Dead Bodies Pose No Risk of Epidemics - WHO
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Dead bodies do not spread disease but  mass burials after disasters, such as this week's killer floods  in Haiti, cause unnecessary suffering to surviving relatives,  the United Nations' health agency said Friday. Citing mass  graves being dug in the Caribbean island, where over 1,000  people were killed by tropical storm Jeanne, the World Health  Organization (WHO) said it was a wasteful misconception that  cadavers caused epidemics.
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The World Health Organization said the insecticide poses no risk when sprayed in small amounts on the inner walls of homes.
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Relatively few deaths from variant CJD will be caused by infected blood, scientists suggest.
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The death of a young Nigerian woman from bird flu has focused attention on the risk of such human infections in West Africa, where social habits and weak health and veterinary services make the region vulnerable, experts say.
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GENEVA - The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that despite new research indicating some resistance to Tamiflu, it remained its âdrug of choiceâ for protection against bird flu and in case of a human flu pandemic.
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As many as one in 300 HIV patients  never get sick and never suffer damage to their immune systems  and AIDS experts said on Wednesday they want to know why.
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GENEVA  - Keeping old people in good shape is one of the biggest challenges facing the health sector with the number of people aged 60 and above expected to top one billion by 2025, the World Health Organisation warned.
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The next few days will be critical in controlling any potential outbreak of waterborne diseases in areas affected by the Indian Ocean tsunamis, the UN health agency said Thursday.
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Studies suggest many doctors and family members ignore living wills, without serious consequences.
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Scientists plan to exhume within the next five months the body of a British diplomat who died in 1919 of the Spanish flu, in a move they hope will provide vital clues on how to fight any future pandemic.
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Bernard Matthews says there is no risk to people from the bird flu outbreak but farmers remain wary about its impact.
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INDONESIA JAKARTA -- Despite fears that a great number of people would quickly die from disease in the aftermath of the South Asian tsunami, there have been no epidemics so far, health officials said yesterday. Aid workers are rushing water purification tablets to survivors and building toilets in an effort to head off deadly outbreaks of cholera, typhoid and other ...
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Preventing outbreaks of diseases across tsunami-hit Asia is a race against time, but contrary to popular belief, the thousands of rotting corpses do not pose the main threat, health officials said on Thursday.
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The bird flu virus that has killed hundreds of people since 2003 has now stabilized but risks that it mutates into a new dangerous form cannot be ruled out, the head of the World Animal Health body OIE said on Thursday.
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The first probable case of one person  infecting another with bird flu, announced by Thailand on  Tuesday, may be a one-off event implying no new big threat to  human health, a World Health Organization (WHO) spokesman said.
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Concerns that legalised assisted death would be used to kill vulnerable people have not played out, a study says.
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Fears that the Indian Ocean tsunami  could unleash epidemics which would double the death toll are  fading as access to clean water improves, the World Health  Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.