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New vaccine developed
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New vaccine developed

Chinese researchers have developed the world’s first ever vaccine against a strain of enterovirus that can cause hand, foot and mouth disease, a condition commonly affecting small children that can lead to deadly...

29 May, 2013
4 min read
Public Health Enemy No. 1: Ourselves
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Public Health Enemy No. 1: Ourselves

While infectious diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis should remain high on their hit lists, global health leaders are now having to focus more on altering lifestyles than containing outbreaks, the assistant U.S...

18 May, 2013
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SARS-like virus vaccine unlikely, experts say
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SARS-like virus vaccine unlikely, experts say

A virus similar to SARS has spread through hospitals in Europe and the Middle East, prompting fears of human-to-human transmission. But health officials said vaccines were unlikely to play a role in controlling the...

14 May, 2013
3 min read
Threat to measles elimination plans
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Threat to measles elimination plans

Outbreaks of measles are putting Europe’s commitment to eliminate the disease by 2015 under threat, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Levels of vaccination have been too low in some countries...

9 May, 2013
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Mutation could cause ‘severe flu pandemic’
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Mutation could cause ‘severe flu pandemic’

The head of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention says the current strain of bird flu that is causing illness and deaths in China cannot spark a pandemic in its current form – but he added that there...

9 May, 2013
4 min read