Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome News

Sheela Basrur became the face of public health for the city during the SARS outbreak of 2003.

Main Category: Flu / Cold / SARS Also Included In: Seniors / Aging ; Caregivers / Homecare Article Date: 22 Jul 2008 - 5:00 PDT The greatest danger in a pandemic flu outbreak is that it could spread quickly and ...

Main Category: Public Health Also Included In: Bird Flu / Avian Flu ; Flu / Cold / SARS ; Respiratory / Asthma Article Date: 23 Jul 2008 - 1:00 PDT An influential Lords Committee have today reported that a new ...

To cope with skyrocketing oil prices, Australia's "flying kangaroo" is looking to cut costs and slim down.

Here's another must-read from the Annals Medical Academy of Singapore : Risk communications: In search of a pandemic .

MALAYSIA may raise gaming tax for the first time since 1999 to boost revenue, said several research firms.

HealthMap an interesting global health alert system that was recently accounted in a PLoS Medicine article Surveillance Sans Frontieres: Internet-Based Emerging Infectious Disease Intelligence and the HealthMap ...

Font In the late 1990's, almost two thirds of high school seniors had never used illegal drugs, even marijuana.

Around 200 foreign maids working in Hong Kong staged a protest Sunday to demand a bigger pay rise after the government increased their pay by 12.8 US dollars a month.

Main Category: Flu / Cold / SARS Also Included In: Public Health ; Bird Flu / Avian Flu Article Date: 08 Jul 2008 - 2:00 PDT Panic, staffing issues and geographic boundaries are some of the challenges that ...

Instituto de Biologi ́ a Molecular y Celular, Campus de Elche, Universidad “Miguel Herna ́ ndez”, E-03202 Elche-Alicante, Spain Received May 5, 2008 Abstract: The severe acute ...

Disease outbreaks don't always send an RSVP before they arrive -- you've really got to look for them, particularly in the early stages.

Main Category: Flu / Cold / SARS Also Included In: Bird Flu / Avian Flu ; Respiratory / Asthma ; Public Health Article Date: 09 Jul 2008 - 1:00 PDT printer friendly view / write opinions rate article Home ...

A Filipino physicist who pioneered in the Philippines research on cutting-edge photonics won the top prize in an Association of Southeast Asian Nations Science and Technology competition.

The summer tourism season has arrived in Old Montreal, but the tourists have not.

The streets, restaurants, and boutiques of this picturesque 18th-century neighborhood are usually crowded with Americans on holiday. But this year, they're eerily quiet, and area businesspeople say this could be the worst year yet for an industry that's taken a beating since 2001.

"Each year there's been a challenge: We had 9/11 and the SARS outbreak, the exchange rate, and high gas prices," says Gisele Beauvais Olivier as she arranges Quebecois ceramics in her boutique on Rue St Paul. "Americans are very good customers who appreciate handicrafts, but they are not here as usual."

The Rimax Staff On Time Palm Scan is being unveiled today, marking an industry first in biometric technology.

Main Category: Flu / Cold / SARS Also Included In: Immune System / Vaccines Article Date: 06 Jul 2008 Medicago Inc.

Tel: +86 27 83662391, Fax: +86 27 83662391, E-mail: qning{at}tjh.tjmu.edu.cn Received February 4, 2008; Accepted March 11, 2008 Abstract Fibrin deposition was universal in the lungs of SARS patients and fgl2 ...

Mike Rowse, the career civil servant at the centre of the HarbourFest debacle, denied he was ever charged with organising the ambitious series of concerts, saying it was the responsibility of the American ...

LONDON - An increase in Britons traveling to malaria-infested countries has steadily increased the number of imported cases of the disease over the past 20 years, researchers said on Friday.These ...