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Vaccine cuts rate of major disease in African children in half

A vaccine against pneumococcal disease, which is a major killer of children in Africa, has cut the disease rate by more than half, new research has found. The study, involving Otago researcher Professor Philip Hill...

16 March, 2016

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Scientists mark ‘stunning success’ of vaccine in virtually ridding Africa of meningitis A

Five years after the introduction of an affordable conjugate meningitis A vaccine, immunization has led to the control and near elimination of deadly meningitis A disease in the African “meningitis belt.” In...

12 November, 2015

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Shift in vaccine use needed to eradicate polio: WHO experts

A World Health Organization expert panel called for a shift in the kinds of vaccines used to fight polio, insisting full eradication of the crippling disease is within reach. The WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts...

29 October, 2015

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Malaria and Epstein-Barr Virus: A Lethal Combination

A recent study in PLOS Pathogens investigates how Epstein-Barr virus and malaria co-infection may create a lethal combination if the timing is right. Epstein-Barr virus and malaria are two infections that can each be...

28 May, 2015

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The Lancet Infectious Diseases: 3.5 million extra untreated cases of malaria

As many as 10900 extra malaria deaths may have occurred in 2014 due to the disruption of healthcare services in the three countries in west Africa currently experiencing widespread Ebola virus outbreaks (Guinea, Sierra...

24 April, 2015

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Two Ebola vaccines have passed some hurdles

Two new rapid-acting Ebola vaccines have passed over hurdles: They have protected monkeys against the strain of the deadly virus that caused the recent outbreak in West Africa. The vaccines worked against Ebola in one...

24 April, 2015

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West Africa: Ebolanomics – the search for a vaccine

When Ebola hit West Africa last year, it was a disease with no sign of a vaccine or cure. To those affected that may have been an indication that the wider world didn’t care about them or the diseases that...

13 February, 2015

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“Extreme measures” needed to see Ebola vaccine development through: Experts

Developing and bringing to market effective Ebola vaccines requires extreme measures and unprecedented international cooperation, global health experts said. In an interim report on a roadmap for vaccines against the...

19 January, 2015

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The Lancet: Trial confirms Ebola vaccine candidate safe and equally immunogenic in Africa

Two experimental DNA vaccines to prevent Ebola virus and the closely related Marburg virus are safe, and generated a similar immune response in healthy Ugandan adults as reported in healthy US adults earlier this year...

26 December, 2014

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