Les gens ont été avertis par les spécialistes des maladies infectieuses de rester loin de chauves-souris dans le monde entier après le décès récent d'un garçon de huit ans mordu en Australie. Le garçon le mois dernier, est devenue la troisième personne dans le pays, à mourir de Australian bat lyssavirus (ABLV), pour lequel il n'existe aucun traitement efficace. Médecins Joshua Francis et Clare Nourse de l'hôpital pour enfants de Mater de Brisbane a averti une conférence de maladies infectieuses que la transmission humain-à...
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French doctors have suggested that the trend for shaving, clipping or waxing pubic hair may encourage the spread of a skin virus. In a letter to a specialist journal, dermatologists in Nice said that over the past decade they had noted a rise in cases of a so-called poxvirus called Molluscum contagiosum, or MCV. MCV causes painless, pearl-like nodules on the skin that usually disappear after a few months among people of normal health. It is sometimes ...
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SARS-like virus infects the body via a docking point in lung cells, says study. Tests on lab cells have highlighted a key entry point for the new virus and suggest bats may be a natural reservoir for it, investigators said. The novel virus has been designated hCoV-EMC, meaning human coronavirus-Erasmus Medical Centre, after the Dutch health institution that spotted it. First detected last year, it is a cousin of Severe Acute Respiratory ...
A new victim in Saudi Arabia has succumbed to a SARS-like virus that has struck in Britain and the Middle East, bringing the global toll from the mystery illness to nine, the World Health Organization said Tueday. The United Nations agency said the Saudi health ministry informed it that a 39-year-old man, who developed symptoms on February 24 and was hospitalised four days later, died on March 2. "Preliminary investigation indicated that the patient ...
