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Doctors want 'cured' HIV victim to have more tests

Doctors in the UK are urging a man to come forward for more tests after he apparently shook off the HIV virus.

13 Nov 2005

Bird flu in two Kuwait birds a far weaker strain

According to health officials in Kuwait two birds infected with avian flu have been destroyed, but it seems the strain of the virus present in the birds is weaker than the one which has killed more than 60 people in Asia.

13 Nov 2005

Another bird flu death as $1 billion plan revealed to fight virus

The announcement by Health experts of a $1 billion plan to halt the spread of bird flu came at the same time as Indonesia said initial tests showed the virus had killed a 16-year-old girl.

9 Nov 2005

Syphilis on the rise in U.S. - high risk sex among men to blame

According to an annual report on sexually transmitted diseases (STD), by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of U.S. syphilis cases rose for the fourth year in 2004, and that increase was mainly among men.

9 Nov 2005

Will the world beat bird flu?- experts doubt it

As international health experts finalised plans at a UN conference in Geneva, on the spread of bird flu, Vietnam, reported its 42nd death from the avian virus.

9 Nov 2005

More dead birds in Malaysia raises bird flu alarm

Concern has been raised in Malaysia after a second flock of pigeons was found dead in the country's northwest.

8 Nov 2005

Chinese insurer offers bird flu cover

According to Chinese media sources a Chinese insurance company is offering a life policy specifically for bird flu.

8 Nov 2005

Report warns bird flu could cause world meat trade crisis

According to the latest report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), one of the effects of a major outbreak of bird flu in the Europe would be higher world market prices for poultry.

8 Nov 2005

Dead poultry in Saudi tested for bird flu

According to local media reports, veterinary authorities are carrying out tests in order to determine whether poultry found dead in a farm in southwestern Saudi Arabia were infected with the bird flu virus.

8 Nov 2005

Bird flu will cost as much as $800bn

At a global conference at the World Health Organisation (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, the World Bank has warned a bird flu pandemic could cost the global economy up to $800bn, which amounts to 2% of the global economy.

7 Nov 2005

About turn by China over suspected bird flu death

In a complete about turn Chinese authorities have now called in the World Health Organisation (WHO) to examine three suspected human cases of bird flu, including one of a girl who died.

7 Nov 2005

Getting the picture on bird flu

A massive cull of poultry in a northeastern part of China, hit by the country's latest bird flu outbreak, will be carried out by some 1,700 officials and backed up by armed police, who have been sent to the affected county in Liaoning province to slaughter the birds.

7 Nov 2005

Global battle plan to beat bird flu

In a three-day meeting in Geneva as many as 400 health and veterinary officials representing international agencies, are attempting to establish a global strategy to stop the spread of the deadly H5N1 virus triggering a human pandemic of bird flu.

7 Nov 2005

Armed police in China guard mass poultry cull to halt bird flu

As a result of the fourth outbreak of bird flu in just three weeks, Chinese health authorities have ordered a mass cull of cull of poultry in the north-east of the country.

7 Nov 2005

Important that GP's take flu pandemic threat seriously

Family doctors are advised to plan their response to managing a flu pandemic in this week's BMJ.

7 Nov 2005

Mongolian birds provide Avian influenza virus samples

Avian influenza virus samples collected from wild birds in Mongolia by field veterinarians from the New York City-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have been selected by the World Health Organization to be part of a new human pandemic influenza vaccine currently in development.

7 Nov 2005