Subscribe free to our newsletters via your
. Earth Science News .




EPIDEMICS
Swine flu kills Jordanian: health minister
by Staff Writers
Amman (AFP) Jan 6, 2013


The H1N1 influenza strain known as swine flu killed a 26-year-old Jordanian man on Sunday, Health Minister Abdullatif Wreikat said on Sunday.

"The 26-year-old died in hospital today in Irbid," in northern Jordan, Wreikat told state-run Petra news agency.

"He was taken to the Princess Basma (public) Hospital three days ago suffering from severe pneumonia. Medical tests showed H1N1 infection, which led to the man's death."

H1N1 influenza has killed 25 people in Jordan in recent years.

In 2009, an H1N1 epidemic erupted in Mexico and spread into a worldwide pandemic that caused at least 17,000 deaths.

In 1997, the H5N1 strain of influenza, commonly known as bird flu, broke out in Hong Kong.

Spreading from live birds to humans through direct contact, it causes fever and breathing problems and claimed 359 human lives in 15 countries, mainly in Asia and Africa, from 2003 to August of this year, according to the World Health Organisation.

Nearly all major epidemic diseases in humans originated in livestock and health professionals keep a constant watch on animal diseases to assess the risk of strains developing that can cross the species barrier.

.


Related Links
Epidemics on Earth - Bird Flu, HIV/AIDS, Ebola






Comment on this article via your Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail login.

Share this article via these popular social media networks
del.icio.usdel.icio.us DiggDigg RedditReddit GoogleGoogle








EPIDEMICS
Scientists say vaccine temporarily brakes HIV
Madrid (AFP) Jan 03, 2013
A team of Spanish researchers say they have developed a therapeutic vaccine that can temporarily brake growth of the HIV virus in infected patients. The vaccine, based on immune cells exposed to HIV that had been inactivated with heat, was tested on a group of 36 people carrying the virus and the results were the best yet recorded for such a treatment, the team said. "What we did was giv ... read more


EPIDEMICS
Obama signs $9.7 bn aid bill for Sandy victims

Obama considers broad arms sales restrictions: report

Fukushima 'unprecedented challenge': new Japan PM

Natural catastrophes caused $160 bn in damage: Munich Re

EPIDEMICS
Liquid jets and bouncing balls combine for surprising results

How computers push on the molecules they simulate

Shortage of helium has business impact

Corning to debut tougher Gorilla Glass

EPIDEMICS
Coral records suggest that recent El Nino activity rises above noisy background

US study says El Nino, climate change link fuzzy

The relationship between CO2 concentrations and sea level

Cambodia battles to save rare Mekong dolphins

EPIDEMICS
Bering Sea study finds prey density more important to predators than biomass

Fiennes sails for Antarctica on first winter crossing bid

As globe warms, Alaska is cooling down

CryoSat hits land

EPIDEMICS
Improving DNA amplification from problematic plants

Brazil mulls retaliation for ban on beef

Chinese trigger Australian baby milk run

Poland bans cultivation of GM maize, potatoes

EPIDEMICS
7.5-magnitude quake hits off Alaska, triggers local tsunami

Stormy weather, heavy rains lash Israel, Palestinians

Floods hit southeast Niger

Sodden Britain marks second wettest year in 2012

EPIDEMICS
Poachers kill four rhinos in Zimbabwe

Seven killed as Nigerian soldiers clash with Islamists

Angola detains nine exiled DR Congo officers over 'plot'

China firm to acquire major African iron ore mine: Xinhua

EPIDEMICS
Japan's population logs record drop

Study refutes accepted model of memory formation

Fluctuating environment may have driven human evolution

Decision to give a group effort in the brain




The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2014 - Space Media Network. AFP, UPI and IANS news wire stories are copyright Agence France-Presse, United Press International and Indo-Asia News Service. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement,agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement