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Price tag of saving the world from disease: $344 billion

Infectious diseases are incubating everywhere across the world—ranging from the deadly Ebola virus to the more common yet debilitating influenza—to often devastating effect. It raises the question of how large a premium...

19 January, 2015

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Injectable, 3D vaccines may fight cancer and infectious diseases

Scientists may have found a way to create injectable, 3D vaccines that could help fight cancer. They’ve shown a non-surgical injection of programmable biomaterial that spontaneously assembles in vivo into a 3D...

12 December, 2014

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Next-gen polio vaccine tackles wild virus emergency

Vaccine technology being developed at The University of Queensland could hold the key to completely eradicating polio by removing live virus from the vaccine production process. A polio inoculation in use since the...

14 November, 2014

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Global rise in total human infectious disease outbreaks: Research on emerging patterns, per-capita declines

The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa has dramatically raised awareness of the global burden of infectious disease and raised questions about the preparedness of public health systems. Although non-communicable...

5 November, 2014

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UGA researchers discover route for potential Chagas disease animal vaccine

Researchers at the University of Georgia have discovered a new way to direct a vaccine to the parasite that causes Chagas disease, a leading cause of death among young to middle-age adults in areas of South America...

3 November, 2014

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Ebola can survive on surfaces for almost two months

Tests reveal certain strains survive for weeks when stored at low temperatures. The number of confirmed Ebola cases passed the 10,000 mark, despite efforts to curb its spread. And while the disease typically dies on...

3 November, 2014

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Global agency needed for battling infectious diseases

Ebola underlines the urgent need for a new way of responding to global epidemics In our hyper-connected world, we can no longer dismiss certain threats as being “over there”. Local phenomena can have global...

29 October, 2014

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How some exposure to Ebola could lead to immunity

Epidemics like the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa often get started when people make contact with animals carrying infectious diseases, but, paradoxically, a certain amount of human exposure to a virus at its...

28 October, 2014

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Vaccine ignorance — deadly and contagious

In the absence of credible, strong political leadership, paranoia about disease can go viral. We’ve seen this happen around the world with a wide range of illnesses, from swine flu to SARS to Ebola. And even after...

24 October, 2014

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On World Rabies Day, here’s all you need to know about rabies and its prevention

September 28 has been World Rabies Day. It has been recognised as such by the United Nations and marked every year since 2007. The campaign is coordinated by the Global Alliance for Rabies Control. The day has been...

3 October, 2014

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