Eating bushmeat &#39;linked to HIV-like virus&#39;
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A virus similar to the HIV strain which causes AIDS has passed from apes to humans as a result of eating &#39;&#39;bushmeat&#39;&#39;in central Africa, an expert has warned.
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A Perth jury has convicted a 37-year-old man of infecting a woman with HIV. The District Court in Perth took only a few hours to find Ronald Houghton guilty of passing on the virus by having unprotected sex with the woman five years ago when she was 18.
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Britain's former culture minister Chris Smith, a Labour Party lawmaker, has publicly admitted to being HIV ( news - web sites )-positive. Smith told the weekly Sunday Times he has had the disease, which causes ...
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The rate of new HIV and Aids infections appears to have peaked in KwaZulu-Natal, a leading researcher in the field has said. Prof Alan Whiteside, the head of the Health, Economics and HIV and Aids Division
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Eating BSE-infected meat could lead to people developing different types of CJD, researchers have suggested.
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NEW YORK  - Findings from a study conducted  in Japan suggest that consumption of uncooked deer meat is an  important risk factor for infection with hepatitis E virus  (HEV).
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Botswana President Festus Mogae issued a blunt message to his people Wednesday on HIV/AIDS: abstain from unsafe sex or die. Botswana, which has one of the highest rates of HIV infection
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Scientists said on Monday they were studying a potentially new virulent strain of the AIDS virus taken from a New York man to see if it posed any public danger.
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A diet high in red meat and alcohol could trigger relapses in sufferers of a bowel disease, according to Tyneside scientists.
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Leigh Hopper&#39;s Dec. 1 article on AIDS [&quot;The personal stories behind the statistics&quot;] stated that &quot;HIV is a disease of poverty, of lack of other options, of lack of education.
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Thai researchers have urged people in Southeast Asia to stop eating raw freshwater fish because they risk becoming infected with a parasitic worm that may predispose them to developing liver cancer.
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Contact with alcohol makes cells in the mouth more susceptible to HIV during oral sex, a recent study has found. A team of researchers from UCLA announced their finding in the Dec. 1, 2004, Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
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[LUSAKA] Africa&#39;s scientific community should develop standards to guide research on microbicides - substances that kill or block the HIV virus â-aid participants at a meeting on vaginal microbicides held last week (17-19 November) by the Southern
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MONDAY, Feb. 14 (HealthDay News) -- A harmless version of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is being used to hunt down malignant melanoma cancer cells in mice, researchers say.
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Eating a large amount of red meat has been linked to an increased risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis, scientists say. A study showed people who ate meat every day had double the risk of the disease compared
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The rate of new HIV and Aids infections appears to have peaked in KwaZulu-Natal, a leading researcher in the field has said. Professor Alan Whiteside, the head of the Health, Economics and HIV and Aids Division
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Meat from African wild animals being sold illegally in the UK is spreading a virus similar to HIV, a leading scientist warns.