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British scientists plan to harness the power of the internet to catch outbreaks of killer infections before they spread. The researchers will use online surveillance to monitor millions of web searches where people have looked up symptoms related to conditions such as HIV, MRSA or dangerous strains of flu. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/web-searches-for-symptoms-of-hiv-mrsa-and-flu-strains-will-be-monitored-to-spot-outbreaks-of-infections-8613064.html from Activist Post: Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (NY-25), the only microbiologist in Congress, reacted to a new study that conclusively identified transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from livestock to humans. Currently, MRSA kills more Americans each year than HIV/AIDS. The groundbreaking study was conducted by genetics researchers who analyzed the genomes of MRSA bacteria from patients and their farm animals, and found the samples to be genetically identical. Published on Tuesday in EMBO [...] Health officials said Thursday that thousands of patients of an Oklahoma dentist should undergo testing for HIV and hepatitis after officials investigating the source of a patient’s disease discovered instruments weren’t being cleaned properly. The Oklahoma Board of Dentistry said Thursday that state and county health inspectors inspected Dr. W. Scott Harrington‘s practice after a patient with no other known risk factors tested positive for hepatitis C and the virus that causes [...] Child’s mother was only diagnosed as HIV positive after going into labour
Doctors have made a landmark breakthrough in the treatment of HIV after they ‘cured’ a baby with the virus. The [...] (Reuters) - The Supreme Court agreed to consider whether the government can require groups that receive federal funding for overseas HIV/AIDS programs to have explicit policies that oppose prostitution and sex trafficking… READ MORE The cells naturally occur in the body in small numbers
Scientists have created cells capable of killing cancer for the first time. The dramatic breakthrough was made by researchers in Japan who created cancer-specific killer T cells. They say the development paves the way for [...] NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A study by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has found that large parts of the city are plagued with soaring rates for multiple STDs – including HIV/AIDS. The study surveyed the city’s 181 ZIP codes for rates of HIV/AIDS, chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and hepatitis B, as well as two non-sexually-transmitted diseases – hepatitis C and tuberculosis. The diseases often occur among the same populations, the study [...] All Americans aged 15 to 65 should be tested for HIV, a government health panel has recommended. According to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an estimated 200,000 people nationwide don’t realise they are infected with the virus that can cause AIDS. Officials said the new draft recommendation is aimed at preventing those people from infecting others or developing AIDS themselves. If finalised, private insurers would have to pay for the test. More at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2235613/Government-health-panel-calls-Americans-aged-15-65-tested-HIV.html
Here [...] WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s a new push to make testing for the AIDS virus as common as cholesterol checks. Americans ages 15 to 64 should get an HIV test at least once — not just people considered at high risk for the virus, an independent panel that sets screening guidelines proposed Monday. http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/11/20/new-push-to-make-aids-virus-testing-common-during-routine-check-up/ Debora MacKenzie
A nastier kind of salmonella infection has emerged alongside the HIV epidemic in Africa. The finding is the first evidence that HIV might be allowing new human pathogens to evolve in immunosuppressed people. Most people who get salmonella contract it from eating contaminated meat, leading to an unpleasant but brief gut upset. But in Africa, the bacteria escapes into the blood of people with suppressed immune systems, [...] NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – The New York City Health Department has alerted local doctors of an outbreak of deadly bacterial meningitis among HIV-infected gay men. Officials said in the past month, at least one person has died and another was hospitalized in critical condition from the outbreak…. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/09/27/city-health-officials-investigating-deadly-bacterial-meningitis-outbreak-among-hiv-positive-men/ ATLANTA (AP) — Researchers have identified a mysterious new disease that has left scores of people in Asia and some in the United States with AIDS-like symptoms even though they are not infected with HIV. The patients’ immune systems become damaged, leaving them unable to fend off germs as healthy people do. What triggers this isn’t known, but the disease does not seem to be contagious. http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2012/08/25/researchers-find-mysterious-new-aids-like-disease/ A mysterious new disease causes AIDS-like symptoms in Asians even though they are not infected with HIV, a research has found. The disease damages patients’ immune systems, but is not contagious. The illness leaves patients unable to fight off germs. Some patients have died of overwhelming infections, including some Asians now living in the US, said Dr. Sarah Browne, a scientist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who [...] For the third time in three years, adult movie studios have largely shut down production as a precautionary measure after a performer was diagnosed with a potentially fatal sexually transmitted disease but didn’t immediately disclose it. A male performer in the Los Angeles porn community was reportedly diagnosed with syphilis last month, but apparently hid the fact from producers, prompting fears of a spread among other actors and actresses. Several big studios have [...] Without getting concerned about an Omega-Man scenario this is seriously breathtakingly cool. The so-called Berlin patient is famously the only person in the world who has been cured of HIV. But he may soon have company. Two people in Boston also seem to be free of HIV after undergoing bone marrow transplants for cancer, just as the Berlin patient did five years ago. The crucial difference is that the Boston patients have [...] An HIV-positive man walked into an unlocked motel room at the Parliament House gay resort Saturday and raped another man, Orlando police said. Kenneth Creuzer, 48, told investigators the door to the man’s room was open, so he walked in and assaulted him as he lay on his stomach, a police report states. Leaving a door ajar and the blinds open while lying facedown is known as an invitation to sex, [...] There are no scientific reasons the world can’t chart a path, albeit a difficult one, toward the world’s first AIDS-free generation, a top federal health official said Sunday.
“There is no excuse scientifically to say we cannot do it,” said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaking to the media at AIDS 2012, an international AIDS conference, which began here Sunday. “What we need now [...] Sailendra Sil Hundreds of sex workers from around the world who said they were denied visas to attend an international AIDS conference in the United States began their own meeting in Kolkata on Saturday in protest. Some 550 representatives of sex workers from India and 41 other countries were attending the seven-day event in the eastern Indian city, organisers said. “Sex workers wanted to be a part of the US conference [...] WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection, a milestone in the 30-year battle against the virus that causes AIDS. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/48198452/ns/today-today_health/t/fda-approves-first-pill-help-prevent-hiv/#.UARZoEWe6CN The implications of HIV infection for tuberculosis within Ireland are unclear. Only 24 of the 882 new cases in 2004 and 2005 were The HIV infection rate for heterosexual African American women in the District’s poorest neighborhoods nearly doubled in two years, from 6.3 percent to 12.1 percent, according to a study released Wednesday by the D.C. Department of Health. The large increase reflects wider testing of people who were previously unaware of their status and possibly a still-rising rate of new infections in that high-risk group, officials said. The disease remains at epidemic levels in [...] Is breast best for inhibiting HIV? An unknown component of breast milk kills HIV particles and virus-infected cells, as well as blocking HIV-transmission in mice with a human immune system. Even if babies born to HIV-positive mothers avoid infection during birth, around 15 per cent contract HIV during early childhood. Since the virus can get into milk, breastfeeding was one possible suspect. To investigate further, Angela Wahl at the University of North Carolina at [...] ELIZABETH, N.J. (CN) – A gay HIV-positive man says in court that a hospital denied him treatment and visitors, as the doctor remarked, “This is what he gets for going against God’s will.” Experts have dubbed it the “new AIDS of the Americas.” A parasitic infection called Chagas Disease has similarities to the early spread of HIV, according to research published recently in the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. Like AIDS, Chagas is hard to detect and has a long incubation period before symptoms emerge, the study said, according to the New York Times. As many as 8 million people are infected in the Western Hemisphere, mainly [...] A little-known illness caused by blood sucking insects has been labelled the ‘new AIDS of the Americas’ by experts. The parasitic illness called Chagas Disease has similarities to the early spread of HIV, according to a new study. Similar to AIDS, Chagas is difficult to detect and it can take years for symptoms to emerge, according to experts writing in the journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. An estimated 8 million people are infected [...] Innocent young girls are being ‘kidnapped’ and forced to ‘marry’ older HIV-positive men because of the myth that having sex with a virgin will cure them of the disease. An investigation into South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape revealed how children as young as 12, from the Xhosa people, are being pressured into premature nuptials. CNN discovered how the tradition of Ukuthwala, translated to ‘to pick up’ or ‘to take’, was used as an [...] More total spent doesn’t mean austerity (for the people) wasn’t done. It means on the whole more was spent. Austerity for the people can be all sorts of things while other spending increases can be in totally different areas. You could ALSO have 20 percent more people needed food stamps yet they doled out 10 percent less per person (which is austerity as decreases per person, or how it effects each [...] An Alabama man has filed a lawsuit against a Florida blood bank, charging that a transfusion during a heart bypass surgery infected him with HIV. The lawsuit alleges that the contaminated blood given to Howard Midkiff came from the Alabama branch of LifeSouth Community Blood Centers. The blood contaminated with HIV was collected by LifeSouth from ‘John Doe’ on October 14, 2010, according to the lawsuit. Infected: Howard Midkiff allegedly received the contaminated [...] A Zimbabwean politician has said women should be forced to bathe less and shave off their hair to make them less attractive to men and help curb the spread of HIV. Senator Morgan Femai reportedly told a conference he believed the killer disease had spread because men found it difficult to resist attractive and well-dressed women. The politician added that new laws should be drawn up compelling women to make themselves less [...] |
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