Yellow Fever

Yellow fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease. The virus is a 40 to 50 nm enveloped RNA virus with positive sense of the Flaviviridae family. The yellow fever virus is transmitted by the bite o...

OKI Data Americas to Debut pro511DW Digital Web Press at Labelexpo Americas 2012

MOUNT LAUREL, N.J., Aug. 29, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OKI Data Americas announces its participation in the upcoming Labelexpo Americas 2012 tradeshow and conference taking place September 11-13 in Ch...

Circuit of The Americas(tm) begins ticket sales for GRAND-AM of The Americas presented by Gainsco and Total

Austin, Texas, Dec. 13, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tickets for the 2013 GRAND-AM of The Americas presented by Gainsco and Total at Circuit of The Americas are on sale now at www.CircuitofTheAmericas.co...

Circuit of The Americas(tm) draws 131,082 fans for Red Bull MotoGP of The Americas

Austin, Texas, April 21, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Circuit of The Americas introduced a new tradition at its world-class sports and entertainment venue this weekend, as a robust crowd of 131,082 fans...

BGI's second International Conference on Genomics in the Americas to be held in September

BGI, the world's largest genomics organization, will hold its second International Conference on Genomics in the Americas (ICG Americas 2013) on September 12-13, 2013 in Sacramento, CA.

Cochlear Americas President Joins Hearing Health Foundation's Board

Chris Smith, president of Cochlear Americas, joined Hearing Health Foundation's Board of Directors in January.  Cochlear Americas, a Denver-based subsidiary of Cochlear Limited, deve...

IPEC Americas announces results of exec board elections

Representatives from Pfizer, J&J, Dow Corning and EMD Millipore will join IPEC Americas’ executive board and lead the excipient industry organisation as it moves to a new HQ.

In The Americas, Malaria Cases Have Declined Nearly 60% Since 2000

The number of malaria cases in the Americas declined by nearly 60% and malaria deaths declined 70% over the past decade, according to the 2012 World Malaria Report, published by the World Health Organ...

New book celebrates women scientists in the Americas

(National Academy of Sciences) A new book featuring a series of interviews with prominent female scientists throughout the Americas is now available from the Inter-American Network of Academies of Sci...

Archaeology. Texas site confirms pre-Clovis settlement of the Americas.

Very ancient stone tools help confirm what many have long suspected: Clovis hunters,with their distinctive spear points, were not the first to people the Americas.

Progress toward implementation of human papillomavirus vaccination --- the americas, 2006--2010.

Cervical cancer is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the Americas, where an estimated 80,574 new cases and 36,058 deaths were reported in 2008, with 85% of this burden occurring in Latin Ame...

Onchocerciasis in the Americas: from arrival to (near) elimination.

ABSTRACT: Onchocerciasis (river blindness) is a blinding parasitic disease that threatens the health of approximately 120 million people worldwide. While 99% of the population at-risk for infection f...

Archaeological Support for the Three-Stage Expansion of Modern Humans across Northeastern Eurasia and into the Americas.

BACKGROUND: Understanding the dynamics of the human range expansion across northeastern Eurasia during the late Pleistocene is central to establishing empirical temporal constraints on the colonizatio...

A test of the influence of continental axes of orientation on patterns of human gene flow.

The geographic distribution of genetic variation reflects trends in past population migrations and can be used to make inferences about these migrations. It has been proposed that the east-west orient...