Hopkins scientists explore toxoplasmosis and schizophrenia link Johns Hopkins University scientists trying to determine why people develop serious mental illness are focusing on an unlikely factor: a common parasite spread by cats.

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Link between schizophrenia, cat parasite being studied

Hopkins scientists explore toxoplasmosis and schizophrenia link Johns Hopkins University scientists trying to determine why people develop serious mental illness are focusing on an unlikely factor: a common parasite spread by cats.

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Researchers explore link between schizophrenia, cat parasite

As of Friday (July 30), blue ear disease has affected pigs in 11 provinces across the country, the Department of Animal Health reported.

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Blue ear disease hits 11 provinces in Vietnam

As of Friday (July 30), blue ear disease has affected pigs in 11 provinces across the country, the Department of Animal Health reported.

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Blue ear disease hits 11 provinces in Vietnam

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In a Los Angeles Times opinion piece, Evan Wood, associate professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia, writes about the Vienna Declaration, a document he helped to draft, that calls for international leaders to revise drug policies to incorporate greater scientific evidence and promote HIV prevention, treatment and care for drug users.

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Opinions: IDUs and HIV; AIDS 2010; International Violence Against Women Act

89.3 KPCC Pandemic Flu Strain Will Be Component of Seasonal Vaccine MedPage Today As expected, the US flu vaccine for next fall will include the pandemic flu that has swept the … H1N1 pandemic dominated 2009-2010 flu season Pediatric SuperSite Swine Flu Pandemic Hit Children the Hardest WebMD Your New Flu Vaccine Is On The Way, A Little Early NPR (blog) CIDRAP

WHO: Flu active in parts of tropics, Southern Hemisphere CIDRAP Jul 30, 2010 (CIDRAP News) – The World Health Organization (WHO) today said pandemic and seasonal flu activity across the globe is low, but said activity is … Deadly swine flu resurgent Stuff.co.nz Return of swine flu places strain on hospitals New Zealand Herald all 4 news articles

Scoop.co.nz (press release) H1N1 pandemic dominated 2009-2010 flu season Pediatric SuperSite The 2009 H1N1 pandemic caused the highest rates of influenza-related pediatric hospitalization and mortality recorded since 1997, according to data from the … Swine Flu Pandemic Hit Children the Hardest WebMD New Flu Vaccine is on the way CNN (blog) Pandemic Strain Dominated Most Recent Flu Season MedPage Today PR Newswire (press release)

New research shows that individuals with mild H1N1 infection may go undetected using standard diagnostic criteria, according to a study in the August issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, (APIC). The study concludes that coughing or other respiratory symptoms are more accurate in …

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Respiratory symptoms accurately determine influenza infection than fever