Human Viruses Cause Respiratory Outbreaks in Ivory Coast Chimps
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In the past decade, human viruses spread to chimpanzee populations in the Ivory Coast, causing outbreaks that were sometimes fatal.
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¡¡ GENEVA, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- The World Health Organization (WHO)said Wednesday that two of the three fatal human cases of bird fluin Vietnam were identified as caused by strain of the H5N1 virus.
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HONG KONG  - Hong Kong health chiefs are investigating an outbreak of respiratory illness at a hospital involving 19 children that left one girl dead, the government revealed.
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Health experts have identified a mystery illness that has infected 34 children in a Hong Kong hospital as a common respiratory virus.
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Scientists successfully inject male monkeys with a protein that renders the chimps temporarily infertile. The research may provide a new birth-control option for men in the next decade.
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Cambodia says it has found a new outbreak of bird flu in a province near Phnom Penh. Cambodia&#39;s agriculture ministry says all birds at the farm where the outbreak was found will be slaughtered.
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Bird flu may be the tip of the iceberg. Experts meeting in Mali say the deadly H5N1 virus is just one of a plethora of diseases threatening animals and people around the world as global warming, intensive farming, increased travel and trade help dangerous microbes breed and spread.
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A battle won by human ancestors against a virus that infected chimpanzees and other primates millions of years ago may have left people today more vulnerable to the AIDS virus, scientists said on Thursday.
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The global campaign to eradicate polio kicked off its second phase in west Africa amid unrest in Ivory Coast that could impede efforts to vaccinate 80 million children in sub-Saharan Africa under age five.
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It used to be called the common cold. Now scientists are starting to put some not-so-common names to the hundreds of viruses that make people cough, sneeze, wheeze and worse.
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A WHO official noted that widespread, traditional Asian farming methods resulted in close contact between humans and animals, which meant a bird flu virus contagious among people was more likely to come from someone who caught avian influenza directly
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ROME -- Most of the scattered bird flu outbreaks so far this year probably can be traced to illegal or improper trade in poultry, scientists say. That includes recent outbreaks in Nigeria and Egypt as well as the large outbreak on a turkey farm in England.
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Sexual frustration has driven a mild-mannered chimpanzee to take up smoking and spitting, according to China&#39;s Xinhua news agency.
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An outbreak of Ebola virus in northwestern Republic of Congo has killed 5,000 gorillas, helping to push the threatened species even closer to extinction, a study says.
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The sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer in women is poised to become one of the leading causes of oral cancer in men
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NEW YORK  - Zoo workers who come in close  contact with nonhuman primates, such as apes and monkeys, are  at increased risk for exposure to simian virus 40 (SV40),  suggest the results of a study of North American zoo workers.
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Scientists discover the first definitive evidence that HIV made the jump from chimpanzees to people in the forests of Cameroon