KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The mystery flu-like illness that has killed dozens of people in southwest Congo in recent weeks might be malaria, according to results from laboratory samples of infected people, authorities said Wednesday. “Of the 12 samples taken, nine were positive for malaria but these samples were not of very good quality, so…
KINSHASA, Congo — The mystery flu-like illness that has killed dozens of people in southwest Congo in recent weeks might be malaria, according to results from laboratory samples of infected people, authorities said Wednesday. “Of the 12 samples taken, nine were positive for malaria but these samples were not of very good quality, so we…
Right after Dr Owen Tsang Tak-yin finished his training in infectious diseases, he suddenly found himself on the front lines of Hong Kong’s 2003 Sars outbreak, a time he describes as being lonely and stressful. Tsang, now the medical director of the Hospital Authority Infectious Disease Centre in Hong Kong, recalled that at the start…
Hong Kong authorities announced in October that dinosaur bone fossils had been discovered on Port Island, a remote, uninhabited island off the northeastern part of the special administrative region. Palaeoecological experts believe that the small bone fragments date back to the Cretaceous period (145-66 million years ago), and could be the remains of larger types…