October 21, 2011
Pathologists from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia attend a workshop on transmittable disease from animals to humans in Hanoi. Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodian pathologists are being trained to identify and respond early to dangerous pathogens so that they can better cope with the risk of emergence and spread of new pandemic diseases . During the October [...]
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August 11, 2011
An anthrax skin lesion The Vietnam Administration of Preventive Medicine on Sunday warned the northern mountainous provinces of Lai Chau, Dien Bien and Ha Giang of anthrax outbreaks in humans, the Sai Gon Tiep Thi newspaper reported. The administration said anthrax cases have been reported in the provinces since June, with Lai Chau having the [...]
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May 3, 2011
An official checks a visitor at a radiation screening center in Koriyama in Fukushima prefecture. Japan may be at the forefront of robotics and its children raised on cartoons of robot heroes and villains, but the country has so far had to rely on US-made machines for help tackling its nuclear crisis. The massive March [...]
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March 12, 2011
Missing chunks of DNA responsible for turning genes on and off help explain some key differences between chimpanzees and humans — including why humans have big brains and why the human penis is not covered with prickly spines, US researchers said on Wednesday. The study, published in the journal Nature, reinforces the notion that [...]
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February 25, 2011
One type of seaweed, the red alga Callophycus serratus. Seaweed emits a natural chemical response to ward off fungi that would otherwise colonize an injured plant, a process that could help the search for antimalarial drugs, a US scientist has said. Up to a million people per year die from malaria, which can be caused [...]
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February 8, 2011
Photo illustration of a brain scan. Human brains have shrunk over the past 30,000 years, puzzling scientists who argue it is not a sign we are growing dumber but that evolution is making the key motor leaner and more efficient. Human brains have shrunk over the past 30,000 years, puzzling scientists who argue it is [...]
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December 16, 2010
While no bird flu human case has been recorded over the past eight months in Vietnam, the country is still at high risk of the epidemic among humans, according to the Ministry of Health.  Nguyen Tran Hien, head of the ministry’s National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, said recently that the H5N1 virus has [...]
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November 27, 2009
Hatfield Consultants selects sampling locations around the Da Nang Airport. A new study of dioxin contamination at the Da Nang Airport has found alarming amounts of the toxin in people, fish and soil, with some areas tainted by over 360 times more dioxin than deemed safe by the WHO. The airport is widely recognized as [...]
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August 9, 2009
Nguyen Ngoc Phuong, 28, a victim of the defoliant Agent Orange, walks inside a classroom at a social sponsorship center in Vietnam’s Da Nang City June 26, 2009 Scientists have always concurred that exposure to Agent Orange leads to serious health maladies â“ a conclusion those responsible for the poison conveniently ignore. The US government [...]
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August 5, 2009
Red blood cell bursting after infection of malaria (Photo courtesy of scienceblogs.com) Malaria may have jumped to humans from chimpanzees much as AIDS did, US researchers reported in a recent study they hope could help in developing a vaccine against the infection. They found evidence the parasite that causes most cases of malaria is a [...]
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