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...More than 400 farms were affected in less than a week in the Foot-and-Mouth Outbreak of 1967 - the worst outbreak of the disease in Britain until the infamous 2001 epidemic. The virus that caused the outbreak - later termed 01 BFS67 - was isolated, and a sample sent to a secure research facility in Pirbright, Surrey, for future work on vaccines...
What doctors didn't know was why these immune cells went into a hyperalert state to begin with. Was it caused by a virus? Was it nutritional, as suggested by a study last week in the journal Neurology, which found that having too little vitamin D, normally produced in the body during exposure to sunlight, increases the risk of MS? Or, were genes to blame for inciting the immune system to rebel? Or, was it, as most experts believe, some combination of all of the above...
...nurses were first arrested back in 1999, after doctors found that the AIDS virus had spread to children at a hospital in Libya's second largest city of Benghazi. Despite international appeals for the medics' release, they were sentenced to death by firing squad in 2004. Appeals ended this week with the upholding of the sentence, an apparent technicality. The case now moves to the country's top legal body, which will have the option to annul the charges or, more likely, some observers say, to commute the sentence, which would allow the nurses (and one Palestinian doctor...
...trick, he says, is not to worry about the entire problem but to find a small fix to get through the task at hand. He describes his approach as a sort of "Seven Habits of Super Effective Geeks." The movement has since spread faster than an e-mail virus, inspiring a slew of popular blogs, such as 43 Folders, LifeHacker and Lifehack.org Taking it a step further this year are a spate of podcasts and even new books on the subject, including Gina Trapani's LifeHacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your...
...fewer HIV/AIDS cases than previously thought, if a new and comprehensive national health survey is to be believed. The survey, which was partially funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and which has not yet been released, suggests that the total number of Indians infected by the virus is far lower than the 5.7 million people estimated in previous studies. The New York Times, which first reported the findings, said that early analysis of the data puts the the total number of people infected at somewhere between 2 and 3 million...