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New system for emergency wards to help raise alerts for infectious disease and immune reactions among kids

A real-time early warning system to raise alerts about serious immunisation reactions and infectious disease outbreaks among children is to be rolled out for the first time across Victoria’s pediatric hospitals...

23 June, 2014

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U.S. sees record-breaking reports of measles cases

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it had recorded the largest number of reported measles cases in the U.S. during the first five months of any year since 1994. The CDC saw 288 reported cases...

20 June, 2014

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Antibiotics Niet: Soviet use of viruses to cure being considered in U.S.

Antibiotics were “niet” during the Soviet era and, as an alternative, doctors used viruses to cure infections, and this idea is now being considered in the U.S. Overuse of these drugs has produced bacterial resistance...

16 June, 2014

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How do we die? Death trends in the U.S.

A 2012 article detailing how Americans have died over the years is gaining new attention after being reworked by a computer scientist. In the last 200 years, the biggest difference in how Americans die is the enormous...

16 June, 2014

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Killer virus demands open accounting

For many months in 2012 and 2013, Saudi Arabia reassured the world that it was paying close attention to the outbreak of a novel coronavirus in the kingdom, known as Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS. But events...

16 June, 2014

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Evaluating ‘acquired immunity’ may improve estimates of infectious disease risk

A new health study that accounts for “acquired immunity” when evaluating the risk of microbial illness from food or environmental exposures suggests that some current approaches may significantly...

6 June, 2014

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Vaccine development: thinking out of the cold box

Heat is rendering life-saving vaccines ineffective in areas which need them most. What will it take for the drug companies to act? Immunisation is widely accepted to be one of the great public health successes of recent...

26 May, 2014

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The true public detriment of the anti-vaccination movement

Diseases that have long been under control have seen a vast outbreak across the U.S. as an anti-vaccine phenomenon has allowed these once tamed diseases to make a roaring comeback. Although vaccination rates against the...

26 May, 2014

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HIV virus may be killed with bee venom says study

HIV may be referred to as a slowly replicating virus that is capable of invading the human body by way of exchanging bodily fluids with another infected carrier. This invasion is said to be the primary culprit that...

2 May, 2014

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Serious challenges remain in dengue vaccine development

There are several dengue virus vaccine candidates in development, but interference caused by the mechanisms of a live dengue virus vaccine is delaying progress, according to data presented here. “Dengue has been a road...

2 May, 2014

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