Contagious and Infectious Diseases

The UN AIDS chief said 50 million people are at risk from the disease in China and the government must do more to reach out to civil society and work with vulnerable groups such as homosexuals. China has 319,877 confirmed HIV cases ...

Zimbabwe's ailing public health system will receive a 180 million US dollar boost to fight HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria from the Global Fund, state media reported Wednesday. The government and the Global Fund signed for the release of the money ...

China has detected eight people infected with mutated forms of the swine flu virus, a health official said Wednesday, but flu drugs and vaccines still work against it. Flu viruses mutate easily, and scientists have been closing watching for signs that the ...

China reports 8 cases of swine flu virus mutation; says drugs, vaccine still effective China has detected eight cases of swine flu mutation, a health official said Wednesday, amid longstanding concerns among scientists that the virus could change into a more dangerous ...

Ebony Bennett, right, from Jersey City, New Jersey, holds her son Jayden Carroll, 1, at the Greyhound Bus Station in Washington, on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, while waiting to board a bus to North Carolina to visit her father for Thanksgiving. "I'm ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China must be alert to any mutation or changes in the behavior of the H1N1 swine flu virus because the far deadlier H5N1 bird flu virus is endemic in the country, a leading Chinese disease expert said. Zhong ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization is looking into reports in Britain and the United States that the H1N1 flu may have developed resistance to Tamiflu in people with severely suppressed immune systems, a spokesman said Tuesday. Britain's Health Protection Agency ...

UNAIDS report says heterosexual sexual contact main cause for HIV's spread in China The virus that causes AIDS is now spreading fastest in China through heterosexual sex, a trend demanding new strategies to stave off a rebound in the epidemic after years ...

Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) speaks as he shows the agency's new report entitled UNAIDS Outlook 2010 during its launch press conference ahead of World AIDS Day on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 in Shanghai, ...

Cases of antibiotic-resistant staph infections usually acquired in the community are growing in the United States and rapidly spreading to hospitals, researchers said Tuesday. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which can penetrate wounds and cause lethal bloodstream and lung infections, kills about 20,000 ...