Government draws up plans to combat West Nile virus
netdoctor.co.uk
Health officials will order Britons to cover themselves with mosquito-repellant ointment, spray their homes each evening and erect special anti-mosquito screens if the potentially deadly West Nile virus arrives in this country.
Garden ponds, water butts and other breeding grounds for disease-carrying insects would also have to be emptied under plans to combat the disease, which has spread rapidly across much of the world.
First West Nile crow of season found in Aurora
yorkregion.com.
Jun 1, 2004
Lisa Queen, Staff Writer - More from this author
York Region's first dead crow infected with West Nile virus has been found in Aurora, the public health department announced yesterday
GenoMed Testing Near-Universal Viral Antidote: Could Be First Line of Defense Against Viral Bioterrorism
Wednesday May 26, 11:51 am ET
biz.yahoo.com
ST. LOUIS, May 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GenoMed, Inc. ("the Company" or "GenoMed") (Pink Sheets: GMED - News) has already begun to test a possible antidote against the viruses often mentioned as weapons of bioterrorism. These include SARS, bird flu, Hantavirus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), monkeypox, Ebola virus, West Nile virus, St. Louis encephalitis, Eastern Equine encephalitis virus, smallpox, Dengue, Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, and polio. The Company is also anxious to try this approach against all lethal viruses, including HIV. |
