China
NYU Researchers Took Chinese Bribes
May 20, 2013 3:37 pm | by BY TOM HAYS - ASSOCIATED PRESS | News | CommentsThree New York University researchers from China divulged results from a federally funded study to Chinese competitors in exchange for tuition, rent and other expenses, federal prosecutors say. Yudong Zhu, a U.S.-educated NYU professor, and Xing Yang, a lab engineer, were released on bail after appearing in federal court in Manhattan to face commercial bribery and other charges. They left court without speaking to reporters.
New Respiratory Viruses Could Spark Global Outbreaks
May 13, 2013 10:48 am | by MARIA CHENG - AP Medical Writer - Associated Press | News | CommentsTwo respiratory viruses in different parts of the world have captured the attention of global health officials — a novel coronavirus in the Middle East and a new bird flu spreading in China. Last week, the coronavirus related to SARS spread to France, where one patient who probably caught the the disease in Dubai infected his hospital roommate.
China Bird Flu Jumped Directly from Chickens
April 25, 2013 11:48 am | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsChinese scientists have for the first time found strong evidence of how humans became infected with a new strain of bird flu: from chickens at a live market. Chinese scientists compared swabs from birds at markets in eastern China to virus samples from four patients who caught the new H7N9 virus. The scientists found the virus from one patient was nearly identical to one found in a chicken.
New Flu Passes More Easily from Bird to Human, WHO Says
April 24, 2013 3:35 am | by GILLIAN WONG - Associated Press - Associated Press | News | CommentsA lethal new strain of bird flu that emerged in China over the past month appears to jump more easily from birds to humans than the one that started killing people a decade ago, World Health Organization officials said Wednesday. Scientists are watching the virus closely to see if it could spark a global pandemic.
China Bird Flu Not Spreading Easily in Humans
April 19, 2013 1:44 am | by BY GILLIAN WONG -- ASSOCIATED PRESS | News | CommentsThere's no evidence a new bird flu strain is spreading easily among people in China even though there may be sporadic cases of the virus spreading to people who have close contacts with patients, the World Health Organization said Friday. Fifteen global and Chinese health experts are on a mission in Beijing and Shanghai to learn more about the H7N9 bird flu virus that has killed 17 people and sickened 70 others.
190M-Year-Old Dino Bones Hold Development Clues
April 10, 2013 11:26 am | by ALICIA CHANG - AP SCIENCE WRITER | News | CommentsRecently discovered dinosaur embryos are giving scientists their best glimpse yet into how the ancient creatures developed. The 190-million-year-old fossils unearthed in China belonged to Lufengosaurus, a long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur.
China Kills Market Birds As Flu Deaths Continue
April 5, 2013 9:53 am | by GILLIAN WONG - Associated Press - Associated Press | News | CommentsChina announced a sixth death from a new bird flu strain Friday, while authorities in Shanghai halted the sale of live fowl and slaughtered all poultry at a market where the virus was detected in pigeons being sold for meat.
Mutating Bird Flu Takes Fourth Life
April 4, 2013 9:03 am | News | CommentsA middle-aged man who transported poultry for a living has died from a new strain of bird flu, the fourth death among 11 confirmed cases in China, the government and state media reported today.
Update: Bird Flu Strain Causes Fifth Death in China
April 4, 2013 5:51 am | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsAnother unidentified person has died from a new strain of bird flu, bringing the death toll to five among 14 confirmed cases in China, the government and state media reported Thursday. The official Xinhua News Agency did not identify the fifth fatality, but said that person also died in Shanghai on Wednesday.
China Bird Virus Likely Silent Threat, Scientists Say
April 3, 2013 5:56 am | by GILLIAN WONG - Associated Press - Associated Press | News | CommentsScientists taking a first look at the genetics of the bird flu strain that recently killed two men in China said Wednesday that the virus could be harder to track than its better-known cousin H5N1 because it might be able to spread silently among poultry without notice.
Questions in China on Deadly, Lesser-Known Bird Flu
April 1, 2013 7:34 am | by GILLIAN WONG - Associated Press - Associated Press | News | CommentsHealth officials say they still don't understand how a lesser-known bird flu virus was able to kill two men and seriously sicken a woman in China, but that it's unlikely that it can spread easily among humans. Two men in Shanghai became the first known human fatalities from the H7N9 bird flu after contracting it in February.
Clues to why most survived China melamine scandal
February 13, 2013 3:27 pm | by LAURAN NEERGAARD - AP Medical Writer - Associated Press | News | CommentsScientists wondering why some children and not others survived one of China's worst food safety scandals have uncovered a suspect: germs that live in the gut. In 2008, at least six babies died and 300,000 became sick after being fed infant formula that had been deliberately and illegally tainted...
