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Doctors announce that one HIV patient is free from infection due to a complex treatment that included stem cell transplantation resistant to the virus. The American Timothy Ray Brown, who lives in Germany, is being called the “Berlin patient” after spending three years free of the virus that causes AIDS in his body. His case is the result [...]

As compared to seasonal flu, swine flu has been found to be a more likely cause of potentially life-threatening viral pneumonia. The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging doctors to immediately treat suspected swine flu cases, even the young and those who are otherwise healthy of the infected patients, with antiviral medicine. According to a WHO [...]

UK is in the limelight right now with the current global fight against the spread of the Influenza A (H1N1) virus, formerly known as swine flu. Experts have noticed that the country’s anti-flu tactics are far from commendable. Authorities even suspect that the country ‘may be hiding a much larger outbreak.’ Rumors have it that the UK’s ‘caseload [...]

The vaccine specific to Influenza A (H1N1) virus, formerly known as swine flu, will be available by November at the earliest. The predicted production timeline has been set back by two months from the earlier September schedule. The World Health Organization (WHO) has requested the vaccine makers to reserve a portion of the production for poor countries. The [...]

The surgical face mask has become the popular icon of the current Influenza A (H1N1) virus spread, formerly known as swine flu. The shortage of these masks elicits a pandemic fear even ahead of the H1N1 being pronounced a full-blown pandemic. In the US, health authorities admit that there are not enough face masks as there should be. The US Department [...]

After decades of hugely-funded researches, HIV still does not have a vaccine, rendering the disease still incurable and ever so life-threatening. The light may now be shining at the end of the tunnel, though. Researchers have decided to skirt the usual process in vaccine development. In other words, they have discovered that to create a vaccine for [...]

According to the latest update from the World Health Organization (WHO), the Influenza A (H1N1) virus, formerly called swine flu, has infected nearly 10,000 people across 40 countries. To date, 79 people have died from this viral infection. In the preceding 24 hours alone, the count rose by 1,000 cases. At the top of the list in number of cases is [...]

Health authorities in the Mexican capital, the most affected place in the country from the outbreak of the Influenza A (H1N1) virus, have lowered the health crisis alert on the virus, from high to medium alert. Because of this, sports stadiums, cinemas, bars, and restaurants were reopened, but still employing preventive measures. A partial economic [...]

The developed base material or seed strain for the vaccine specific to Influenza A (H1N1) will be given to drug manufacturers and viral vaccine producers by mid-May or late-May, according to Marie-Paule Kieny, World Health Organization (WHO) director of the initiative for vaccine research. The first doses of the vaccine are expected to come out by [...]

Egyptian farmers tried to prevent the slaughtering of their pigs for reasons of preventing the spread of the Influenza A (H1N1) virus, formerly known as swine flu, resulting in clashes with the police in a slum area in Cairo. Pig farmers threw stones and bottles at police officers who came to their farms along with health officials. The police responded [...]