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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A vaccine against malaria, which kills up to three million people a year, could be a reality by the end of the decade, scientists involved in one of the biggest clinical trials in Africa said yesterday.
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Poll: Most New Yorkers think a terrorist attack, a blackout, a hurricane and a flue pandemic are likely within the next 10 years.
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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 immunizations, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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Almost a third of the world&#39;s frogs, toads, salamanders and other amphibians are threatened with extinction within 100 years, according to a study.
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Many infectious diseases have been eradicated in Europe but new infections and drug resistant microbes pose a new threat, a new EU report presented Thursday in Stockholm showed.
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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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By the end of the century one in 10 species of birds in the world will be extinct and a further 15 percent will be on the brink of extinction.
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The next century definitely will not be for the birds as the changing world takes a toll on many species. By 2100, about 10 percent of all bird species probably will be extinct, killed off by habitat loss, hunting
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The rate at which people are infected with HIV may have peaked in the late 1990s, according to a UNAids report.
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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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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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Habitat loss, climate change and infectious diseases are pushing a growing number of species toward extinction, according to a report yesterday by the World Conservation Union.
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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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By the end of the century one in 10 species of birds in the world will be extinct and a further 15 per cent will be on the brink, according to one of the largest studies of avian biodiversity.
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Heightened fears that potentially devastating livestock disease is spreading.
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Unless urgent action is taken to slow down global warming polar bears will be extinct by the end of the century. The stark warning is contained in an authoritative report compiled by more than 250 scientists on the effects of climate change in the Arctic.