Outlook: Old Plagues Don't Die, They Evolve
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Howard Markel, a communicable diseases and history of medicine professor at the University of Michigan, will discuss his Sunday Outlook article on multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and the threat it and similar diseases pose.
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Increased survival sounds like great news. But it may not mean what you think.
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Scientists have identified a new bug which has evolved in insects to attack humans.
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Ancient bacteria are able to survive nearly half a million years in harsh, frozen conditions, researchers said on Monday in a study that adds to arguments that permafrost environments on Mars could harbor life.
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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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This year, bird flu seems all but forgotten. But scientists say that the virus is as dangerous and unpredictable as ever.
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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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Scientists have shown that tiny changes to modern flu viruses could render them as deadly as the 1918 strain which killed millions.
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Scientists have pinpointed mutations in an ancient protein that transformed its shape and function more than 400 million years ago.
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AN article in scientific journal says researchers have discovered a rare disease caused by a gene mutation that often kills children before the age of two.
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A study of an ancient human pest - head lice â-uggests that the ancestors of today&#39;s American Indians may have met and fought with pre-humans long extinct elsewhere, scientists said on Tuesday.
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Evolutionary experiments on microbes are under way in many laboratories and scientists can observer bacteria adapt over 40,000 generations of living in a beaker.
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Evolution has gotten faster, and scientists think they know why: Microbes are swapping DNA from one species to another, giving the Darwinian process an added boost.
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Scientists hope the understanding of past flu pandemics can help us better prepare for future crises.
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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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Modern medicine can keep people alive into their 9th and 10th decades, but a growing number of these people are asking why.
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Denver Zoo is taking steps to prevent a possible outbreak of plague after a monkey dies of the disease.