Pandemic Flu could kill 62 million people

Pandemic flu would kill 62 million people around the world, most of them in poorer countries, a new estimate suggests.The figures assume that a new pandemic would follow the same pattern as the 1918 Spanish flu, which killed at least 20 million people at a time when the world’s population was much smaller.  >>

Virus may affect memory loss decades later

A family of viruses that cause a range of ills from the common cold to polio may be able to infect the brain and cause steady damage, a team at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota reported.

“Our study suggests that virus-induced memory loss could accumulate over the lifetime of an individual and eventually lead to clinical cognitive memory deficits”. >>