Researchers use altered herpes virus to fight skin cancer
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky - Researchers are using a modified version of the herpes virus to fight the deadliest form of skin cancer, which strikes about 70,000 Americans a year.
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More reason for calm than panic in South Korea's MERS scare
SEOUL, South Korea - Sales of surgical masks surge amid fears of a deadly, poorly understood virus. Airlines announce "intensified sanitizing operations." More than 1,100 schools close and 1,600 people...
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Beyond Lyme, new illnesses, more reason to watch for ticks
WASHINGTON - Lyme disease makes the headlines but there are plenty of additional reasons to avoid tick bites. New research highlights the latest in a growing list of tick-borne threats - a distant...
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New bird flu cases slow, focus turns to preventing repeat
DES MOINES, Iowa - No new bird flu cases have been reported in nearly a week on commercial farms in Minnesota and Iowa, giving government officials, scientists and farmers hope that the worst U.S....
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Experimental Ebola vaccine could stop virus in West Africa
LONDON - An experimental Ebola vaccine tested on thousands of people in Guinea seems to work and might help shut down the waning epidemic in West Africa, according to interim results from a study...
View ArticleState identifies year's first West Nile virus case in Iowa
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - Iowa public health officials have confirmed the first case of West Nile virus this year.
View ArticleNovavax: Early study indicates its vaccine effective vs. RSV
TRENTON, New Jersey - Early research in older adults found an experimental vaccine prevented nearly two-thirds of serious cases of a common, seasonal respiratory virus that annually kills thousands of...
View ArticleTexas lab criticized over handling of monkeys for study
DALLAS - A prestigious laboratory in Texas is under federal investigation after auditors issued a preliminary report saying it did not do enough to prevent the suffering of primates who were infected...
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Son takes up fight against bacteria that took father's leg
SALT LAKE CITY - For the Hatch family, MRSA is personal.
View ArticleNew study finds virus found in Missouri may have spread
ST. JOSEPH, Missouri - A virus that appears to be carried by ticks and was found in Missouri in 2009 may be showing up in other states, according to a St. Joseph doctor.
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Study: Ebola in male survivors can survive up to 9 months
LONDON - Doctors have found that Ebola can linger in some male survivors for up to nine months but aren't sure if that means they might still be infectious, according to new research.
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Ailing Ebola nurse in UK may be rare case of relapse
LONDON - The World Health Organization says it's possible in rare instances for patients who survived Ebola to develop the lethal disease again, when the virus lingering in the body starts to replicate...
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Rio 2016: No viral testing of sewage-filled Olympic waters
RIO DE JANEIRO - Rio de Janeiro's Olympic organizing committee ruled out conducting viral tests of the human sewage-laden waterways where the 2016 Games' aquatic events will be held, following...
View ArticlePublic health officials: 9th West Nile virus in human ID'd
BOSTON - Massachusetts public health officials say a Suffolk County woman is the ninth person to contract West Nile virus in the state this year.
View ArticleIowa State researchers discover mystery piglet tremor virus
AMES, Iowa - A team of veterinary researchers at Iowa State University has discovered the cause of a disease that makes baby pigs involuntary shake which has perplexed hog farmers for more than 90 years.
View ArticleUniversity launches study of mosquito-borne diseases
PITTSBURGH - The University of Pittsburgh's Center for Vaccine Research is starting a $7.6 million study of rare but deadly diseases that might be used in bioterrorism.
View ArticleNew drug to fight respiratory virus in infants
MEMPHIS, Tennessee - Le Bonheur Children's Hospital will begin testing what researchers consider to be a promising new medicine on babies infected with a respiratory virus that's the leading cause of...
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AP test: Rio Olympic water badly polluted, even far offshore
RIO DE JANEIRO - Olympic sailor Erik Heil floated a novel idea to protect himself from the sewage-infested waters he and other athletes will compete in during next year's games: He'd wear plastic...
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South America hacker team targets dissidents, journalists
LIMA, Peru - A shadowy cyber-espionage group that sent malware to the prosecutor whose mysterious death transfixed Argentina early this year has been hitting targets in left-leaning nations across...
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Brazil fears birth defects linked to mosquito-borne virus
RIO DE JANEIRO - In the early weeks of Angelica Pereira's pregnancy, a mosquito bite began bothering her. At first it seemed a small thing. But the next day she awoke with a rash, a headache, a fever...
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