Global Internet slows after ‘biggest attack in history’
Experts worry attack may affect banking and email systems; BBC reporting that 5 national cyber-police forces are investigating
View ArticleSaudi death toll from new virus reaches 18
World Health Organization investigating SARS-like disease
View ArticleWith new hack, cellphone can get data out of computers
Hackers no longer need the Internet to invade and control a system, Ben Gurion University researchers say
View ArticleWest Nile virus detected in northern Israel
Mosquito carriers found in four Galilee towns of Kiryat Ata, Kiryat Bialik, Kfar Tavor, and Nahal Hilazon
View ArticleEbola: How it spreads
Facts about the virus ravaging West Africa, and how to avoid contracting it
View ArticleUS airports launch stepped-up Ebola screening
Checks on arrivals from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea start at NYC’s Kennedy, to expand over next week to Newark, Dulles, O’Hare and Hartsfield-Jackson
View ArticleIsrael donates $10 million to UN Ebola fund
Foreign Ministry says move reflects commitment to help fight the deadly African epidemic
View ArticleIsrael’s hospitals overflowing with patients
Intensive care unit at Tel Hashomer Hospital reaches 350% occupancy rate; some wait up to 10 hours before receiving treatment
View ArticleSaudi MERS deaths spike, Riyadh says
16 people have died of the coronavirus in the kingdom since February 11, raising toll to 382
View ArticlePaypal to acquire Israeli cybersec firm CyActive
Beersheba firm relies on hackers’ ‘laziness’ to develop cures for malware that has yet to be created
View ArticleIsrael girds for possible MERS virus outbreak
Despite a number of confirmed cases in neighboring Jordan and Egypt, the deadly disease has not reached Israel
View ArticleIranian report: Saudi meds for Yemen tainted with HIV
Tehrani semi-state news agency asserts, implausibly, that the WHO has confirmed dozens infected with deadly virus after taking medicine provided by Riyadh
View ArticleIsraeli med tech thwarts superbugs’ takeover plans
By determining more precisely what ails patients, MeMed’s technology ensures that they get exactly the meds they need
View ArticleIran swine flu outbreak kills 33 in three weeks
Over 600 hospitalized in southwestern provinces; officials warn H1N1 virus likely to spread as far as Tehran
View ArticleMosquito-borne Zika virus infects first Israeli
Health ministry advises pregnant women to avoid growing number of countries with virus, which can cause fetal abnormalities
View ArticleZika virus spreading ‘explosively,’ says WHO chief
Emergency meeting of experts to decide Monday whether to declare outbreak an international health emergency
View ArticleColombia: 2,000 pregnant women have Zika virus
Mosquito-borne infection, spreading ‘explosively’ in the Americas, believed to cause brain damage in newborns
View ArticleBattling Zika, Brazil’s Jews turn to bug repellent and indoor activities
The need to control the virus has even led one Chabad rabbi in Rio to override religious bans on killing bugs on Shabbat
View ArticleVirus killing one of world’s most farmed fish, Israeli study finds
Tilapia a global food source worth $7.5 billion each year, annual yields from Israel down 85 percent
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China virus death toll tops 800, surpassing SARS outbreak
Health officials say coronavirus may have stabilized, but too early to determine if tally of infections, now over 37,000, has peaked
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