Virus Is Seen as Suspect in Death of Honeybees
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A virus appears to be a prime suspect â but not likely to be the only culprit â in the mass die-offs of honeybees reported last fall and winter.
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Test results are expected on up to six dead birds found near an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus.
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NEW YORK  - Infection with simian virus 40  (SV40) plays little or no role in the development of  mesothelioma, a cancer affecting the lining of the lungs that  has been linked to asbestos exposure, according to a report in  The Lancet.
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A 90-year-old nursing home patient died from the stomach flu last year, marking the first time U.S. health officials confirmed that the highly contagious bug is sometimes fatal.
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A medical examiner was investigating Wednesday the death of 76-year-old man during a virus outbreak that sickened 679 people on a trans-Atlantic cruise.
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Scientists yesterday identified a virus as one of the likely causes of the recent wave of honeybee colony collapses across the country.
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A 20-year-old woman from West Java who tested positive for bird flu died on Sunday, a health official said.
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Scientific sleuths have a new suspect for a mysterious affliction that has killed off honeybees by the billions: a virus previously unknown in the United States.
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Tests have found that birds at a poultry farm in southern Germany died of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, and some 160,000 birds were being slaughtered as a precaution, authorities said.
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The Nevada County Department of Environmental Health confirmed late last week that a dead bird found in Truckee tested positive for West Nile virus.
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Scientists investigating a mysterious ailment that has killed many of the nation's honeybees are concentrating on pesticides and microorganisms as possible causes of the disorder, and some beekeepers are refusing to place their hives near chemically treated fields.
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We learned Monday, two Lower Valley men sick with the West Nile virus have died but health authorities cannot say for sure it was the virus that killed them.
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One bee disease, called Israeli acute paralysis virus, seems strongly associated with the beekeeping operations that experienced big losses.
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A previously unknown virus may be to blame for a rare but deadly form of skin cancer, opening the prospect of new ways to treat and prevent the condition, scientists said on Thursday.
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Scientists say a type of fruit bat could be the source of a deadly outbreak of Marburg disease in Africa.
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Scientists have said a woman who died of bird flu probably contracted the disease from her daughter.
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A previously unknown virus killed three women who got organ transplants from an Australian donor, and researchers say the technique they used to identify it could lead them to many more new infectious agents.