Author, Mark Jerome Walters discusses his new book, ‘Seven Modern Plagues’
A new book, which examines seven relatively new and emerging infectious diseases and how human action and the change in the ecology, causes them to produce, according to the author, “ecodemics”. The More...
Cambodia reports two more human H5N1 bird flu cases, brings country’s total to 20 for 2013
In what is described as it’s worst outbreak of the dangerous virus since first reported in 2004, Cambodia health officials are reporting two additional confirmed cases of human H5N1 avian influenza in two More...
17th human H5N1 bird flu case reported in Cambodia
A boy from Cambodia’s southern Kandal Province has been confirmed for avian influenza H5N1, making him the 17th case reported from the Kingdom this year, according to a Xinhua report today. The 6-year-old More...
Cambodian boy becomes the 10th H5N1 bird flu death of the year
In a follow-up to a report last week, a 9-year-old boy from a village in northeastern Battambang province has died from avian influenza H5N1, according to the Associated Press. Image/CIA The boy developed fever More...
Cambodia reports two more human cases of H5N1 avian influenza, brings total in country to 16 in 2013
The Cambodian Ministry of Health is reporting two additional human cases of avian influenza H5N1. These two cases are number 15 and 16 reported in the Kingdom so far this year. According to the Ministries news release, The More...
Cambodia reports 13th H5N1 bird flu case of 2013 in six-year-old child
Cambodia’s Ministry of Health is reporting one more human case of H5N1 avian influenza, according to a Joint news release of the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Cambodia and World Health Organization More...
Chinese researchers make hybrid H5N1-H1N1 influenza strain thats easily transmissible, critics call it ‘appalling irresponsibility’
We remember just a year or two ago when researchers from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Erasmus MC in Rotterdam created mutated Avian influenza strains that could spread between ferrets and the subsequent More...
Guiyang, China man is second human bird flu death of 2013
In a follow-up from a story earlier this month, Chinese health authorities report the second fatality due to avian influenza, or bird flu of the year, according to a Voice of America report Saturday. H5N1 avian More...
Cambodian Health Ministry reports 3 new human bird flu cases
H5N1 Avian InfluenzaImage/CDC The Cambodian Ministry of Health (MoH) reported three new human cases of bird flu, or avian influenza, two of them fatal, in the first three weeks of this year, according to an Associated More...
Indonesia reports ninth human ‘bird flu’ death of 2012
H5N1 Avian InfluenzaImage/CDC A 4-year-old West Java boy is the latest case of human avian influenza H5N1 detected in 2012, according to a FluTrackers report Dec. 14. According to the timeline from the Indonesian More...
Indonesia reports eighth human bird flu death of 2012
The Ministry of Health of Indonesia has reported a new fatal human case of avian influenza (H5N1) in a man from Yogyakarta province on Java. According to a World Health Organization (WHO) Global Alert and Response More...
