FRANKFURT— Bayer AG’s big push into the U.S. agrochemical market with its planned acquisition of Monsanto Co. could help it offset a growing problem on its home turf: increasingly stringent European regulation.
Dutch health officials said they are investigating the death of a Dutch veterinarian believed to be the first human victim of a bird-flu epidemic that is spreading in parts of Europe. The Dutch
U.S. health officials and researchers are devising new ways to fight the deadly SARS virus, as doubts mount about a treatment pioneered in Hong Kong, one of the areas hit hardest by the disease. The
Some epidemiologists estimate that SARS
The number of people infected with the deadly SARS virus infected with the deadly SARS virus Beijing and rural China continued to rise sharply, even as the disease appeared to stabilize further in
Scientists around the world have moved with unprecedented speed to identify the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome and to unravel its genetic makeup. Public health officials have
The World Health Organisation is turning its attention to China's interior, as China's fight against severe acute respiratory syndrome gains new urgency in the poorer provinces. But incomplete date
The international pursuit that led to the discovery of the virus that causes SARS is turning into a competition for patent rights. Scientists in Canada who decoded the genetic make up of the virus
Farmers have planted India's approved crop of genetically engineered cotton, known as Bt for the soil organism that is toxic to some plant pests. The seed, developed by Monsanto Co, of St. Louis and
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that it is seeking a patent on the SARS virus to guarantee the discovery stays in the public domain. The CDC's patent application, if
The first major study of SARS trends estimates that about 20% of the people hospitalized with the diseases in HOng KOng are dying from it, and that more than half of those over 60 die. The findings,
