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Early warning: Internet surveillance predicts disease outbreak

The habit of Googling for an online diagnosis before visiting a GP can provide early warning of an infectious disease epidemic. In a new study published in Lancet Infectious Diseases, internet-based surveillance has...

24 January, 2014

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Patients with untreatable tuberculosis ‘are spreading infection’

A new study published in The Lancet has found that patients in South Africa with untreatable tuberculosis are being discharged into the community, which, according to researchers, is contributing to the spread of the...

20 January, 2014

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Research uncovers key difference between our bodies’ fight against viruses and bacteria

Scientists at The University of Nottingham have discovered a key difference in the biological mechanisms by which the immune system responds to viral and bacterial pathogens. The study, published in the journal Nature...

15 January, 2014

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The vaccination effect: 100 million cases of contagious disease prevented

Vaccination programs for children have prevented more than 100 million cases of serious contagious disease in the United States since 1924, according to a new study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The...

7 January, 2014

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Oral cholera vaccine ‘offers protection for five years’

Cholera can now be prevented effectively for five years with an oral vaccine, a clinical trial in India has shown. Details of the trial are to be published in the December issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The...

7 January, 2014

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Top 5 health threats in 2014

The disease detectives at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named the top five global health threats they expect to tackle in 2014: 1. The emergence and spread of new microbes While it’s rare, CDC...

5 January, 2014

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Building better Malaria vaccine possible through mixing right cocktail

The study, led by Sheetij Dutta, from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, USA, and colleagues, focused on a protein called AMA1 needed by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite to invade blood cells and cause...

5 January, 2014

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Team discovers new form of virus reproduction

Each small step that science takes to discover how viruses infect cells is always very valuable to researchers and society, since it provides relevant information to fight infections. However, the recent discovery made...

27 December, 2013

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Vaccines have prevented millions of disease cases

A study comparing rates of contagious disease before and after the introduction of vaccines finds that vaccines have prevented more than 100 million contagious diseases in the United States since 1924. The study...

16 December, 2013

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Breakthrough vaccines

There needs to be a plan in place to solve the problems hindering development of vaccines against certain diseases, finds Wayne C Koff. Vaccines are one of the great success stories in the history of individual and...

13 December, 2013

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