Virus

HKU scientists look to take the lead on bird flu

6 May 2013

Despite the rush by scientists to decipher the nature of the latest outbreak of bird flu, the virus and its relatives have been under the radar of a local research team for more than a decade.

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H7N9 may mutate 8 times faster than regular flu

10 Apr 2013

The new bird flu could be mutating up to eight times faster than an average flu virus around a protein that binds it to humans, a team of research scientists in Shenzhen says.

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Deadly kidney disease in cats linked to dog virus

20 Mar 2012

A virus similar to one that commonly kills dogs may also be shortening the legendary nine lives of cats.

Hong Hong researchers say they have found the virus in stray cats suffering...

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Scientists must speak to the common man

6 Feb 2012

We live in a world created and defined by science and technology. Yet the people who make a profession out of these fields often act like high priests of old, communicating in esoteric language...

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Virus

27 Nov 2011

Virus
by James Rose
Random Ax Media (e-book)

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The infection of fear

4 Sep 2011

Since the Black Death ravaged most of Europe in the mid-14th century, people have been on alert for its return. Every outbreak of infectious disease gives rise to the inevitable question: Is this...

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Worrying economic parallels between China and India

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Howard Winn

Elsie Leung caught up in Rusal's byzantine politics

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Cracking the code of our immunity

You are holding on to the central pole of a subway car, or talking on your phone, or opening a door. Your hand brushes metal, plastic, wood. And there, where you got a paper cut yesterday, germs...

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Another week's wait for Nipah virus test results

Connections of top-flight gallopers Sacred Kingdom and California Memory may have to wait another week for definitive Nipah virus test results before they know when their horses will be able to...

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Thursday Think Tank

1 Marine police accused of enjoying seafood feast while on duty ... oh, you should see how the vice squad sends off one of its retiring officers

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School advised to close over infections

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Medi watch

Implant to ease the mind

2:40PM

WHO shows political correctness in renaming flu virus strains

How is this for power? The names of various strains of the deadly bird flu virus have been changed to give them a more politically correct nomenclature, following protests by Beijing.

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