If Pandemic Strikes, Avoid Honolulu
MIT researchers have analyzed which airport hubs would be key to spreading a virulent disease, with some surprising results World map shows flight routes from the 40 largest US airports. Image:...
View ArticleSARS-Like Virus Surfaces in Middle East
Global health officials are closely monitoring a new respiratory virus related to SARS that is believed to have killed at least one person in Saudi Arabia and left a Qatari citizen in critical...
View ArticleSARS “Like” Virus Emerges, Spreading Person to Person
A third patient in Britain has contracted a new SARS-like virus, becoming the second confirmed UK case in a week and showing the deadly infection is being spread from person to person, health officials...
View ArticleNew Coronavirus Claims Another Victim
A Saudi man infected with a deadly new virus from the same family as SARS has died, becoming the ninth patient in the world to be killed the disease which has so far infected 15, the World Health...
View ArticleResearchers: Coronavirus appears deadlier than Sars
Mysterious coronavirus, though not less infectious, has a higher mortality rate and infects many species, Hong Kong researchers find The mysterious new coronavirus that emerged in the Middle East and...
View ArticleHuman to Human Transmission of Sars-Like Corona Virus in France
A second case of a new SARS-like coronavirus has been diagnosed in France, the Health Ministry said on Sunday, in what appeared to be a case of human-to-human transmission. The new infection was found...
View ArticleNew SARS Virus Mutating Resistance, Kills Over 50%
LONDON: The latest influenza virus, H7N9, has mutated and is resistant to the most effective drug available to humans. Research published on Tuesday by the British medical journal Lancet found clinical...
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