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Domestic and international tourism spending in Canada was flat in the fourth quarter of 2008, Statistics Canada reported from Ottawa Monday. Tourism spending in Canada edged down 0.1 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008, while spending by international visitors to Canada was unchanged during the quarter, after declining in the three previous quarters, the report said. This was the first time tourism spending in Canada posted back-to-back declines since 2003, when the tourism sector was hit...
Research results with animal testing encouraging BELGRADE, Serbia, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Hard to Treat Diseases (HTDS) www.htdsmedical.com announced the results of preliminary testing of a potential treatment for Multiple Sclerosis. Testing involved the use of a combination of drugs; ribavirin and tiazofurin on animal test subjects. Administration of ribavirin and tiazofurin in combination attenuated or weakened the proliferation of autoreactive T lymphocytes and their...
Donning a face mask is an easy way to boost protection from severe respiratory illnesses such as influenza and SARS, Australian researchers said. Lead author Raina MacIntyre of the University of New South Wales found adult mask wearers in the home were four times more likely than non-wearers to be protected against respiratory viruses, including the common cold or severe acute respiratory syndrome. However, convincing a reluctant public and healthcare workers to wear masks may prove to be...
Donning a face mask is an easy way to boost protection from severe respiratory illnesses such as influenza and SARS, new research from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has found, but convincing a reluctant public and health workers is proving a struggle.In a world-first clinical trial of the efficacy of masks, researchers found adult mask wearers* in the home were four times more likely than non-wearers to be protected against respiratory viruses, including the common cold.The...
Humans are responsible for creating conditions that change harmless germs into infectious diseases, the winner of U.S. Lasker Award for medical research said. The enemy is us, Stanley Falkow said, paraphrasing a famous quotation from Walt Kelly's Pogo comic strip. Human behavior often has changed germs that minded their own business for millennia into serious troublemakers, Falkow told USA Today. Examples include Legionnaire's disease, the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, and the SARS...
Dr. Julie Gerberding, head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, says she is leaving her post to make way for President-elect Barack Obama's team. Gerberding and other senior CDC leaders are submitting their resignations effective Jan. 20, the day Obama is sworn into office, CNN reported Saturday. CDC employees were notified of the resignations by e-mail Friday evening. William H. Gimson III, the CDC's chief operating officer, is to act as interim head of the agency until Obama names a...
Scientists have developed a three-dimensional model of a virus that causes SARS, which they believe will assist future efforts to battle the disease. Dutch researchers created the model using a hepatitis coronavirus from mice, they reported in the Jan. 13 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."I think we can translate what we found for this virus to the SARS virus," Berend Jan Bosch, a virologist at Utrecht University who worked on the study, told...
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vical Incorporated (Nasdaq: VICL) today announced that results from a Phase I clinical trial of a DNA vaccine for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and published in the November 25 issue of Vaccine(1), demonstrated that the vaccine was well-tolerated, and induced neutralizing antibody responses in 80% of the vaccinees and T-cell immune responses in all vaccinees. The Phase I trial...
SARS "“ severe acute respiratory syndrome "“ alarmed the world five years ago as the first global pandemic of the 21st century. The coronavirus (SARS-CoV) that sickened more than 8,000 people "“ and killed nearly 800 of them "“ may have originated in bats, but the actual animal source is not known.In an effort to understand how SARS-CoV may have jumped from bats to humans, a team of investigators from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of North Carolina at Chapel...
A Purdue University researcher has created a compound that prevents replication of the virus that causes SARS and could lead to a treatment for the disease."The outbreak of SARS in 2003 led to hundreds of deaths and thousands of illnesses, and there is currently no treatment," said Arun Ghosh, the Purdue professor that led the molecular design team. "Although it is not currently a threat, there is the concern that SARS could return or be used as a biological weapon. It is...
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The masked palm civet (Paguma larvata), also known as the gem-faced civet, can be found in Southeast Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. Its range includes China and the islands of Sumatra, Borneo, Taiwan, and the island chains of Nicobar and Andaman. It does occur in Japan, but experts do not know if it is native or introduced in that area of its range. It prefers a habitat within temperate deciduous forests and tropical rainforests. The masked palm civet resembles most other civets in body...
The SARS coronavirus is the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). In 2003 the World Health Organization issued a press release stating that the coronavirus identified by a number of laboratories was the official cause of SARS. It causes severe illness marked initially by systemic symptoms of muscle pain, headache, fever, followed in 2-10 days by the onset of respiratory symptoms, mainly cough, dyspnea, and pneumonia. SARS patients have a decrease in the number of...
