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I've been vaccinated against killers from polio to tuberculosis to measles; I've had an inside toilet and bathroom with hot and cold running water;

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New zealand biologists believe that honeybees can sense the faint floral odor on the breath of people infected with tuberculosis,

#When we tested them with the tuberculosis odours we found the bees can still smell it down to parts per billion,

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In the 1930s an outbreak of wasting disease and an enormous hurricane virtually wiped out these eelgrass beds which provide a bedrock for marine life.

epidemic is more than triple the mortality rate of tuberculosis in China today. Despite widespread fears among public health officials that the earlier bird flu strain years ago might become a human-to-human pandemic that didn't occur.

In the U s. in addition to the anthrax bacterium this would include transmission of the prion causing chronic wasting disease.

albeit not dysentry spreading from person-to-person or tuberculosis in milk). The Ministry of Health for England and Wales recorded 59 food poisoning incidents during the years 1931-1935 compared to more than 73000 in 2012 itself a gross underestimate

cow urine as a treatment for numerous diseases including cancer diabetes and tuberculosis. But not any old cow urine will do according to the followers of the hardline Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) sect only the urine collected from a female virgin cow will suffice

Such nodules are often a sign of tuberculosis a lung infection caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis is the most common culprit in cases of calcified nodules study leader Mark Pallen a microbial genomist at Warwick Medical school in England said in a statement.

Instead of searching for a particular DNA signature shotgun metagenomics takes the approach of simply sampling all the DNA present just to see what turns Up to the researchers'surprise the man did not have tuberculosis.

#The Odd Way Tuberculosis Was brought to America When European explorers landed in The americas they brought tuberculosis (TB) and a wave of other deadly diseases with them.

However some strains of TB may have already been lurking in South america a new study finds.

A new analysis of three ancient Peruvian human skeletons that date to between A d. 1028 and 1280 well before Europeans landed on American shores shows evidence of tuberculosis including skeletal lesions

and curved spines. 8 Grisly Archaeological Discoveries It looked as though tuberculosis was present in the New world before European contact based on these skeletons said Kirsten Bos the study's lead researcher and a postdoctoral fellow

However when the researchers reconstructed the genomes of the tuberculosis samples they found the strains didn't fit into any branches of the disease that are associated commonly with human infection.

The new study also suggests that the common ancestor of the M. tuberculosis complex is just 6000 years old

A popular theory suggests that tuberculosis started in Africa tens of thousands of years ago

Sebastien Gagneux an expert on modern tuberculosis at The swiss Tropical and Public health Institute suggested that the three Peruvians caught the disease from seals that had lived once in Africa

But with only three human skeletons it's unclear whether the seal strains of tuberculosis infected many people or just an isolated few.

What's more the 6000-year-old birth date of tuberculosis needs further scrutiny researchers said.

Regardless of their age the marine tuberculosis strains appear to have been replaced completely by European strains following contact Bos said.

The board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the major funding channel for controlling these diseases, last week approved US$2. 4 billion in extra funding over two years.

Tuberculosis funds: Tuberculosis research has seen funding jump in each of the past few years, but the rate of increase is dropping off.

So says a report released on 3 december by the Treatment Action Group, an AIDS research and policy think tank based in New york. Tuberculosis funding increased by 8%last year to US$510 million,

compared with annual increases of 13%in 2007 and 17%in 2006. The balance of funding is also shifting, from government agencies to philanthropic organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

to treat multiply drug-resistant tuberculosis simply isn't a good idea. The reason the problem arises at all is

and whipworms, infect well over one billion people, lowering immune systems for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis and debilitating both physically and cognitively.

27 may News maker William Bishaithe tuberculosis expert will head South africa's Kwazulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV,

TB diagnosis The World health organization (WHO) said on 8 december that a test that can rapidly diagnose tuberculosis (TB) was a'major milestone'for disease control.

Tellurium oxides were used as antimicrobial agents against diseases such as leprosy and tuberculosis before the development of antibiotics.

Bovine TB disguised by liver flukebovine tuberculosis (btb) could be spreading across Britain because the most widely used test for the disease is ineffective

showing that animals with preexisting tuberculosis had reduced sensitivity to the skin test when they were infected with liver fluke2.

and btb causes 10%of human tuberculosis deaths in Africa.""We know that a similar immune mechanism exists in humans,

But the two largest players in malaria aid the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria,

The cull was scheduled to start imminently as part of efforts to control bovine tuberculosis, which badgers can transmit to cattle (see Nature 490,317-318;

WHONEW cases of tuberculosis (TB) fell by 2. 2%between 2010 and 2011, the World health organization said in its annual report on the disease.

it is a menace that infects their cattle with bovine tuberculosis (TB). The disease, caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis,

Tuberculosis and Malaria for the period 2012-16, of which Â 600 Â million is new money.

as pilot culls to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis begin. As protesters descended on the nation s capital last week, the chief scientific adviser of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural affairs (Defra),

My basic message to the meeting was we ve basically lost control of tuberculosis (TB) in the countryside.

Defraian Boydthe problem is tuberculosis not badgers. Badgers happen to be in the middle of this, and unfortunately the methods for dealing with that problem mean we need to reduce the densities of badgers.

and showed the effect that sustained removal of badgers can have on reducing bovine tuberculosis in cattle.

I think that we can eradicate tuberculosis, but it all depends to some extent on resources but, more than that, on the determination of people generally.

With brain-wasting disease in our deer and elk and steroidal enhanced deficiencies accumulating in our cows this bodes really well for U s as a nation huh?

Shall we go on permitting hundreds of thousands of people to die of preventable diseases like typhoid fever malaria and tuberculosis?

It was not uncommon for children to contract tuberculosis from milk. Some advocates of raw-milk consumption argue that cows are healthier now than in the pre-pasteurization era

#Tuberculosis in Zambia: spread, control of infectionin Zambia the incidence of all forms of human tuberculosis is estimated to be 444 per 100000.

There is also a high incidence of HIV and AIDS in the country. In the Kafue area a high incidence of Mycobacterium bovis in both cattle and the Kafue lechwe antilope has been detected.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis which is the main cause of human tuberculosis has also been detected in cattle in this region.

Human tuberculosis is caused by bacteria belonging to the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Sidney Malama's doctoral research shows that Mycobacterium tuberculosis which is the most prevalent tuberculosis bacterium in humans also occurs in cattle in Namwala.

In other words this bacterium is zoonotic. Malama has detected a large degree of genetic variation amongst M. tuberculosis in humans in this area of Zambia

and has also found that M. tuberculosis bacteria isolated from humans and cattle respectively are related.

The fact that this bacterium is found in cattle means that these animals can be a reservoir for human tuberculosis

and that humans can become infected with both M. bovis and M. tuberculosis by drinking unpasteurised milk

and eating meat that has not been tested properly. Malama used a standard 15 MIRU-VNTR loci-method for the genotyping of M. tuberculosis

when he studied the epidemiology of M. tuberculosis in the Namwala district. However this method has drawbacks

when it comes to studying M. bovis in this area because some loci recommended by the European Reference Laboratory (EURL) for M. bovis are not suitable for genotyping the bacterium in Zambia.

Sidney Malama's research shows that cross infection of both M. tuberculosis and M. bovis occurs between humans and animals in this region.

Finds of similar genotypes of M. tuberculosis in humans and cattle and of M. bovis in humans cattle and Kafue lechwe in Namwala indicate that the same tuberculosis bacteria are circulating between humans and animals.

Health authorities wildlife managers and cattle owners must work together to stop zoonotic tuberculosis in Namwala and the bordering areas in Kafue.

M. bovis has also been isolated from humans only suffering from tuberculosis of the lungs and this may suggest that the bacterium is transmitted between people and not just between cattle and humans.

Malama comes to the conclusion that zoonotic tuberculosis is a considerable threat to public health in Zambia

and that a One Health approach adapted to local needs is required in order to control the spread of infection in the area.

Rohani and colleagues say that such a phenomenon has recently been observed in controlled badger culls in the United kingdom where disruption of badger social dynamics and subsequent dispersal led to increased tuberculosis transmission in cattle at neighboring sites.

of infectious diseases (tuberculosis meningitis etc. alert that nowadays there are not enough measures to avoid children's exposure to tobacco.

#Badgers ultimately responsible for around half of TB in cattlebadgers are ultimately responsible for roughly half of tuberculosis (TB) in cattle in areas with high TB prevalence according to new estimates based on data from a previous badger culling trial.

#Whole genome sequencing provides researchers with a better understanding of bovine TB outbreaksthe use of whole bacterial genome sequencing will allow scientists to inexpensively track how bovine tuberculosis (TB) is transmitted from farm to farm according to research presented this week

#Vets and medical doctors should team up to tackle diseases transmitted from animals to humansa new study at the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) in Antwerp analyses the impact of animal brucellosis and bovine tuberculosis (BTB) on animals

and bovine tuberculosis are not under control. Hence ITM calls for increased collaboration between animal and human health specialists in a so called One Health approach.

Human brucellosis and tuberculosis from animal originin humans brucellosis induces undulating fever sweating weakness anemia headaches depression as well as muscular and bodily pain testicular inflammations in men and spontaneous abortion

Human tuberculosis from animal origin can affect the lungs but is located often in others part of the body.

and bovine tuberculosis are not under control. Future studies at ITM will analyse the impacts of these diseases in humans in more detail.

(ALAT) the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology (APSR) the European Respiratory Society (ERS) the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

The results derived from the model in the Nature paper entitled A dynamic model of bovine tuberculosis spread

#Genetic find might lead to cattle that are more resistant to TBSCIENTISTS have identified genetic traits in cattle that might allow farmers to breed livestock with increased resistance to bovine tuberculosis (TB.