Rabies 'could be gone in decade'
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Rabies could be eradicated from the world within a decade, according to Edinburgh University experts.
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New strains of bacteria might make the popular vaccine less effective.
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By 2100, about 10% of all bird species probably will be extinct, killed off by habitat loss, hunting and climate change, conservation biologists estimate.
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Some arctic animals including polar bears and species of seal face the possibility of extinction in just decades because of global warming, the World Wide Fund for Nature said Sunday.
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BEIJING, Dec. 14 -- Ten percent of all bird species are set to go extinct by the end of this century, US researchers said on Monday.
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A major polio epidemic in West and Central Africa is inevitable in coming months, but the disease could be eradicated worldwide next year by mass immunisations, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.
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Nearly 20 years ago, the World Health Organization and its partners launched an ambitious program to eradicate polio by the end of the millennium. That deadline passed and another was missed in 2005 &#151; and polio still strikes about 2,000 people a year, mostly children.
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IT would be almost impossible to remove the remote risk of contracting Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a Tasmanian neurosurgeon said yesterday.
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Chicago, November 25: A teenage girl has become the first known rabies victim to survive the disease without the benefit of a rabies vaccination, her doctors said.
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Louis Pasteur's vaccine proves effective against what was then a fairly common -- and deadly -- occurrence: rabies contracted from an infected animal.
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Global warming could cut a swathe through the planet's species over the coming centuries, warns a study released Wednesday that shows a link between rising temperatures and mass extinctions reaching back half a billion years.
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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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A tenth of the world&#39;s bird species are likely to have vanished by the year 2100, with another 15% on the brink of extinction, a group of scientists have warned.
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A VACCINE for hepatitis C could be available within a decade after landmark Australian research found those repeatedly contracting the virus can develop a natural immunity to infection.
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Recent sightings of the ivory-bill&#8212;believed extinct for 50 years&#8212;have experts hopeful the species can make a comeback if its forest habitat gets better protection.
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By J.R. Welsh, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Dec. 17--GULFPORT -- The Shaw family of Gulfport recently got some news that let them breathe a sigh of relief: Their young son, who was mauled by two dogs Dec. 3, won't have to undergo a series of painful rabies shots.
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A teenage girl has become the first known person to survive rabies without a vaccination, say doctors. A team at the Children&#39;s Hospital of Wisconsin used an experimental treatment on 15-year-old Jeanna Giese.