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Two addition human H5N1 avian influenza cases reported, awaiting WHO confirmation

(The Global Dispatch) The Phnom Penh Post says two children, an 11-year-old boy from Kampong Chhnang province and an 8-year-old boy from Kandal province, were admitted last week to Phnom Penh’s Kantha Bopha Hospital with H5N1 avian flu. Unfortunately, the elder boy died from the infection, while the eight year old is in stable condition. Read More »

March 11, 2014
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, Agents & Toxins, International, and Public Health
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Cambodia Ministry of Health releases details on new H5N1 avian influenza cases

(The Global Dispatch) In a follow-up to a story yesterday, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Kingdom of Cambodia and the World Health Organization (WHO) put out a joint press release confirming and providing more details on the two human H5N1 avian influenza cases. The 7th case, an 8-year-old boy from Spean-Dek village, Prek-TunLoab Read More »

March 11, 2014
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Pharma refuses to ensure access to lifesaving Hepatitis C treatment at global meeting

(Medical News Today) Thirty-eight activists from 22 countries joined forces at the first-ever Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) World Community Advisory Board (CAB) to demand equitable access to treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) from six multinational pharmaceutical companies. Yet AbbVie, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead, Janssen, Merck, and Roche refused to provide a plan for equitable access Read More »

March 3, 2014
| Filed under Agents & Toxins, Biosafety, and Public Health
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Cambodia reports 4th and 5th H5N1 avian influenza cases in two female pre-teens

(The Global Dispatch) The Kingdom of Cambodia appears to be showing a continuation of the increased numbers of human H5N1 avian influenza from 2013, where they reported 26 cases. The Cambodian Ministry of Health reported Thursday two additional cases of the dangerous virus in two girls, ages 10 and 11.

March 2, 2014
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Scientists describe deadly immune ‘storm’ caused by emergent flu infections

(EurekAlert) Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have mapped key elements of a severe immune overreaction—a “cytokine storm”—that can both sicken and kill patients who are infected with certain strains of flu virus. Their findings, published in this week’s online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also clarify the Read More »