Public Health News Roundup: July 14

During medical experiments on apes at the GenSys Corporation, scientists unwittingly create a deadly virus. The Simian Flu quickly spreads across the globe, wiping out almost all of humanity. While the hyper-intelligent, escaped test monkeys ...

This past flu season was a fairly unpleasant one, thanks to the return of the H1N1 virus that caused the 2009 swine flupandemic, federal health officials confirmed Thursday. Just as in 2009, the influenza season hit young and middle-aged adults ...

The "danger zones" in Asia which are vulnerable to deadly bird flu have been mapped by scientists. The virus, called H7N9, has infected 433 people mostly in China and has killed 62. The study, published in Nature Communications, showed parts of ...

Indonesia Works to Prevent Avian Influenza INDONESIA - Government efforts are being made to fight the avian influenza virus in Indonesia after the severe hammering the poultry sector took in 2003. ThePoultrySite News Desk Monday, June 02, 2014 ...

These latest casualties bring the total number of cases of H1N1 virus to 11 since the beginning of the year, including three deaths, as reported by the Foundation for Health Services in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. 15 more people are in ...

PUNE: With the H1N1 virus claiming a life in the city, doctors have advised people to take some simple precautions to avoid contracting the disease. "Swine flu is a very contagious infection like all viral infections and it becomes difficult in ...

MEXICO CITY -- A health official says Mexico has its first confirmed case of a person infected with a new mosquito-borne virus that has spread quickly in the Caribbean. Assistant Health Secretary Pablo Kuri said Thursday that a woman contracted ...

CHENNAI: On what could be seen as a minor flu outbreak, hospitals across the city had observed a sharp increase in the number of influenza cases, especially in the last two months. General physicians say that at least 80 per cent of their patients ...

The most detailed analysis to date of the spread of the H1N1 2009 pandemic influenza virus, known informally as swine flu, has found that short-range travel was likely the primary driver for the 2009 pandemic in the United States, in contrast with ...