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New project set to combat virus

China’s science and health authorities have announced a new project to fight the H7N9 virus, and plan to develop a vaccine within seven months. The Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Health and...

12 April, 2013

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CDC preps vaccine for new bird flu strain

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday it was monitoring a new strain of bird flu and has started work on a vaccine just in case it is needed. So far, the strain known as avian influenza A...

7 April, 2013

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Flu kills 105 children; most not vaccinated, CDC says

Influenza has killed 105 children this year, federal officials reported on Friday, and almost none of them had been vaccinated against the virus. That’s triple the number who died during last year’s flu season. But flu...

2 April, 2013

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World TB Day

March 24 marked World TB Day, commemorating the date in 1882 when the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis was announced. World TB Day serves to raise awareness about TB issues and to support worldwide TB control...

25 March, 2013

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CDC warns health officials to be alert for deadly new virus

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned state and local health officials about potential infections from a deadly virus previously unseen in humans that has now sickened 14 people and killed eight...

12 March, 2013

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Scientists discover naturally-occurring protein that could lead to a herpes vaccine

Scientists at the Monash Institute of Medical Research announced last week that they had discovered a link between a naturally-occurring protein in the female reproductive tract and protection from sexually transmitted...

11 March, 2013

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Virus found in 2001 hospitalizes kids at same rate as flu

A respiratory virus that was unknown to doctors until 2001, and has no treatment, causes the same severity of illness in young children as the flu, according to the largest study to estimate the infection’s U.S...

26 February, 2013

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New whooping cough strain may resist vaccine

The United States experienced an unusually high outbreak of whooping cough in 2012–the largest in 50 years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tallied 41,880 cases in a preliminary count, including 18...

26 February, 2013

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U.S. health officials find potentially vaccine-resistant whooping cough

Researchers have discovered the first cases of whooping cough in the U.S. caused by a germ that may be resistant to the vaccine, according to a recent report in the New England Journal of Medicine. Scientists from the U...

15 February, 2013

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Future flu vaccine may provide wider protection: US expert

Researchers are trying to develop new flu vaccines that may provide wider protection to people by including more of the virus strains in the vaccine, a US expert told Xinhua in an exclusive interview. The United States...

29 January, 2013

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