The new bird flu virus outbreak continues to dominate media headlines, as China Central Television reports 14 diagnosed cases and five deaths in the Yangtze River Delta region.
The failure by U.S. and other governments' officials to recognize the connection between Shariah and jihad (of either the violent or stealthy kind) is like refusing to acknowledge that there is a common virus causing an outbreak of swine flu.
It is the largest outbreak since the virus first appeared in the US in 1999.
That afternoon, Craigavon Area Hospital in County Armagh said it was suffering from an outbreak of the virus, but could not afford to close beds.
While the new virus strain in the recent outbreak has affected humans, Canadian officials said it has shown up at a pig farm in Alberta, Canada.
Angola sealed its border with Congo to contain an outbreak of Marburg virus , an incurable Ebola-like haemorrhagic disease that has killed at least 146 people.
China has confirmed two fresh cases of bird flu in Shanghai, as it attempts to contain the latest outbreak of the virus in the east of the country.
Researchers in the United States have already taking steps to crack the genetic code of the virus behind the swine flu outbreak in order to produce a vaccine, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
HIV-contaminated blood between the outbreak of the virus in 1981 and the introduction of obligatory screening of blood donors in 1985 were not allowed representation as civil parties in court, as they would have been in normal criminal proceedings.
And we've learned this again with the recent outbreak of the H1N1 virus.
The health board said 51 patients have been confirmed as having the virus since the start of the outbreak at the end of January.
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The news came as officials in the United States and Mexico, where the outbreak of the H1N1 virus started, were voicing hope that the worst of the new flu strain may be over.
And now comes an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, the contagious and incurable fever that makes its victims bleed to death through their ears, nose, throat, everywhere.
Practically every outbreak of a worm or malicious virus has been preceded by warnings from the security community.
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Health officials have said repeatedly since the outbreak's beginning that the virus cannot be contracted from eating pork.
For the moment, experts say the risk of a mass outbreak remains limited, given that the virus isn't easily spread from human to human.
The first lady's comments came as residents of New York City and surrounding communities dealt with an outbreak of a West Nile-like encephalitis virus that has killed six people.
In 2003 an outbreak of Sars killed about 800 people after the virus spread to more than 30 countries around the world.
In 2002 an outbreak of Sars killed about 800 people after the virus spread to more than 30 countries around the world.
The appearance of the new virus has shaken China, where memories of the crippling 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome remain fresh.
This is less deadly than the previous avian flu outbreak in China six years ago (that H5N1 bird flu virus killed more than 300 people after spreading from China to other countries in 2006).
Michael O'Leary, head of WHO's office in China, told reporters in Beijing on Monday that the international health organization had confidence in China's efforts to track and control the outbreak of H7N9 infections, but that growing interest in the virus globally has prompted WHO to consider sending a team.
Until researchers can determine what animal is the natural host of the virus, and how MERS spreads from the host to humans, each new outbreak is dangerous and mysterious.
Uganda's Ministry of Health declared the outbreak in Kibaale district Saturday after getting confirmatory results from the Uganda Virus Research Institute identifying the disease as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Sudan strain.
But officials feared from the start that the number of imported animals - and the fact that the virus could be carried on the wind or by birds - meant that an outbreak would be difficult to avoid.
That theory received a big boost when tests on the British virus showed it to be virtually identical to the strain that had caused the Hungarian outbreak.
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Twenty years after the global outbreak of AIDS, no one has developed an effective vaccine against the HIV virus, a far more cunning foe than polio, smallpox or measles.
But farmers say vaccinated animals can still carry the virus and pass it on, without showing any symptoms - so jabs could worsen the outbreak in the long run.
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