Campaign Aims to Help End Childhood HIV Infections A new campaigns been launched to help eliminate new HIV infections among children by 2015. Its called Believe it, Do it. Its estimated nearly 400,000 children become infected with the AIDS virus ever...
High-Tech Device Reduces Risk of Hospital Infections This machine fires bursts of ultraviolet, or UV, light that penetrate the cells of micro-organisms and kill them. The organisms have no chance to adapt and gain immunity as they might with a chemic...
Dengue Severity Depends on Prior Infection, Genetic Variation American and Nicaraguan scientists have discovered the reason why a second infection with dengue can often be much more serious, even fatal, than the first. Dengue is a viral disease sprea...
今天我们要学的词是infection。 Infection, 感染。 MIT scientists are developing a new drug that might be able to fight any viral infection, 麻省理工大学的科学家正在研究一种新药,可能可以治疗任何病毒感染。 Re...
Antibiotic Alternative Treats Urinary Infection in Mice Researchers have a new approach for treating urinary tract infections, a painful condition which can often be treated successfully with antibiotics. But many times, the infection is caused by st...
African Refugee Children at High Risk for Kala-azar, Malaria, Viral Infections Some 300,000 children are receiving vaccinations against polio and measles at one of the largest refugee camps in Kenya. They also are receving vitamin A and deworming tab...
Americans Turn to AIDS Drugs to Prevent HIV Infection New research in Africa confirms that a once-a-day pill, used to treat patients infected with the virus which causes AIDS, also works to prevent HIV infection in healthy people. For 20-year-old New...
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 24 March 2008 As the world marks international Tuberculosis day, a new study has revealed a frightening rise in the past 15 years in tuberculosis cases in Africa. Correspondent Scott Bobb reports from our Southern Africa Bu...
By Paige Kollock Washington, D.C. 12 January 2006 watch Bird Flu report In the last week, at least 12 people in Turkey have been infected with bird flu. While UN officials fear the virus may spread fr...
Broadcast: April 30, 2003 By Nancy Steinbach This is the VOA Special English Health Report. American researchers say drinking tea may help strengthen the body's defense system against infection. Docto...