Health & Science

• Monday, April 27th 2009 - 14:34 UTC

  UK has enough anti-viral drugs to treat 50% of the population

  

  Health experts in Britain are on high alert to prevent the spread of a new human strain of the swine flu virus. Britain’s NHS also revealed it has a stockpile of £ 500 million of Tamiflu anti-viral drug which has proved effective on patients in Mexico where the outbreak seems to have started.

• Monday, April 27th 2009 - 14:29 UTC

  Swine flu deaths in Mexico 103; US declares public health emergency

  

  Mexican Public Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova said on Sunday that the number of deaths from swine flu virus had increased to 103, with 1.614 suspect cases and 400 in hospitals. Meantime in neighbouring United States the Health and Human Services, HHS, issued a nationwide public health emergency declaration.

• Monday, April 27th 2009 - 14:00 UTC

  Vaccination of the Americas campaign launched in Paraguay

  

  Paraguay’s president Fernando Lugo and the Pan-American Health Organization, PHO, launched Sunday a new edition of the “Vaccination in the Americas” week which has the purpose of vaccinating 30 million people against a wide range of diseases that still ravage the region.

• Sunday, April 26th 2009 - 17:12 UTC

  Skate recovered three years after tagging in the Falkland's waters

  

  THE fishery around the Falkland Islands is rich and diverse, with the main fisheries focussed on a variety of squid and finfish. Furthermore, the area is also widely inhabited by a number of skate species, a family closely related to sharks.

• Sunday, April 26th 2009 - 08:45 UTC

  Mexico swine flu spreads overseas - Alert in airports

  

  Mexico has raised the probable death toll from an outbreak of swine flu to 81, including 20 already confirmed.

• Saturday, April 25th 2009 - 07:16 UTC

  Swine flu outbreak in Mexico kills 68, infects hundreds; schools closed

  

  At least 68 people have died and hundreds of others have been infected in a viral outbreak in Mexico suspected to have been caused by a strain of swine flu. The World Health Organization thinks the virus may be behind the deaths in Mexico since mid-March.

• Friday, April 24th 2009 - 10:21 UTC

  Earth like planet, Exoplanet E, discovered by Chile Observatory

  

  The lightest and most earth-like planet ever discovered outside our solar system was identified this week using data from Chile’s La Silla observatory, said the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO).

• Friday, April 24th 2009 - 09:50 UTC

  “Incorrect” dosage killed the 21 polo ponies admits pharmacy

  

  A Florida state veterinary pharmacy has revealed that the dosage of the medication it prepared for 21 polo ponies that died last weekend minutes before an international competition was “incorrect”. Franck's Pharmacy said the horses' medication was prepared “on an order from a veterinarian”.

• Wednesday, April 22nd 2009 - 12:24 UTC

  Three cases of rare newly-born with dengue in north Argentina

  

  Two children were born with dengue in the northern Argentine province of Salta, more precisely in the town of Orán after their mothers caught the mosquito transmitted disease in the last week of pregnancy, according to what was reported.

• Wednesday, April 22nd 2009 - 01:58 UTC

  Dengue infested Paraguay admits “isolated” cholera cases

  

  Health authorities in Paraguay acknowledged this week the existence of an outbreak of cholera in an isolated Indian settlement in the western region of Chaco. Paraguay, as well as neighbouring Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina are also suffering a serious outbreak of the mosquito transmitted dengue