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An outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa is gaining international attention, with latest reports indicating that a total […]
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A number of cases of Influenza A virus subtype H1N1 (commonly dubbed swine flu) have been recently reported in New […]
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The Ministry for Primary Industries is warning consumers there is a small chance that fruit from a Hawkes Bay packhouse […]
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Increasing cases of measles, particularly in Auckland, have health officials worried. The discovery of two measles infected passengers on a […]
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A new study in the journal Nature describes a model that can successfully predict changes in seasonal human influenza virus […]
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Republished from The Conversation under Creative Commons license. By Rachael Dunlop, University of Technology, Sydney Recently released government figures show […]
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The first report of probable person to person transmission of the new avian influenza A (H7N9) virus in Eastern China […]
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An article in the New Zealand Herald reports on the results of a Kleenex-commissioned survey of the hygiene of Kiwis, […]
Continue readingConcern over novel coronavirus – experts respond
A new coronavirus — the same type of virus responsible for the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or […]
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