BBC NEWS | Health | Q&A: Swine flu
Page last updated at 07:18 GMT, Monday, 27 April 2009 08:18 UK Infection control experts are scrambling to respond to outbreaks of swine flu in Mexico and the US, and suspected cases elsewhere. What is swine flu? Swine flu is a respiratory disease which infects pigs. Caused by influenza type A, there are regular outbreaks among herds of pigs, where the disease causes high levels of illness but is
BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | Swine flu: Your experiences
Readers in the areas affected by the swine flu outbreak have been sending their accounts to the BBC. The map above shows the location of eyewitness and BBC reports. For a map which charts the spread of the disease over time go here. My partner and I returned to Birmingham from Cancun yesterday morning at 08:20am. There were no members of the health department there to meet us, over 400 people pass
BBC NEWS | Technology | Court jails Pirate Bay founders
A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world's most high-profile file-sharing website, in a landmark case. Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail. They were also ordered to pay $4.5m (£3m) in damages. Record companies welcomed the verdict but the men are
BBC NEWS | Health | Premature ejaculation gene found
Men who suffer from premature ejaculation may be able to blame their genes, work suggests. A study of nearly 200 Dutch men found those who climaxed too soon during intercourse had a version of a gene that controls the hormone serotonin. Men with this version ejaculated twice as quickly as other men in the study. Serotonin levels are what control the rapidity of ejaculation, say the Utrecht Univers
BBC NEWS | Africa | Somali 'ghost city' wracked by war
The latest conflict is between a weak, though internationally-recognised Somali government, backed by troops from neighbouring Ethiopia - and armed insurgents who are a mixture of Islamists and nationalists. The United States is still a key player, backing the Ethiopians. It accuses the Islamists of having links to al-Qaeda. "Its getting worse and worse," said Sophia Hussein, a housewife turned re
BBC NEWS | Business | Lehman Bros files for bankruptcy
Lehman Brothers, the fourth-largest US investment bank, has filed for bankruptcy protection, dealing a blow to the fragile global financial system. The news led to sharp falls in share prices around the world, and officials took measures to reassure markets. Lehman had incurred losses of billions of dollars in the US mortgage market. Merrill Lynch, also stung by the credit crunch, has agreed to be
BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Music tastes link to personality
Musical tastes and personality type are closely related, according to a study of more than 36,000 people from around the world. The research, which was carried out by Professor Adrian North of Heriot-Watt University, is said to be the largest such study ever undertaken. It suggested classical music fans were shy, while heavy metal aficionados were gentle and at ease with themselves. Professor Nort
BBC NEWS | Health | 'Can anyone hear that picture?'
US scientists have discovered people who can "hear" what they see. The rare form of synaesthesia - a condition where senses intermingle - came to light after a student reported "hearing sounds" from a screensaver. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology then found three more people with the same condition, New Scientist magazine reported. Those affected performed better in tests of r
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Gay bomb' scoops Ig Nobel award
Last Updated: Thursday, 4 October 2007, 23:47 GMT 00:47 UK Pioneering research into a "gay bomb" that makes enemy troops "sexually irresistible" to each other has scooped one of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes. Other winners included work on treating hamster jetlag with impotency drugs, extracting vanilla from cow dung, and the side-effects of sword swallowing. The awards, founded in 1991, mark achiev
BBC NEWS | Programmes | More Or Less | Connecting with people in six steps
How well are you connected? Not necessarily to the rich and famous, but how well are we all connected to each other? One of the most famous claims is that anyone can reach anyone else through a chain of acquaintances no more than six people long. This idea, known as "six degrees of separation", is a measure of our social networks. The phrase was coined by an American academic, Stanley Milgram, aft
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