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Bacteria Fights Off Viruses

Wednesday, September 5, 2012
There may be a good reason why our bodies are covered with bacteria: It turns out that bacteria fights off viruses.

Science Daily quotes researcher David Artis as saying, "From our studies in mice, we found that signals derived from these beneficial...
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Can You Catch a Disease from Restaurant Dishes?

Monday, July 25, 2011
Can you catch the flu from your restaurant plate? It's an important question: There are 20 million cases of acute gastroenteritis and 128,000 hospitalizations a year that are attributed to food-borne illness. Food expert Melvin Pascall says, "While there...
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Deadly Flu Virus Samples Found

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Agence France-Press - All samples of adeadly fluvirus that were mistakenly sent abroad by a US institutehave now been accounted for, according to the World HealthOrganization. The H2N2 strain is similar to the 1957 fluvirus that killed up to four million people around the worldin the late 1950s, and should not have been sent...

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New Viruses Tracked in Hot Zones

Tuesday, February 4, 2003

AIDS is considered to be a new virus, because it has only recently mutated so that it can invade human beings. Virus hunters are now trying to catch another newly created viruses early, so they can take preventative action to keep it from spreading. They're looking for the Nipah virus in the "hot zones" of Australia, Malaysia, India, Sumatra...

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