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Chikungunya

Fill Form to Download Overview Chikungunya is a viral disease with fever, severe joint pain, and rash transmitted by infected Aedes mosquitoes. The virus was first isolated in Tanzania in 1952 and has since spread...

3 September, 2025

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Overview of meningitis in the Philippines

In collaboration with . Visit us at: & for more information. Professor Emeritus Lulu Bravo is the Executive Director of the Philippine Foundation for Vaccination and Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist...

8 October, 2024

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Nipah outbreaks in Bangladesh: age and breathing difficulties of infected patients increase the risk of disease spread

Nipah virus, a bat-borne paramyxovirus found throughout South and South East Asia, has been identified by WHO as an emerging infectious disease that may cause severe epidemics in the near future. Infections in humans...

9 May, 2019

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Smallpox: the world’s first eradicated disease

Smallpox is a debilitating and occasionally fatal disease that’s highly contagious. Prior to 1980, the disease killed 3 out of every 10 people who became infected, according to the National Institute of Allergy...

25 April, 2019

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Gut cells are gatekeepers of infectious brain diseases, study finds

Fresh insights into infectious brain conditions help to explain why some people – and animals – are more at risk than others. The study reveals how prion diseases – which include variant Creutzfeldt...

15 December, 2016

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Researcher develops drug to non-invasively diagnose infectious diseases

A professor at The University of New Mexico has developed a new, groundbreaking drug that could revolutionize the diagnosis of infectious diseases. Dr. Jeffrey P. Norenberg, a professor and director of the...

13 December, 2016

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Building a vaccine against chagas disease: SLU scientists identify potential new approach

Saint Louis University Center for Vaccine Development researchers have identified a potential new target for vaccines that activates a part of the immune system not previously known to be protective against Chagas...

3 November, 2016

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As earth warms, the diseases that may lie within permafrost become a bigger worry

Scientists are witnessing the theoretical turning into reality: infectious microbes emerging from a deep freeze This past summer anthrax killed a 12-year-old boy in a remote part of Siberia. At least 20 other people...

20 October, 2016

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Unvaccinated adults cost the US more than $7 billion a year

Vaccine-preventable diseases among adults cost the U.S. economy $8.95 billion in 2015, and unvaccinated individuals are responsible for 80 percent, or $7.1 billion, of the tab, according to the most comprehensive...

17 October, 2016

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