AP – Authorities killed rats and fleas on Tuesday as they disinfected a town sealed off after three people died of pneumonic plague in a remote farming town in northwestern China, according to the provincial health department.
AFP – Health officials raised the alarm about a strain of swine flu that is resistant to the Tamiflu treatment as the virus claimed more lives on Tuesday, with Vietnam reporting its first fatal case.
AP – Electronic medical records are a life-or-death issue at Sac-Osage Hospital not necessarily just for the patients, but for the hospital itself.
AP – Thousands of families carry the gene that causes sickle cell disease and don’t know it even though almost every newborn today is tested for what’s called “sickle cell trait,” and starting this summer more college athletes are getting tested, too.
Reuters – Malaria may have jumped to humans from chimpanzees much as AIDS did, U.S. researchers reported on Monday in a study they hope could help in developing a vaccine against the infection.
Reuters – Frequent handwashing and the wearing of face masks at home can help reduce the transmission of influenza viruses within the household if the measures are implemented in good time, a study in Hong Kong has found.
AFP – Health officials said they had found cases of Tamiflu-resistant swine flu along the US border with Mexico, as India and South Africa announced their first deaths from the A(H1N1) virus.