The dengue virus-carrying Aedes mosquito has adapted to urbanized human environments and traditional methods used in most Asian countries to control their breeding, making it more diffcult to control its spread.

"It's a global pandemic," says Dr. Duane Gubler, director at the Asia-Pacific Institute of Tropical Diseases in Hawaii. "It's quite clear that the disease...has evolved. There just is more dengue in the world

Researchers find that children with obsessive-compulsive disorder are more likely to have antibodies associated with streptococcal infection than those without the disorder.

The joint Institute of Psychiatry and Institute of Neurology team says that more research is needed

Researchers find that children with obsessive-compulsive disorder are more likely to have antibodies associated with streptococcal infection than those without the disorder.

The joint Institute of Psychiatry and Institute of Neurology team says that more research is needed

Zhengli Shi of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and colleagues find that almost 70 percent of the bat species sampled in the region showed evidence of infection with SARS-like viruses.

This would support the idea that bats are the natural host of the virus

Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle plans to veto a ban on human cloning. The ban was approved Wednesday by the state legislature.

The proposed measure would prevent both reproductive cloning and therapeutic cloning