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'Urgent action needed to prevent human pandemic'

Warning that bird flu could "spin out of control," claiming millions of lives, if it acquired the ability of human-to-human transmission, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has asked the......

China, WHO at loggerheads over SARS figures

China and the World Health Organisation are at loggerheads over the interpretation of the fall in the number of reported new cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in the world's most populated......

SARS virus spreads in Asia

The Philippines reported its first fatalities from SARS on Friday, while Canada sought to reassure the world that Toronto was safe despite a travel warning by world health authorities and a rising......

SARS spreads to new region in China

Two people in China's Inner Mongolia region have died from the SARS virus, the first time the disease has been reported in the far-flung north, the official Xinhua news agency said.A total of 10......

SARS: Health workers fear newer infection routes

Doctors still haven't pinned down exactly how a deadly flu-like virus is spreading and more cases are pointing to possible new ways it is using to pass from one victim to another.A top Hong Kong......

JV for affordable vaccines to launch next year

MSD Wellcome Trust Hilleman Laboratories, the joint venture to develop affordable vaccines for low-income countries, will take off by next year. The assurance was given by Mervyn J Turner, chief......

WHO sees 'very low' risk of further Zika spread due to Olympics

‘We have no evidence at all that Zika has functionally evolved’ IMAGE: Members of Team USA, Gabby Douglas, Simone Biles and Ryan Lochte during their Road to Rio......

Delaying Rio Games would give false security on Zika: WHO

IMAGE: The logos of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and Rio 2016 Paralympic Games are pictured next to a message on a screen that reads "Message about Zika" during a media briefing in Rio de Janeiro,......

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David Heymann

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'Urgent action needed to prevent human pandemic'

China, WHO at loggerheads over SARS figures

SARS virus spreads in Asia

SARS spreads to new region in China

SARS: Health workers fear newer infection routes

JV for affordable vaccines to launch next year

WHO sees 'very low' risk of further Zika spread due to Olympics

Delaying Rio Games would give false security on Zika: WHO

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