Health ministry of West Africa stated that more than 350 people dies of cholera outbreak since June.
The federal health ministry reported that the recent outbreak of cholera happened due to flooding of the recent heavy rain and it sickened more than 6,400 people and more than 350 people died, and the ministry added that the epidemiological evidence indicates the outbreak of cholera would spread to entire country.
The ministry further told that most of the rural Nigerians do not have clean and safe drinking water and they lack access to safe …

The average death rate due to influenza is frequently quoted as 36,000 per year. But the analysts say it as misleading and in -correct and they told that it varies according to the influenza strain for the particular year.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday the average figure for death given as 36,000 is too high.
CDC in its weekly report said that the actual figure would be around 23,000 and even that figure is not correct when strictly speaking since it varies from year to year over the …

The people in U.S. begin to prepare for having their seasonal flu shots as children in U.S returns to school.
According to CDC, about 5 to 20 percent of the population is affected by flu every year in U.S. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says that every children above six months to be vaccinated. Already the U.S. vaccine manufacturing companies started their sending of vaccines even by last July and about 155 million doses of vaccines are needed by this year to prevent seasonal flu.
Almost all vaccines for …

The German court convicted the 28 year old pop singer Nadja Benaissa for grievous bodily harm by knowingly exposing HIV virus to two men.
The pop singer was given with two year suspended sentence though she could have been given with 10 years imprisonment. Prosecutors preferred this lenient sentence because Benaissa had confessed and regretted her act of knowingly exposed the virus to two men.
The trial conducted at Darmstadt court in western Germany and in the court Benaissa accepted her mistake and told that she had hidden the facts about her …

The head of the National Institute of Health (NIH) told that the new research work would be stopped immediately and however some of the works in the hand would be continued for some time. This was the consequence of the ruling by a district court at U.S. which also banned Obama’s order of 2009 to expand fund for embryonic stem cell research.
The district court Judge Royce Lamberth ruled and blocked the Obama’s order regarding embryonic stem cell research and the judge indicated in his ruling that it is conflicting …

The state of Michigan joins newly by receiving recalled eggs and hence the total number of states that recalled tainted eggs stood at 23. So far the states received about half a billion eggs.
The federal government said that it investigates the egg recall and told about 1,300 Americans have been sickened. Bill Marker, who represents 35 families whose members contracted salmonella, told CNN that the FDA did not have enough resources to inspect in this plant and in many times we have to come in, including media and lawyers to …

The animal study made evaluated AVI-7100 which works against the deadly H1N1 swine flu virus had the quality of promising results in destroying the virus. The data collected from the study results showed its efficacy and standard as good than Tami flu.
The study results revealed that AVI-7000 worked better than the saline solution and Tami flu against the swine flu H1N1 virus.
The analysis of the two studies made on animals revealed that the affected portion of the lungs were very mild treated with AVI-7000, whereas in Tami flu and saline …

The court of U.S. posed a blockage against President Obama’s order in expanding embryonic stem cell research.
The federal judge on Monday passed the order saying Obama’s order is violating the ban on destruction of embryos for research purposes and the fund used for the same is illegal.
The American scientists indulged in embryonic stem cell research shocked to hear the court’s ruling.
Dr.George Q. Daley, director of the stem cell transplantation program at Children’s Hospital Boston told that this court ruling will disrupt all the works carried out by many labs …

Swine flu takes its toll again and five died on Saturday and on Sunday in Pune. There by the toll rises to 362 in the city.
The district information officer released the details of the victims. 1. Dattu Sitaram Talape(55) of Kharpur village near Pune. 2.Varsha Vishnu Kokate(27) of Karjule Harya village of Ahmednagar 3. Tanaji Vaman Kshirsagar(40) of Chintamaninagar in Hadapsar 4.Dattatray Chandrasekar(21) of Manjari village in Pune 5. Dilshad Anwar(26) of Gavalinagar.
The fresh cases of swine flu cases also rising on Sunday and 16 fresh cases recorded on Sunday. …

The American Red Cross Northern Ohio made an urgent call for blood donors to-day.
The Red Cross is monitoring the entire blood requirement for hospitals and emergency services in order to meet out the demand.
Christy Chapman, Communications Manager for the Northern Ohio Region of the Red Cross told that there is a critical need of blood donors now and it is very difficult in recruiting the donors by this summer. Enough blood donors to be received to meet out the requirements for the community hospitals and for the emergency patient …