The most recent British citizen to contract the recently discovered SARS-like coronavirus has died according to British health officials.
This is the first Briton to die from the disease. Out of the 12 people worldwide who have been confirmed victims of the virus, half have now died. Continue reading
Mexico’s animal health agency says a bird flu outbreak at seven farms in central Mexico has affected as many as 582,000 chickens. Continue reading
The new coronavirus found in the Middle East that is very similar to the SARS virus that killed 800 people in 2002 has been found to be spread from human to human.
Health officials in the UK made the announcement after a third British citizen was confirmed to be infected with the virus. The scientists say the infected man contracted the disease from a relative. Continue reading
Researchers in the Netherlands and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are resuming a very controversial plan to take the deadly H5N1 virus and make it easier to transmit to humans. Continue reading
A new respiratory illness that is similar to SARS has claimed a fourth and fifth victim. The World Health Organization reported that two people have died in Jordan from the disease. The confirmed cases from Jordan make the eighth and ninth confirmed cases worldwide and the first ones outside of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Continue reading
The disease is called Crimean-Congo Viral Hemorrhagic Fever.
In 30 percent of cases, it’s fatal.
You have likely never heard of the disease, but this tick-borne illness has jumped from animals in Asia and Africa to humans…and has claimed it’s first victim in the UK when a 38-year-old man who contracted the disease in Afghanistan while attending his brother’s wedding. Continue reading
