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Vaccination: a crucial and underutilized tool in the fight against antimicrobial resistance

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a significant and urgent global public health threat, requiring immediate and sustained political attention. This growing challenge demands the use of all available measures to...

3 October, 2024

3 min read

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The enduring legacy of a forgotten killer and its modern-day threat

As mpox cases spread across Europe, experts suggest this rise may be linked to declining immunity against its far more lethal relative, smallpox. In 1970, doctors in the Democratic Republic of Congo encountered a case...

3 October, 2024

6 min read

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AI enlisted to design vaccines against pandemic threats

UW Medicine will lead one of the seven new centers in a network funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to prepare against a variety of dangerous pathogens. NIAID is part of the...

2 October, 2024

4 min read

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Mpox: African scientists at the forefront of a global health crisis

For decades, mpox, a zoonotic disease caused by the monkeypox virus, has posed a persistent public health challenge in parts of Central and West Africa, where it is endemic. Despite its impact, the disease remained...

2 October, 2024

4 min read

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Scouting the terrain: How molecular virology shapes the fight against pandemics

One of the first moves a general makes before a battle is to scout the terrain. Without understanding the battlefield, tactics, strategy, and supply lines mean little. Similarly, when doctors, researchers, and...

26 September, 2024

4 min read

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Survey highlights growing threat of mosquito-borne diseases amid climate change

A recent survey commissioned by the Abbott Pandemic Defense Coalition reveals that 61% of infectious disease professionals believe mosquito-borne pathogens pose the greatest threat as climate change intensifies. This...

26 September, 2024

4 min read

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Global Health Cast Edition 78

Seventy-Eighth Edition of the Global Health Cast presented by Prof. Schmitt and Dr. Sanicas.

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21 September, 2024

1 min read

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Groundbreaking discovery in plant immunity offers new hope for virus-resistant crops and human disease prevention

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery, uncovering how plants prevent viruses from being passed to their offspring. This finding not only holds promise for developing healthier crops but may also contribute to...

20 September, 2024

4 min read

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RSV vaccination in older adults with health conditions is cost-effective

Targeting vaccination programs for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to older adults with underlying health conditions is a cost-effective way to reduce disease, according to a new modelling study. RSV infections cause...

16 September, 2024

3 min read

After exposing the lymphoid organ-chips to viral proteins, activated T cells (purple) and B cells (blue) cluster together to promote antibody production, just as they do in real lymphoid organs. CREDIT © 2024 Jeger-Madiot et al. Originally published in Journal of Experimental Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20240289

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Artificial lymphoid organs could help predict efficacy of booster vaccines

Researchers at the Institut Pasteur in France have developed artificial “lymphoid organ-chips” that recreate much of the human immune system’s response to booster vaccines. The technology, described in an article to be...

16 September, 2024

3 min read