Rare, dangerous bug strikes Hunter region (The Maitland Mercury)
Later flu pandemics were not so devastating. They included the 1957 Asian Flu (type A, H2N2 strain) and the 1968 Hong Kong Flu (type A, H3N2 strain), but even these smaller outbreaks killed millions of people. In later pandemics antibiotics were available to control secondary infections and this may have helped reduce mortality compared to the Spanish Flu of 1918.
Rare, dangerous bug strikes Hunter region (The Maitland Mercury)
Maitland residents are being urged to be wary of a rare but dangerous cause of bacterial gastroenteritis following three cases in the Hunter during the past few weeks.
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WIBW - News (WIBW-TV Topeka)
ATLANTA (AP) -- A mutated version of a common cold virus has caused 10 deaths in the last 18 months, U.S. health officials said Thursday. Adenoviruses usually cause respiratory infections that aren't considered lethal.
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Mutant common cold virus kills 10 (The Record)
ATLANTA -- A mutated version of a common cold virus has caused 10 deaths in the past 18 months, U.S. health officials said Thursday. Adenoviruses usually cause respiratory infections that aren't considered lethal.
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ATCC Vero Cells Used To Manufacture Second Rotavirus Vaccine For Clinical Trials (Business Wire via Yahoo!7 Finance)
ATCC (American Type Culture Collection) announced today that its master cell bank of highly characterized Vero cells will be used for the manufacture of a second promising rotavirus vaccine candidate.
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• CDC Announces Findings On New Respiratory Virus (Turks.US)
US health authorities have announced that a mutated version of a common cold virus has caused 10 deaths in the last 18 months. Adenoviruses usually cause respiratory infections that aren't considered lethal.
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ATCC Vero Cells Used To Manufacture Second Rotavirus Vaccine For Clinical Trials (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
MANASSAS, Va.----ATCC announced today that its master cell bank of highly characterized Vero cells will be used for the manufacture of a second promising rotavirus vaccine candidate.
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CDC: New respiratory bug has killed 10 (AP via Yahoo! News)
A mutated version of a common cold virus has caused 10 deaths in the last 18 months, U.S. health officials said Thursday. Adenoviruses usually cause respiratory infections that aren't considered lethal. But a new variant has caused at least 140 illnesses in New York, Oregon, Washington and Texas, according to a report issued Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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AG wants litter application stopped (Shelbyville Daily Union)
By Teddye Snell TAHLEQUAH DAILY PRESS (TAHLEQUAH, Okla.) Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson has asked a federal judge to prohibit any further land application of poultry waste in the Illinois River Watershed.
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'My daughter deserves justice' (News 24 South Africa)
The father of a 17-month-old girl who may have been the first person to die as the result of the diarrhoea outbreak in Delmas, is threatening to sue authorities.
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Lakenheath urges awareness as several fall ill (Stars and Stripes)
RAF LAKENHEATH, England — A public health official has advised base personnel to keep their hands clean after the military hospital here reported a higher-than average number of gastrointestinal illnesses recently.
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Rare, dangerous bug strikes Hunter region (The Maitland Mercury)
Later flu pandemics were not so devastating. They included the 1957 Asian Flu (type A, H2N2 strain) and the 1968 Hong Kong Flu (type A, H3N2 strain), but even these smaller outbreaks killed millions of people. In later pandemics antibiotics were available to control secondary infections and this may have helped reduce mortality compared to the Spanish Flu of 1918.
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