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Diseases Caused By Mumps Virus - Articles
Live Attenuated Vaccine to Prevent Disease Caused by West Nile Virus
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nih.gov
Posted
Sun 27 Feb 2011 7:00pm
of the U.S. WNV infections have been recorded in humans as well as in different animals. To date, WNV has killed 294 people in the U.S. and caused severe disease in more than 4222 others. This project is part of NIAID’s comprehensive emerging infectious disease program, which supports research on bacterial, viral, and other types of disease-causing microbes
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Viruses May Cause Childhood Diabetes. Can they Cause Autism?
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Kim S.
Posted
Mon 09 Mar 2009 12:00am
only imagine the pain parents have in dealing with children who have the disease.
An article entitled “Study of Human Pancreas Links Virus to Cause of Type 1 Diabetes” (Science... throws up his hands and says, “Doc, you’re the one showing me all the dirty pictures!”
I feel a bit like that patient every time I read about viruses causing unsuspected
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Are brain tumors caused by a virus?
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Katherine B.
Posted
Tue 10 Feb 2009 12:31pm
In my work I deal with cytomegalovirus in newborns and the effects that it has on their development.
There is updated research that the same virus may possibly be the cause of some brain tumors, particularly glioblastomas as shown in the scan. Science has already shown that three cancers (cervical, liver and lymphoma) are caused by viruses
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Wart virus caused 25,000 cancers in 5 years: CDC
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Matthew Z.
Posted
Mon 03 Nov 2008 1:17pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The human wart virus HPV caused 25,000 cases of cancer in the United States between 1998 and 2003, including not only cervical cancer but also anal and mouth cancers, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported...read more | digg story
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Study Says High Blood Pressure could be caused by a Herpes Virus
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Medical Quack
Posted
Fri 15 May 2009 10:44pm
also played an important role in the study as well. BD
CHICAGO (Reuters) – A common virus may be a major cause of high blood pressure, researchers said on Thursday... or CMV -- a herpes virus that affects some 60 to 99 percent of adults globally -- appears to increase inflammation in blood vessels, causing high blood pressure.
And when combined
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New Virus 'Jumps' From Monkey to Scientist, Causing Serious Illness
by
HealthFinder
Posted
Fri 22 Oct 2010 10:00am
of genetic information from monkey and human adenoviruses.
"When viruses jump they can cause much more severe disease or less severe disease," Chiu said. "These findings might... there is no cause for alarm at this time. There is no evidence the virus has spread beyond the single scientist -- who recovered from her illness -- nor is there even proof that the virus
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Prostate Cancer Caused by a Virus?
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Rabbi Ed .
Posted
Mon 26 Apr 2010 12:00am
Whether viruses cause prostate cancer has been a subject of scientific research for some years.
Now scientists at Utah and Columbia Universities have found....
The scientists’ next step is to determine if this virus, - known as the XMRV, appears in people who died of non-cancerous causes. Whether or not this is the case, they anticipate
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Shown to be Caused by Virus
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Stephen Schimpff, MD
Posted
Wed 21 Oct 2009 10:06pm
is likely caused by a virus. Known as xenotrophic murine leukemia virus – related virus, or XMVR, it is a retrovirus that is suspected of being transmitted by intimate human contact... too many individuals have been branded as having a “psychological problem” and as not really being ill. No cause had been known although viral infection, immune dysfunction
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