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Ebola virus uses a protein decoy to subvert the host immune response

In a study published in the open access journal PLOS Pathogens, researchers at Emory University have discovered a potentially important mechanism by which the Ebola virus alters and evades the immune response of its...

28 December, 2012

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Nigeria: Expected HIV vaccine

After nearly 30 years of desperately searching for solutions to the Human-Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV, the vermin that leads to the deadly Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, AIDS, the world may soon heave a sigh of...

6 December, 2012

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The last stand

Pakistan’s failure to eradicate the polio virus may have some serious implications – ones that go far beyond the medical. The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) has...

4 December, 2012

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Scientists question the designation of some emerging diseases

The Ebola, Marburg and Lassa viruses are commonly referred to as emerging diseases, but leading scientists say these life-threatening viruses have been around for centuries. In a perspective in the Nov. 9 issue of the...

4 December, 2012

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World AIDS Day: No vaccine yet, but recent antibody discoveries spark hope

Dec. 1 has been World AIDS Day, and across the world, patients, activists, families and friends will be gathering, talking, celebrating and hoping. While 2012 has brought some measure of progress to the search for...

4 December, 2012

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New coronavirus related to viruses from bats

The virus that is causing alarm among global public health authorities after it killed a man in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia earlier this year and is now linked to two other cases of disease, is a novel type of coronavirus most...

21 November, 2012

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Vaccination against pneumonia protecting millions of children in developing countries

A vaccine against the leading cause of pneumonia is protecting millions of children in developing countries, according to figures compiled to mark the fourth World Pneumonia Day observed on November 12, according to...

19 November, 2012

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Colour-coded blood test that turns blue if you have HIV is 10 times more sensitive than current methods

A test for HIV that is 10 times more sensitive and a fraction of the cost of current methods, has been developed by British scientists. It uses nanotechnology to give a result that can be seen with the naked eye by...

30 October, 2012

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3% of Ukrainians infected with hepatitis C virus

3% of Ukraine’s population is infected with hepatitis C virus, chief infectious diseases specialist of the Healthcare Ministry of Ukraine, head of the Bohomolets National Medical University Infectious Diseases...

29 October, 2012

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Infectious diseases account for 63 percent of deaths in Africa – WHO official

Communicable diseases account for 63 percent of deaths in the African region, with emphasis on HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, according to the regional director of the World Health Organization for Africa, Luis Gomes Sambo...

23 October, 2012

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