Health & Science

Thursday, July 26th 2012 - 19:42 UTC
FAO and OIE call on countries to comply with destruction of “rinderpest” virus samples

The UN's food agency FAO and the OIE (Animal health organization) called on countries on to comply with a 2011 global moratorium and destroy potentially dangerous “rinderpest” virus samples or put them into safe storage.
Tuesday, July 24th 2012 - 01:18 UTC
Cutting back on salty foods helps reduce risk of stomach cancer, says WCRF

Cutting back on salty foods such as bacon, bread and breakfast cereals may reduce people's risk of developing stomach cancer, according to the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF).
Monday, July 23rd 2012 - 04:22 UTC
Scientists discover whales learn to protect their ears from loud noise

Scientists have long known that man-made, underwater noises — from engines, sonar, weapons testing, and such industrial tools as air guns used in oil and gas exploration — are deafening whales and other sea mammals.
Saturday, July 21st 2012 - 06:28 UTC
US members of Congress blame the UN for introducing cholera to Haiti

More than 100 Democrats from the US House of Representatives have called on the UN to take responsibility for introducing cholera to Haiti. It is the latest twist in the allegation that UN peacekeepers unwittingly introduced the disease.
Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 18:29 UTC
US meats’ farming massive use of antibiotics creating more resistant bacteria

The factory farming of cows, pigs, poultry and fish sucks up 29 million pounds—80%—of antibiotics sold in the United States. Many illness-causing bacteria are now resistant to most or all of the antibiotics that once killed them.
Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 08:09 UTC
Cuba suspends carnival festivities to prevent spread of cholera outbreak

Traditional summer carnivals in the eastern Cuban cities of Bayamo and Manzanillo have been suspended due to an outbreak of cholera in the region, authorities said on Wednesday.
Monday, July 16th 2012 - 07:20 UTC
Cuba says cholera outbreak in under control: 3 dead, 158 confirmed cases

The cholera outbreak in eastern Cuba is diminishing and has not spread to other parts of the country, said the government on Sunday.
Tuesday, July 10th 2012 - 21:22 UTC
Brazil plans to combat endemic dengue fever with GM mosquitoes

Brazil said it will breed huge numbers of genetically modified mosquitoes to help stop the spread of dengue fever, an illness that has already struck nearly 500,000 people this year nationwide, killing 74.
Monday, July 9th 2012 - 05:35 UTC
Reports of a serious outbreak of cholera in Cuba; Havana says it is under control

According to the BBC a patient has been diagnosed with cholera in the Cuban capital, Havana, days after three people died in a rare outbreak in the south-eastern town of Manzanillo.
Wednesday, July 4th 2012 - 22:39 UTC
Discovery of the Higgs boson a key to open the mysteries of the universe

Scientists at Europe's CERN research centre have found a new subatomic particle, a basic building block of the universe, which appears to be the boson imagined and named half a century ago by theoretical physicist Peter Higgs.