cut back influenza monitoring and resulted in the loss of observing time at major telescope facilities.
Rare-disease deal Pharmaceutical giant Shire, headquartered in Dublin, announced on 11 Â November the purchase of drug company Viropharma for US$4. 2 Â billion.
Viropharma develops drugs for rare diseases. The bulk of its roughly $400 Â million in annual sales revenue comes from a drug used to treat a rare blood condition known as hereditary angioedema.
which causes pine-wilt disease, has killed more than 50 million trees and resulted in economic losses of US$22 billion since 1982.
"This is an important study that points to a new way of preventing this deadly disease,
is to identify all fungal species that are involved in facilitating pine-wilt disease.""It s unlikely that one single species is to blame,
and reclaimed by nature, causing a headache for today s policy-makers. Should it be replanted to feed hungry mouths,
The pathogen, which was limited until now to parts of Asia and a region of Australia, has a particularly devastating effect on the popular Cavendish cultivar,
Expansion of the disease worldwide could be disastrous, say researchers. The disease is caused by strains of a soil fungus called Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc.
A strain of Foc previously wiped out the Gros Michel cultivar, which was exported the main banana variety from the nineteenth century until the 1950s.
which produces pathogen-free plantlets. Source: FAOTO slow the spread, good farm hygiene, and prompt quarantine and destruction of infected plants are crucial.
He estimates that the disease has been present for two to three years. Gert  Kema, a Fusarium researcher at Wageningen University and Research Centre in The netherlands and co-author of the Jordan report,
and this biodiversity is an important rampart against disease. Researchers do not yet have a full picture of the susceptibility of these varieties,
Mogens Nicolaisen, who works with plant pathogens at Aarhus University in Denmark, thinks that endophytes could be a good way to help introduce resistance to both drought
and disease, including pathogens such as wheat rust, an area that Rodriguez says he is pursuing. But
Help for headaches Britain s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has approved the treatment of migraine headaches with a magnetism-based procedure applied through the scalp.
Guidelines issued on 22 Â January said that transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) could be used to reduce headache severity or frequency.
regulators in the United states approved the country s first commercial TMS device to relieve migraine pain.
The Yutu (Jade Rabbit) rover experienced a"mechanical control abnormality as it prepared to hibernate over its second lunar night (roughly equivalent to 14 days On earth)
Pig virus spreads Canada confirmed its first case of porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus on 23 Â January.
which causes diarrhoea and vomiting in pigs, was detected on a farm in Middlesex County, Ontario.
It caused mass epidemics in Europe in the 1970s and 1980s. Last spring, the United states reported its first case (see Nature 499,388;
3 february The World health organization releases its Third world Cancer Report, six years after its previous publication. The latest report will include updated trends in cancer incidence,
prevalence and mortality. go. nature. com/x39hvk
Plant killers protect rainforest diversityvoracious pests may be foes of individual plants, but they can benefit forests.
mountain pine beetles and blister rust fungus once thwarted by the cold, dry climate have devastated the trees,
Polio progress On 13 Â January, India marked its third consecutive year without a case of polio,
clearing the way for the World health organization to certify the Southeast asia region as polio-free. The achievement is a major milestone for India,
where high population density and poor sanitation had enabled the poliomyelitis virus to spread. Pakistan Afghanistan and Nigeria remain the only countries never to interrupt transmission of polio,
and the virus reemerged last year in war-torn Syria and the Horn of Africa. Pesticide risks On 8 Â January, the US Environmental protection agency announced the award of nearly US$500,
Advertisements for the best-selling drug relied on studies showing that it also reduced the risk of stroke and heart attack.
and is being tested at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New york city to help physicians decide how to diagnose
AIDS chief On 9 january, US President Barack Obama nominated physician Deborah Birx to coordinate the country s global AIDS efforts
and administer the US President s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). Birx currently heads the AIDS programme at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. The PEPFAR programme,
which receives about US$6 Â billion per year to distribute antiretroviral drugs and medical care in countries affected by AIDS (see Nature 457,254-256;
2009), received a five-year reauthorization in December 2013. USGS chief US President Barack Obama announced on 9 Â January that he had nominated Suzette Kimball to lead the US Geological Survey.
which also examined the United kingdom s stockpiling programme for the influenza drug Tamiflu (oseltamivir), the authors say that evaluation of the efficacy of Tamiflu
when researching a vaccine against human immunodeficiency virus  1 (HIV-1) by spiking rabbit blood samples with antibodies.
Cancer donation Six US research centres have received a combined donation of US$540 Â million from the estate of late shipping magnate Daniel Ludwig.
Harvard university, the Massachusetts institute of technology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Stanford university and the University of Chicago. Announced on 6 Â January,
the donation brings the total contribution to cancer research by Ludwig and his estate to $2. 5 Â billion.
and cancer progression. go. nature. com/rs9oyb15-17 january The 8th Human Amyloid Imaging meeting in Miami,
as well as other biomarkers linked to Alzheimer s disease. go. nature. com/oi5wkp
Many eyes on Earthimagine using Google earth or other online mapping tools to zoom in on high-resolution satellite images of the planet taken just hours or days ago.
concluded that the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer and other illnesses was overwhelming. The Surgeon general is a spokesperson for the US Department of health.
The Surgeon general's report helped to spur measures to deter smoking, such as US legislation in 1965 that required warning labels to be placed on cigarette packs.
Physician Michele Bloch, chief of the Tobacco Control Research Branch at the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Maryland, calls the study by Levy and colleagues"powerful
because it shows that smoking is not more intractable than other public-health priorities, such as infectious disease."
and to treat reproductive disorders.""To control reproductive problems, it is important to regulate not only inhibitory factors such as infection or stress,
but also accelerative factors such as pheromones, she says. The group is now looking to find similar pheromones and pathways in other economically important livestock animals, such as sheep and cows
The buyout will create a company with annual sales of $15 billion from drugs targeting disorders of the heart, digestive system and central nervous system, among other areas.
His research contributed to the development of enzyme inhibitors used to treat heart disease. ESAPLANET hunter The European space agency announced on 19  February that it will launch a space-based observatory to hunt for planets around nearly one  million stars outside the Solar system.
Sea sickness Europe s seas are in poor health. This is the conclusion of two reports published on 20 Â February detailing the state of the continent s marine ecosystems.
It is expected to include a request for a US$1 â billion fund to fight climate change. 5-7 march The Wellcome Trust biomedical charity hosts the Genomic Disorders 2014 conference in Cambridge, UK.
Researchers will look at the latest findings on the genomic basis of rare disorders and discuss how genome analysis can aid clinical practice
Vietnam on high alert over flu riskthe H7n9 avian-influenza virus that has killed more than 100 people in China in the past year has for the first time been detected in a province bordering Vietnam,
raising the prospect that the disease may take hold across Asia and beyond. It was found in poultry in the live-bird markets of southern China s Guangxi province in late January,
The news comes as a surge in human H7n9 flu cases in China since the start of the year shows signs of abating,
H7n9 flu was detected first in China in March last year, and almost all of the human cases were reported the following month.
which were identified quickly as the places where most human infections occurred. Researchers say that the surge in cases
more than 200 human cases of H7n9 flu have been registered in China this year, compared with around 160 recorded in 2013 (see Ups and downs).
although with a coastal and southerly shift (see The flu front line). Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces are affected the worst.
Last week, the first human case of H7n9 flu was detected in Jilin province in the far north of the country, raising a further risk of spread to North korea and Russia,
The country was hit hard by another avian-flu virus, H5n1, a decade ago, and suffered enormous economic losses and more than 60 Â human deaths.
and mitigate avian-flu outbreaks, including boosting the number of veterinary surgeons and improving diagnostic facilities. To specifically address the risk of H7n9 flu,
Vietnam has banned the importation of poultry from China. It has introduced also twice-weekly monitoring for H7n9 in markets in the north of the country,
says Ben Cowling, a flu epidemiologist at the University of Hong kong.""My impression is that financial concerns had a greater influence this winter compared to last spring.
But the surge in H7n9 flu cases highlights the continuing public-health and possibly pandemic threat that it poses.
in part because the virus causes only mild disease in poultry and thus spreads silently, with human cases typically the first warning of a poultry outbreak.
Disease control The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of defense announced on 13 Â February that they will team up with 26 Â countries,
over the next five years to improve global disease detection and control. They established a Global Health Security Agenda that calls for countries to increase immunizations and share data.
a crowd-funded initiative to develop an HIV vaccine that has sparked debate among scientists. See go. nature. com/hwcnwu for more.
Study revives bird origin for 1918 flu pandemicthe virus that caused the 1918 influenza pandemic probably sprang from North american domestic and wild birds, not from the mixing of human and swine viruses.
Worobey and his colleagues analysed more than 80,000 gene sequences from flu viruses isolated from humans, birds, horses,
pigs and bats using a model they developed to map evolutionary relationships between viruses from different host species. The branched tree that resulted showed that the genes of the deadly 1918 pandemic virus are of avian origin.
A 2005 genetic analysis of the 1918 pandemic virus pulled from a victim s preserved tissue concluded that it most closely matched viruses of avian origin2.
and swine for at least 2 to 15 years before the pandemic and combined to make the lethal virus. Gavin Smith, an evolutionary biologist at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical school at the National University of Singapore,
but there is evidence that the influenza virus evolves at different rates in different hosts faster in birds than in horses, for example.
The analysis also reveals a shared ancestor for almost all avian flu strains and an H7n7 virus that struck down horses and mules throughout North america in 1872.
"Transmission between horses and humans seems to have been key to some epidemics when horses were an intimate part of our lives,
"We now have this idea that the source for a lot of influenza virus we see now worldwide is potentially equine,
is designed to speed up identification of biomarkers and promising drug targets for four diseases: Alzheimer s, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and diabetes.
Once the data are shared, the companies will be free to pursue proprietary research towards their own therapies.
Insider trading On 6 february, a US court found former hedge-fund manager Mathew Martoma guilty of leading a massive insider-trading scheme using confidential information about an Alzheimer s disease clinical trial.
and wane in response to each other, disease and the weather. But for the longest predator-prey study in the world,
Undefined illness The US Institute of Medicine cannot define Gulf war illness, which plagues veterans of the 1990-91 war with symptoms of fatigue, pain, memory loss and gastrointestinal disorders.
The technique could prevent children from inheriting diseases that affect mitochondria, the cell s energy producers, by transplanting nuclear genetic material to a donor cell with healthy mitochondria.
The European commission and Cancer Research UK made the most links, according to an analysis by the publication Scibx.
I wonder if you had a child who was bitten allegedly by a wolf would you okay the rabies test you cite that could be reliable
and perhaps infected with the always fatal rabies disease would you opine about the population of wolves DNR practices of wolf management and the ethical treatment of animals?
@streakygopher...wolves don't pass on rabies. The killed wolf was sent to the University of Minnesota for testing both DNA testing to see
if it was the same wolf that attacked the teen camper and rabies testing. Wolves are not reservoirs of rabies meaning they can't pass it on
but they do sometimes catch it from other animals like foxes.)Mt guess is the testing for rabies is to try to gain an understanding of why the wolf behaved in such a way
if it is even the same animal. There was no reason to kill the first wolf they ran across.
However the author states that wolves cannot pass on rabies. I'm not sure what exactly he's referring to but
I have not seen any evidence that a wolf cannot get infected with rabies via a bite
I would absolutely recommend that they take steps to get treatment for potential rabies infection.
It makes more sense to start rabies shots rather than wait for something that may never happen.
Besides rabies shots are not what they used to be decades ago with a series of very painful shots.
if there was a danger from rabies. Maybe they thought that human suffering was of some import.
Can a wolf pass on rabies or not? A definitive answer please. Thanks cheers. To Dan No-wits The wolf was trapped
Everything from bats to raccoons (which carry rabies. Oh but those traps are okay right
ADF&G performed necropsies and collected samples for disease testing and DNA analyses...Investigators found no evidence in any of the wolves of contributing factors to the attack such as rabies disease defense of food or habituation to human food.
www. adfg. alaska. gov/index. cfm? adfg=pressreleases. pr12062011) Your closing paragraph states: Yes this wolf attacked a person but...
Wolves are not reservoirs of rabies...YES THEY ARE! Where do you get your information?
and kill this individual wolf for rabies and DNA testing. If it is the wrong wolf then that honestly is too bad
while the lab tried to extract the wolfã¢Â#Â#s DNA from his wounds?
Since your obviously not familiar with the real world limitations of such testing you might not know that most wounds like this are cleaned thoroughly
The majority of EMTS and paramedics wouldnã¢Â#Â#t know to thoroughly swab for DNA before they get to work ensuring infection doesnã¢Â#Â#t spread from the gaping scalp lacerations on a 16 year
and allowing hunting again is advised an ill attempt to appease this hatred and shameful politics.
and there isn't much one can do to persuade the ill-informed otherwise once they've seen a graphic photo used to perpetuate those misconceptions...
Either way the boy will need rabies shots because there is no way to be certain so killing the wolf serves no purpose except for some misguided vengeance or revenge.
Maybe we should stop spending money on cancer programs as many different types of cancers have had very little success in curing them.
The added genes are similar to the ones that appear in Oxitec's mosquitos which the company has tested in Brazil bringing down one town's dengue-fever-carrying mosquito population by 96 percent.
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and disease depressing manipulative and hopeless. Manipulative? Maybe. But effective? A new study suggests yes perhaps to a greater extent than any lush landscape.
and cause harm. They can live in us and flourish for a long time before we become sick and or die.
or crippled with sickness. The idea of who owns the moon and how it is exploited also sets the ideas of Mars
or another an average of once every 500000 miles in the U s. Accidents that cause injuries are even rarer occurring about once every 1. 3 million miles.
Technology he says should prevent oblivious drivers from causing harm. Self-driving-car boosters talk about a virtuous circle that starts
HIV is probably the best-known retrovirus. This EAV-HP retrovirus is responsible for inserting that weird gene the one that turns the chicken eggs blue.
While they go to work pollinating our crops bees could simultaneously bring natural microbial pest control agents to help those crops stave off disease.
Scientists have suggested that this colony collapse disorder could be the result of long-term exposure to a class of pesticides called neonicotinoids
Save the bees from disease and they can in turn save our food. CBC News w
but might be present on one-to 10-year timescales âÂ#Âarguably important enough to be a concern in terms of skin cancer rates Tarduno said.
That cosmic radiation blasting the Earth's surface could cause genetic mutations and cancers. Yet when palaeontologists scoured the fossil records looking for signs of mass extinctions
despite the fact that it has been linked to cancer heart disease and birth defects. Al Mauroni director of the USAF counterproliferation center in Alabama and author of Chemical Demilitarization:
however that this dispersal was one of the many factors behind Gulf war Syndrome an illness seen in veterans of the Persian gulf war.
The thermal decontamination is done at extremely high temperatures. There are precursor chemicals which are used the components to make a chemical weapon that aren't the weapon itself yet
A Missed German Opportunity Panic-stricken The french and Algerian troops fled in disorder creating a four-mile gap in the Allied line.
While inflicting serious injury upon the enemy the chemical remained potent in soil for weeks after release:
and a link to the original source is provided where's the harm?@@Starz stop antagonizing lol@Manannan-from the article:
The story of how that wheat got made is a peek into the constant worldwide fight against crop diseases.
The new plants are designed to combat wheat stem rust a fungus that used to take out a fifth of the U s.'wheat crop at once during epidemics through the 1950s.
inducing more cancer deathes and mutations. Here comes the MUTANTS! HERE COMES THE MUTANTS S
the medical techniques described in their report Surgical Management of an Epidemic of Penile Amputations in Siam techniques which they recommend except in cases where the amputated penis had been eaten partially by a duck.
Surgical Management of an Epidemic of Penile Amputations in Siam by Kasian Bhanganada Tu Chayavatana Chumporn Pongnumkul Anunt Tonmukayakul Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn Krit Komaratal and Henry Wilde
#2 Million Americans Annually Get Infections That Antibiotics Can't Curemore than two million Americans get sick every year with infections that defy modern antibiotics.
Such infections may account for as much as $20 billion in extra healthcare costs and $35 billion in lost productivity.
These big numbers come from a report published today by the U s. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
What are antibiotic-resistant infections? How do they arise? Antibiotic-resistant infections develop from using antibiotics.
As the CDC report says Antibiotics are limited a resource. The more that antibiotics are used today the less likely they will still be effective in the future.
or prevent diseases in their livestock. In addition some farmers give their cows pigs and chickens low doses of antibiotics to make them grow faster.
What are the worst infections? The CDC divided the resistant bacteria it knows about into three categories:
The urgent pathogens include: Clostridium difficile and drug-resistant enterobacteriaceae are generally infections people get while they are in hospitals from their catheters breathing machines and other invasive equipment.
What is the CDC going to do about it? The U s. health agency says it will work to prevent infections track infections
when they happen and try to develop new drugs. Most importantly it will need to change how people use antibiotics.
what can lead to<i>C. diff</i>infection. Its spores lie dormant and harmless in the large intestine of certain individuals and are kept normally this way by the bacteria which colonise the intestine.
The headline indicates that every year 0. 6%of the population gets an incurable bacterial infection.
That means in 5 years about 1 in 30 people in the US will have an incurable bacterial infection.
I don't know anyone who has an incurable bacterial infection but I know a TON of gay people.
Where are these 10 million (minus the 115k that died) who have acquired these mega-infections in the last 5 years?
#Is Red Bull Downplaying Research On The Harms Of Mixing Alcohol And Energy Drinks? Step away from the Jà ¤gerbomb.
Peter Miller a psychologist from Austrialia's Deakin University has taken to BMJ (formerly The british Medical Journal) to air his view that energy drink titans like Red Bull are meddling in research that explores the harms of mixing energy drinks
which is similar to having a constant heart attack) Mix in some alchohol and a bad day and you can have charges.
Lets not forget about death from aneurysm or overdose either i
#Your Autumn Guide To Apples Infographic The Baldwin. The Northern spy. Apples are named almost always after old moneyed English people
#The latest outbreak of measles in the U s a preventable disease that the Western hemisphere eradicated decades ago thanks to vaccines has been traced to a megachurch in Texas. The church's senior pastor Terri Pearsons had criticized previously vaccines USA Today reports.
One ill child is 4 months old too young to have received the measles vaccine. On average among 1000 kids who contract measles one gets a serious brain infection called encephalitis and one or two kids die.
After the outbreak the church offered its members free immunizations and urged the congregation to get vaccinated which sounds great.
For one Pearsons suggested that excessive amounts of Vitamin d may bolster the body against measles. There is no evidence to support that.
The Eagle Mountain International Church in Newark Texas released a statement for its members on August 15 the day after the Tarrant County Public health Department informed the church that one of its missionaries who traveled to a country where measles is had still endemic brought the virus
and the disease is only shut down when all are immunized. At the same time she also supported some strange untrue ideas.
In a statement about the church's measles outbreak Pearsons urged adults and kids to take three times as much Vitamin d as their recommended daily allowance.
The recommended schedule has never been linked to getting diseases later in life nor is there any evidence that getting vaccines at a young age is harmful to babies.
First Vitamin d does not protect against measles. Second that's about three times as much Vitamin d as kids and adults need.
Most studies found that adults ingesting at least 10000 international units of Vitamin d a day have increased an risk symptoms such as weight loss excessive urine production heart arrhythmias and damage to the heart
It states that measles was âÂ#Âoeeradicatedã¢Â# in the West. To âÂ#Âoeeradicateã¢Â# a disease means to eliminate it entirely even to the point of the virus itself.
But there is no evidence the virus has been destroyed in the West. It is unclear exactly what evidence the Tarrant County Health Department has that the missionary brought the measles that supposedly infected the congregation.
In fact given the means of measles transmission it is ridiculously easy to stage an artificial infection.
And note the article talks about infants being in danger because they don't receive vaccines for measles at such an early age.
But that would mean that before the vaccination was available measles would have to have been something regularly if not universally contracted in infancy.
And there are no records of that ever being the case. Indeed infants may be protected naturally from the disease.
The article claims that there is no link between vaccines and autism when in reality there is no published link!
Vaccines are your friends that's how we*eradicated*polio and smallpox. Fool. Self correcting problem anyway.
Only the nuts will die from measles. They removed it for the same reason popsci should remove you from here.
Massive breakout of measles in what could have been prevented an easily occurrence. These idiots. I'd doubt they'd say the same of smallpox
if it was still prevalent! Now nothing to fret concerning about earnings. Our company needs home users for their financial reporting.
People who deny that the evolution of bacteria pathogens and microbes will surpass our own immune response are mistaken sadly.
including HIV. Nothing. Enjoy!!!Do not try and bend the spoon. That is impossible. Only try and realize the truth-there is no spoon.
and vaccines are good and proven science (we are rather glad not to have to deal with smallpox anymore).
In obesity rates heart disease bowel and insulin issues we are the leader. Big Pharma the CDC and the FDA hide a lot of medical data.
The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has paid out over $2 billion in compensation to families who have been damaged by vaccines.
The other strengthening factor here is that the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has paid out over $2 billion in compensation to families who have been damaged by vaccines.
young Emily Moller from Houston won compensation following vaccine-related brain injury that once again involved MMR and resulted in autism.
or the court ruled that vaccines had caused brain injury. In turn this injury led to an ASD diagnosis. MMR vaccine was the common denominator in these cases.
âÂ#Â#The report echoes the exact same sentiment that our reader conveyed âÂ#ÂDR.
The account reports âÂ# While repeated studies from around the world confirmed Wakefieldã¢Â#Â#s bowel disease in autistic children and his position that safety studies of the MMR
http://www. whydontyoutrythis. com/2013/07/cdc-admits-98-million-americans-received-polio-vaccine-in-an-8-year-span
-when-it-was contaminated-with-cancer-virus. htmlknowing now what we know about vaccines and medicine you think our previous attempts at vaccines are full proof?
http://www. ncbi. nlm. nih. gov/pubmed/11897278http://www. nvic. org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/April-2010/Vaccine-Contamination-Pig-Virus
You may possible develop nervous system disorders or you may die. Your children may develop problems
me disease invites germs germs don't spark disease (most of the time). When thought of in this manner it explains why some people get deathly ill from a microbe
and others don't show a single symptom (so-called'carriers').'It also explains why vaccinated people still get the exact diseases they were vaccinated for.
It's about the immune system. When it works like it evolved to the endless variety of potential pathogens rarely cause problems.
So if a child has a healthy immune system and gets vaccinated is it the innate system providing protection
but the person still'caught'the disease). In vaccinated people that still get sick that would imply an immune issue that failed to ward off a pathogen early
and thus major symptoms came forth even with vaccine antibodies present. And this happens every time an'outbreak'occurs somewhere (just like the above example.
Flu pertussis measles you name it many of the infected (if not most) are fully or partially vaccinated people.
If you dig through old writings from the last couple centuries many physicians found evidence supporting the idea of immune issues involved with smallpox.
The smallpox vaccine had discovered critics who from their field work that the vaccine didn't work
which to the physicians made it clear smallpox was likely related to nutritional deficiencies (smallpox outbreaks would often follow poor growing seasons which invariably led to malnutrition for many...
If you look through the graphs on the dissolvingillusions website you will see that mortality from many diseases had dropped considerably well before vaccines came to market.
This data supports the idea that people's immune systems were better able to handle pathogens most likely from improved nutrition (less exposure could be another factor
and the clear downward trend every disease was displaying (Scarlet fever is interesting as it followed a similar progression down
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