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Samoa’s measles epidemic is part of a global, unprecedented resurgence of cases

Imagine a disease outbreak so severe that if you’re not vaccinated, you flag your home with a red cloth outside your door — so vaccinators can find you. That is what is happening in Samoa, a Pacific Ocean island...

13 December, 2019

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Disease carrying ticks are outside this summer

Lyme disease vaccine candidate VLA15 was granted Fast Track designation by the FDA Before taking a walk in the country woods this summer, health experts suggest protecting yourself from unwanted tick-borne diseases...

17 July, 2019

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Pitt to lead creation of global, cloud-based data system for infectious diseases

Backed by a five-year, $6.7 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health announced that it plans to lead a culture shift in data-sharing rippling...

21 May, 2019

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Vaccine-preventable diseases surge in crisis-hit Venezuela

Vaccine-preventable diseases have not just returned but surged in crisis-hit Venezuela, according to new research presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases...

16 April, 2019

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New tool to track human infectious diseases in Australia

Researchers at CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, have developed a new tool to understand how human infectious diseases found overseas might spread in Australia. Using data from dengue virus outbreaks in...

21 February, 2019

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Concerns over proposed rules for preventing spread of infectious diseases

Federal officials have posted proposed rule changes for how they try to prevent the spread of communicable diseases. One group sees some dangers in the proposals. To federal officials, it’s a way to provide greater...

11 October, 2016

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Study shows that infectious diseases resist globalisation

Human infectious diseases are unlikely to reach the same level of globalisation as the people who transport them, according to new research. More international travel than at any time in history means that human...

3 June, 2016

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The science is clear: Vaccines save and improve lives

Vaccination is considered one of the top 10 medical achievements of the 20th century. Vaccines now protect us from such vaccine preventable diseases as the flu, measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis, polio, and certain...

7 April, 2016

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