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Japan disease institute says that aerosol transmission could lead to COVID infection

Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) announced on its website on March 28 that the coronavirus can be transmitted through inhalation of aerosols floating in the air containing the virus. The...

31 March, 2022

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Noma, a neglected tropical disease?

Noma is also known as necrotizing ulcerative stomatitis or cancrum oris, a severely debilitating orofacial infection. It has been known for centuries and was already reported by Hippocrates and other physicians of the...

30 March, 2022

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Test can predict severe dengue infection, study finds

Researchers have created a test that can predict which dengue patients will likely have mild symptoms and which should be clinically monitored for a high risk of severe illness. Most of the about 390 million people...

30 March, 2022

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NUS-Monash University collaboration produces universal flu vaccine candidate

Influenza, commonly referred to as “flu”, is a major global public health concern and a huge economic burden to societies. Seasonal influenza epidemics afflict between 13 to 100 million individuals annually, including...

28 March, 2022

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Vaccine-induced T cells provide long-lasting immune response to COVID-19: study

The human body’s T cells provide long-lasting memory against the virus following vaccination or infection from COVID-19, a study led by the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) has...

25 March, 2022

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How dangerous is BA.2, the new COVID-19 variant?

As COVID-19 case numbers climb in East Asia and now Europe — a surge largely attributed to the BA.2 subvariant of omicron — it makes sense that concern would rise in the U.S. It’s happened before during the course of...

25 March, 2022

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Nanoparticle-based COVID-19 vaccine could target future infectious diseases

Just one dose of a new nanoparticle-based COVID-19 vaccine was enough to produce an immune response in animals on track with vaccines currently in clinical use. And with minor changes, Northwestern University...

23 March, 2022

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Effectiveness of antibiotics significantly reduced when multiple bugs present

A study has found that much higher doses of antibiotics are needed to eliminate a bacterial infection of the airways when other microbes are present. It helps explain why respiratory infections often persist in people...

21 March, 2022

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New modelling framework developed to improve infectious disease control

A new model to analyse infectious disease outbreak data has been developed by mathematicians that could be used to improve disease tracking and control. Researchers from the University of Nottingham developed a new data...

15 March, 2022

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New study confirms bioengineered RSV protein vaccine evokes protective immune response

Close interactions with infectious disease set both UC Santa Cruz graduate student Ana Nuñez Castrejon and Associate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Rebecca DuBois on the path of studying respiratory syncytial...

14 March, 2022

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