The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today expressed confidence in the United Kingdom?s ability to respond adequately to an outbreak of bird flu at a commercial turkey farm, but warned that greater support was needed to help countries still struggling to control the virus, such as Indonesia, Egypt and Nigeria.
Increasing numbers of young people in the Czech Republic are not protecting themselves against HIV transmission, according to the Czech daily newspaper Mlada Fronta, the Prague Daily Monitor reports.
Wednesday marks the seventh annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, which aims to encourage blacks to get tested for HIV, to become educated about the virus and to receive treatment if necessary.
Four million people die every year from respiratory diseases such as viral influenza. For elderly people in particular, an infection can be dangerous.
Indonesia signs a deal with U.S. vaccine manufacturer Baxter International Inc. for human bird flu samples and the development of vaccine to combat human bird flu.
Rift Valley Fever (RVF), a deadly viral disease that broke out in Kenya in late 2006, has spread to neighbouring Tanzania, where two deaths have been reported in the northern region of Arusha, a government official said Tuesday.
British authorities, trying to contain an outbreak of avian flu of the lethal H5N1 strain on a turkey farm, have gassed tens of thousands of birds and will continue with the culling.
An Australian man, Andre Parenzee, 36, HIV-positive, convicted of endangering the lives of three women through unprotected sex, is arguing in court that HIV does not exist.
The United Nations health agency has confirmed a fatal human case of bird flu in Nigeria, Africa?s most populous country, only the second incidence of the H5N1 virus in humans in the sub-Saharan region, and is working with the Nigerian authorities to identify the source of infection.
Although more than 160,000 turkeys have been slaughtered at a farm in Suffolk in England in order to curb the spread of the deadly bird flu virus, officials remain baffled as to the source of the outbreak.