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Bird flu scientists respond to media hysteria, suspend critical research
By Nicholas Russo, February 10, 2012
The investigators discovered how a mutation of the deadly virus could lead to its airborne transmission between human beings.
Totally drug-resistant tuberculosis reported in Mumbai
By Debra Watson, January 27, 2012
Doctors in Mumbai, India’s largest city, reported in December that they had confirmed four cases of Totally Drug Resistant Tuberculosis.
Listeria outbreak claims 15 lives in US
By Naomi Spencer, October 3, 2011
In the deadliest food poisoning outbreak in the US in over a decade, at least 15 people have died of listeriosis linked to Colorado-grown cantaloupes.
Australia to shut northern TB clinics
By John Mackay, September 29, 2011
The planned closures have been strongly condemned by Australian health professionals and the World Health Organisation who fear that it will lead to an increase in multi-drug resistant or MDR-TB, already prevalent in PNG.
Thousands sickened, dozens dead in E. coli outbreak in Germany
By Andrew Reiss and Patrick Martin, June 10, 2011
The outbreak is the most serious in at least 20 years.
New “super bug” threatens Australian hospitals
By John Mackay, May 19, 2011
Despite warnings by health professionals, no national surveillance system has been introduced for the potentially fatal Clostridium difficile bacteria.
Tuberculosis: Canadian Arctic tragedy, growing global threat
By Jack Miller, February 16, 2011
The startling incidence of tuberculosis among the native population—especially the Inuit—of Canada, one of the world’s most affluent countries, is the product of a long and continuing history of injustice.
Previously eradicated diseases reemerge in US
By Ryan Rahilly, February 4, 2011
The re-emergence of diseases like pertussis, tuberculosis, measles and mumps in the US is an expression of the dangers posed by failing infrastructure and declining living standards for the working class.
Cholera outbreak kills dozens in Papua New Guinea
By Zac Hambides, November 27, 2010
The main concern of the Australian government has been to close its borders with PNG, while providing minimal aid to the people of its former colonial possession.
Haiti cholera epidemic reaches Port-au-Prince
By Tom Eley, October 26, 2010
At least five cases of cholera have been confirmed in Port-au-Prince, a week after the epidemic emerged in central Haiti. By Monday evening the national death toll was reported to be 259.
Cholera epidemic kills 150 in Haiti
By a reporter, October 23, 2010
The outbreak of disease is the worst since last January’s devastating earthquake, which killed 250,000 people and left another 1.5 million homeless.
Dramatic increase in HIV infections in Eastern Europe
By Markus Salzmann, August 10, 2010
The spread of HIV/Aids is directly related to the destruction of the health system and social infrastructure carried out at the beginning of the 1990s in the name of the free market.
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