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NanoViricides, Inc. (OTC BB: NNVC.OB) (the "Company"), said that Anil R. Diwan, PhD, President of the Company, was a participant in a panel on global pharmaceutical strategies at the Fourth Annual Swedish-American Life Sciences Summit held August 20-22, 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden. Speaking in front of a large pharmaceutical and life sciences finance industry group, he enumerated the accomplishments of the Company. He also presented his thoughts on the Company's global strategy for supplying...
By TIM WALKER 1 On the Road Baaba Maal While Baaba Maal's profile is rising in the UK, the Senegalese singer-songwriter hasn't released a studio album since 2000. This is a collection of live tracks from the past decade, available from his website www.baabamaal.tv. 5.99 (download) 2 Segu Blue Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba Bassekou Kouyate made his name playing ngoni - an instrument similar to the lute - alongside Ali Farka Toure. This is his first album with his band, which features three...
Text of report in English by Taiwanese Central News Agency website [By Y.F. Low] Taipei, July 29 (CNA) - Ten members of a Taiwan religious group have been infected with dengue fever while taking part in volunteer relief efforts in Myanmar in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, marking the first case of mass overseas dengue fever infections to be recorded in Taiwan in recent years, a Centres for Disease Control (CDC) official said Tuesday. The cases were discovered after one of the patients, a...
MUAR: Health Minister Datuk Liow Tiong Lai has told state health directors to monitor the current outbreak of chikungunya here closely and find ways to curb its spread. He said to date, 443 patients were confirmed as chikungunya victims, with no fatalities. "In Johor, the disease is under control," he said after meeting Bakri, Muar, Pagoh and Ledang MCA division leaders here yesterday. Chikungunya is a non-lethal viral fever with symptoms similar to that of dengue. Liow said there was also...
A patient with dengue virus was receiving treatment at an Islamabad, Pakistan, hospital, officials have confirmed. The Pakistani National Institute of Health has reported the positive blood test of patient Janas Khan, who was admitted to the hospital with complaint of high fever for three previous days. He has been shifted to observation room of the medical ward, the APP news service reported. Dengue fever, which is transmitted by mosquito bite, usually starts suddenly with a high fever,...
Text of report in English by Japan's largest news agency Kyodo Toyako, Japan, July 8 Kyodo - The leaders of the Group of Eight nations pledged Tuesday to step up efforts to improve public health in Africa by increasing the workforce in the health and medical service sector. In a statement on global health issued on the second day of their summit talks in Hokkaido, the G-8 leaders said they agreed to address a package of measures to enhance the public health system in Africa by such means as...
Text of report in English by Vietnamese newspaper Thanh Nien on 7 July [Unattributed report "Dengue Fever Plagues HCMC and Mekong Delta"] Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta are in the grip of a dengue fever outbreak, with many hospitals overloaded with cases. HCMC Preventative Health Department Deputy Director Nguyen Dac Tho said about 4,000 cases of dengue fever had been reported in the city in the first six months of the year, with about 100 new cases recorded every week. Thu Duc...
Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTCBB:AEMD) disclosed today that it has been featured in a cover story published in Medical Device Daily. The story is accessible online at: www.aethlonmedical.com/pdfs/mdd062508.pdf About Aethlon Medical Aethlon Medical is the developer of the Hemopurifier(R), a first-in-class medical device designed to treat infectious disease. The Hemopurifier(R) provides real-time therapeutic filtration of infectious viruses and immunosuppressive particles, and is positioned...
Diseases brought about by bacterial, viral and parasitic infections are harming the health and energy of millions of the nation's poor, according to a new report released this week. Many of the diseases are typically associated with developing countries, such as Chagas disease and dengue fever, but are also common in poor regions of the United States, the researchers reported.These may even become a bigger problem for the United States as the climate changes, said Dr. Peter Hotez of...
MUMBAI: The rush of patients with fever has begun to worry health officials, with one more person succumbing to febrile illness with acute respiratory distress syndrome on Sunday, taking the toll of monsoon-related illnesses to 10 in June. The 25-year-old victim was admitted to KEM Hospital on June 21 with fever and respiratory problems. "Doctors clinically suspected leptospirosis, though initial tests showed negative for leptospirosis, malaria and dengue," said Dr N Kewalramani chief of...
Latest Dengue fever Reference Libraries
West Nile virus (WNV) is a virus of the family Flaviviridae. It is part of the Japanese encephalitis antigenic complex of viruses and is found in both tropical and temperate regions. It primarily infects birds but can infect humans, horses, dogs, cats, bats, and other mammals. Humans are generally infected through the bites of mosquitoes and about 90% of West Nile Virus infections are without symptoms. The virion is 45-60 nm and covered with a relatively smooth protein surface. It is...
Dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), caused by the dengue virus, is among the spectrum of acute febrile tropical disease and is transmitted by mosquitoes. Occurring mainly in the tropics it can be life threatening and is caused by four closely related virus stereotypes of the genus Flavivirus. It was identified and named in 1779. It has a nickname of "breakbone fever" due to it causing sever generalized bodyache. It tends to be more prevalent in the urban districts of its range...
Flavivirus is a genus of the family Flaviviridae. This genus includes the West Nile Virus, Dengue Virus, Tick-borne Encephalitis virus, yellow fever virus, and quite a few others. Flaviviruses get their name from the yellow fever virus. Flavus means yellow in Latin. Yellow fever was named because if caused yellow jaundice in victims. Mosquitoes and ticks transmit these viruses by biting people. Human infections are usually incidental since humans are unable to replicate the virus. Yellow...
Aedes albopictus (Family Culicidae), the Asian Tiger Mosquito or Forest Day Mosquito, is characterized by its black and white striped legs and small, black and white body. It was native to south-east Asia, and occupied a habitat that spread from Madagascar eastward to New Guinea, and north to the latitude of Korea. The typical member of the Aedes albopictus has a length of about 5 mm. As with other members of the mosquito family, the female is outfitted with an elongated proboscis that she...
