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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 [...]

When it comes to browsing and downloads, protection never hurts. If you visit various sites throughout the day is possible that in some of them may encounter malicious files and viruses from various species. It is not always possible to predict the reliability of a site or not. So the best alternative is to rely on antivirus programs. They are responsible [...]

By now, the world has already realized that the dreaded pandemic-level disease called swine flu, also known as Influenza A (H1N1) ‘isn’t as contagious and deadly as feared.’ Unfortunately for Big Pharma and vaccine manufacturers who want to cash in on the intended pandemic paranoia (remember HIV/AIDS?), ‘the initial fear that swine flu [...]

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 [...]

In 1976, swine flu vaccine failed, causing paralysis to hundreds of people. This irreparable damage to the nervous system has been named Guillain-Barre syndrome. To this day, medical experts are clueless as to why the 1976 swine flu vaccine paralyzed so many people. They are equally clueless if the 2009 swine flu vaccine can produce the same devastating [...]

Vaccine manufacturers and drug makers are racing with one another in their respective swine flu vaccine development and production before fall which is the estimated start of the next flu season. Another possible flu outbreak is expected. Ordinarily, an adjuvant ‘can include various forms of aluminum and are typically used with other vaccines in [...]

The method used in estimating the proportion of people who will die if infected with the swine flu virus is inherently flawed, according to UK researchers. The present death rate estimate used in the UK and the US is 0.5 percent or that for every 1000 people infected, about 5 of them will die from the infection. There are reasons why this method of [...]

The virtual security firm Sophos issued a warning about a virus transmitted by an email with supposed music files with novel and photos of Michael Jackson. The warning was passed on this Thursday (2). The email arrives in your inbox with the subject “Remembering Michael Jackson “ and is sent by the sender “sarah@michaeljackson.com [...]

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 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 [...]