmission from close contact, a top World Health Organization expert said on Tuesday. Keiji Fukuda, coordinator of WHO's global influenza program, said while unconfirmed, any human-to-human spread seemed similar to previous outbreaks in Thailand and Indonesia -- affecting close family members caring for sick loved ones.
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Thousands of people are to be told they may have been exposed to vCJD through contaminated blood products.
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A recent study by researchers from the Bristol University was published in the journal Thorax. The report is likely to cause an alarm among pregnant women and mothers of newly born.
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Young adults who don't know whether or not their new partner is having sex with other people appear to at higher risk of sexually transmitted diseases, new research reports.
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BANGKOK - A 26-year-old woman who died of avian flu eight days ago almost certainly contracted the disease from her daughter in what could be the first documented case of human to human transmission of the virus, health officials say.
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A rare case of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu being passed between humans is reported by Chinese officials.
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A young woman who died in Bangkok 10 days ago appears to have had the first confirmed case of person-to-person transmission of the "bird flu" that emerged in Southeast Asia last winter.
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A previously unknown virus may be to blame for a rare but deadly form of skin cancer, opening the prospect of new ways to treat and prevent the condition, scientists said on Thursday.
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Thousands of people were told yesterday that they might have been infected with the human form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy through contaminated blood plasma products.