medicalcondition:infectious diseases

Diagnosing Ancient Disease | May 20, 2013 Issue - Vol. 91 Issue 20 | Chemical & Engineering News
http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i20/Diagnosing-Ancient-Disease.html

#paléomédecine #santé #recherche #adn #peste #tuberculose etc

long-term tuberculosis victims can have characteristic lesions on their bones and collapsed vertebrae symptomatic of tuberculosis that are still visible in 1,000-year-old skeletons (...) in the 1990s, analytical technology advanced to the point where researchers were able to analyze the DNA and other molecular residues left in or on long-dead individuals. That’s when paleomicrobiologists took things a step further and began searching for traces of pathogen DNA, proteins, and lipids in ancient remains such as skeletons and mummies.

Global Health Seminar Series 11/12 : Events : Centre for Global Health Policy : University of Sussex

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/globalhealthpolicy/events/seminars

Beaucoup de ressources et de réflexions intéressantes

#santé

WHO meeting calls for mutant-flu research to be published ‘in full.’
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/02/who-meeting-calls-for-mutant-flu-research-to-be-published-in-full.html

A two-day meeting of 22 experts convened in Geneva by the World Health Organization (WHO) has concluded that two controversial flu studies should be published in full. The research — in which ferret-transmissible strains of avian H5N1 flu virus were created — will be published after a delay of probably a few months, which the experts argue is needed to explain better the public-health benefits of the research and allay public concerns over the safety of the work

papier du NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/health/details-of-bird-flu-research-will-be-released.html

une video du débat
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/02/video-debating-h5n1-and-dual-use-research.html

calculs des taux de fatalité
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=h5n1-bird-flu-case-fatality-calculations

#h5n1 #recherche #censure #santé #bioarmement

The Real Threat of ‘Contagion’ - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/12/opinion/the-real-threat-of-contagion.html

all of us are in a battle that is potentially devastating, only it is not against another country, but against microbes. Could a movie like “Contagion” be an effective vehicle for sounding the alarm?

S’il faut prendre ce film comme une alerte de nature politique, je trouve dommage (et révélateur) que Ian Lipkin se concentre sur une éventuelle menace d’un nouveau #virus, sans dire un mot des maladies existantes qui tuent déjà par millions chaque année (sida, tb, palu). La « #bio-security » est un domaine émergent et fascinant, mais très éloigné de la #santé publique…

#WHO warns of enormous burden of chronic disease | Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/27/us-disease-who-idUSTRE73Q1Q120110427

#cancer, heart disease and diabetes have reached global epidemic proportions and now cause more #deaths than all other diseases combined

#santé

Quarraisha Abdool Karim: #HIV onslaught ‘decimating’ teenage girls in #South_Africa | Science Speaks: HIV & TB News
http://sciencespeaksblog.org/2011/03/09/karim-hiv-onslaught-‘decimating’-teenage-girls-in-south-africa

in #KwaZulu-Natal, what we are seeing is high, high incidence rates, driven by the age-sex difference with many women acquiring HIV almost around sexual debut, at 14 or 15 years. By the age of 20, one in three women is already infected with HIV. By the time they are 25, it’s one in two. You cannot sustain this kind of onslaught on our communities.

#femmes #sida #santé #épidémiologie