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Doctors at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have developed a new test which they say will "significantly improve" their ability to identify donor blood carrying hepatitis B, a severe viral infection of the liver...
...feeling is that it is viral," she added, explaining that the incident is not confined to any one House and that there is no "common food source...
...livestock. At least 20% of the continent is desert; experts believe that the process of "desertification" could encompass 45% of Africa in 50 years if current patterns of land use are allowed to continue. Famine and pestilence plague hundreds of thousands of Africans. Livestock diseases like rinderpest, a fatal viral infection known as "the cattle plague," and human maladies like malaria, cholera and bilharziasis, a water-borne urinary-tract disease, are on the rise...
RECOVERING. Edward M. Kennedy, 51, Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, after hospitalization in Washington, D.C.; from a bleeding duodenal ulcer, anemia, viral hepatitis and dehydration; and Rose Kennedy, 93, doyenne of the Kennedy clan; from a viral infection; both at the family's home in Palm Beach...
...well. What is more, Paoletti's Albany-based team has already begun work on a version for malaria, the No. 1 infectious health threat in the world. Says Paoletti: "We see no reason why our approach won't work with virtually any infectious disease, whether it is viral, bacterial or even parasitic in nature." Though some scientists have reservations about the techniques, a senior official of the usually restrained World Health Organization declares, "This is a scientific achievement of the first order...