But the scale of disease will be better assessed in two or three weeks' time, when the holidays are properly over and seasonal factors can no longer be cited for banks being on life support.
DeCode's research has broad implications because this is one of the first drugs to emerge from the newfangled science of genomics, the large-scale study of disease-causing genes.
Avian flu viruses can sometimes spread to domestic poultry and cause large-scale outbreaks of serious disease.
The test, the Uniform Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale, is subjective.
When success is achieved, the world will have a workable, scalable model for global vaccination a blueprint for success that can be used time and again to reach children throughout the developing world and prevent disease on an unprecedented scale.
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"The cause of the disease may not be new, but the scale at which it is occurring has not been observed in recent years, " the WHO said in an email.
It is also involved in the International HapMap Project, a five-country initiative launched in October, to follow up the Human Genome Project with a large-scale study of human genetic variation and its relation to disease.
The patients still had severe disease (a 3 on a 1 to 5 scale), had been sick for at least four years, and were starting to stop responding to their medicines.
Not only did government regulators underplay scientific evidence of the effectiveness and relative safety of DDT, they also failed to appreciate the distinction between its large-scale use in agriculture and more limited application for controlling carriers of human disease.
The Trust's Nigel Hawkins said while the body was anxious to ensure the disease had no chance of spreading, allowing climbers and walkers to scale Ben Nevis would not jeopardise containment plans.
At the nearer end of the time scale, genetic tests are allowing people to choose suitable therapies and lifestyles to beat disease.
That job involved building regional disease surveillance systems in the Mideast, something he now hopes can be built on a global scale.
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