http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Chinese officials had confirmed the outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu among poultry in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, state media reported Sunday, quoting the ministry of agriculture. http://www.physorg.com/news159365820.html Medicine & Health Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:30:48 EST news159365820 For her doctorate, Camilla Sekse studied how viral DNA can be transmitted from pathogenic to non-pathogenic E. coli. Viruses that infect bacteria in this way are called bacteriophages. Her findings reveal that such transmission of bateriophage between bacteria can occur, and that in the case of E. coli it can transform a harmless bacterium into one capable of causing disease in man. http://www.physorg.com/news159116374.html Biology Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:00:43 EST news159116374 The Hong Kong flu pandemic was responsible for more than 700,000 deaths worldwide in the late 1960s, with major disease outbreaks in Europe in the winter of 1969-1970. A number of studies have been conducted to determine if prenatal exposure to the influenza virus may result in mental disorders that affect a small portion of the population, but no studies have explored the possible effects of prenatal exposure on the mean intelligence in the general population. A new study found that early prenatal exposure to the Hong Kong flu may have interfered with fetal cerebral development and caused reduced intelligence in adulthood. The study is published in Annals of Neurology. http://www.physorg.com/news159024625.html Medicine & Health Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:31:00 EST news159024625 (AP) -- An extensive investigation has failed to determine how E. coli bacteria was introduced into a northeastern Oklahoma restaurant linked to hundreds of illnesses and one death, the state health board said in a report released Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news158516911.html Medicine & Health Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:29:38 EST news158516911 (AP) -- Americans didn't suffer more food poisoning last year despite high-profile outbreaks involving peppers, peanut butter and other foods, according to a government report released Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news158504012.html Medicine & Health Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:54:09 EST news158504012 An Egyptian toddler has contracted bird flu, the 62nd recorded case since the first outbreak of the disease in the country in 2006 and the second this week, state-news agency MENA reported on Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news157986197.html Medicine & Health Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:03:45 EST news157986197 (AP) -- A nationwide recall of 2 million pounds of pistachios in the wake of a salmonella scare has increased calls for more stringent food testing laws. http://www.physorg.com/news157829830.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:39:00 EST news157829830 (AP) -- In another food scare sure to rattle consumers who watched the national salmonella outbreak in peanuts unfold, federal food officials are now warning people not to eat any food containing pistachios, which could carry contamination from the same bacteria. http://www.physorg.com/news157701995.html Medicine & Health Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:07:21 EST news157701995 A two-year-old Egyptian girl has contracted bird flu, the 60th reported case since the first outbreak of the disease in the country in 2006, a health ministry spokesman said on Saturday. http://www.physorg.com/news157453152.html Medicine & Health Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:59:55 EST news157453152 (AP) -- As momentum builds to rework the nation's food-safety system after a salmonella outbreak linked to peanuts, the drug industry is hoping for a happy side effect: faster approvals for new medicines. http://www.physorg.com/news156957177.html Medicine & Health Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:13:25 EST news156957177 (AP) -- The mortgage meltdown exposed the weakness of self-regulation in financial markets. Now the salmonella outbreak is doing the same for the food industry. http://www.physorg.com/news156752062.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:15:11 EST news156752062 (AP) -- It's not just consumer groups anymore that say the U.S. food safety system is broken. http://www.physorg.com/news156663460.html Medicine & Health Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:38:19 EST news156663460 An outbreak of bird flu has been reported on a quail farm in central Japan but no animals have died and no humans have been infected, the agriculture ministry said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news154956618.html Medicine & Health Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:30:44 EST news154956618 Fewer than one in four consumers now believe the U.S. food supply is safer than it was a year ago, according to new data from the University of Minnesota's Food Industry Center. http://www.physorg.com/news154696126.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:09:14 EST news154696126 The recent salmonella outbreak linked to 575 illnesses and eight deaths across 43 states was shown to come from a dirty peanut processing plant in Georgia. And while it is essential for food processing plants to be clean and sanitary, Temple public health professor Jennifer Ibrahim, Ph.D., says officials need to consider other possible sources of illness. http://www.physorg.com/news154341910.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:45:51 EST news154341910 "Conventional wisdom - and conventional theory - tells us that when infection can potentially be spread to almost everyone in a community, such as for measles, a disease outbreak can never be contained using voluntary vaccination," says Chris Bauch and Ana Persic, researchers from the University of Guelph. "However, our work shows conventional wisdom may be wrong for diseases that are spread primarily through close contact, such as smallpox." Their findings appear in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology on February 6th. http://www.physorg.com/news153145959.html Biology Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:33:05 EST news153145959 An extensive new review summarizes the many studies refuting the claim of a link between vaccines and autism. The review, in the February 15, 2009 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases and now available online, looks at the three main hypotheses and shows how epidemiological and biological studies refute these claims. http://www.physorg.com/news152540657.html Medicine & Health Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:24:43 EST news152540657 It's as if the whole nation just acquired a peanut allergy. As a salmonella outbreak sickens hundreds of people across the country, federal health officials are warning consumers not to eat products containing peanut butter until they get more information about which products are behind the outbreak. http://www.physorg.com/news152473410.html Medicine & Health Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:44:19 EST news152473410 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Rutgers Food Policy Institute (FPI) have investigated public perceptions of the 2008 Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak, the largest foodborne illness outbreak in the United States in over a decade. http://www.physorg.com/news152464793.html Medicine & Health Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:20:52 EST news152464793 Influenza's ability to resist the effects of cheap and popular antiviral agents in Asia and Russia should serve as a cautionary tale about U.S. plans to use the antiviral Tamiflu in the event of widespread avian flu infection in humans, scientists say. http://www.physorg.com/news150558036.html Medicine & Health Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:40:36 EST news150558036