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The final battle against polio?

There’s no one place a virus goes to die — but that doesn’t make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted...

31 January, 2013

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High vaccine prices ignored by ‘Decade of Vaccines’ blueprint

Governments meeting at the World Health Organization’s Executive Board (WHO EB) must seize the opportunity to improve serious shortcomings in the document that will drive the global community’s vaccines response in the...

31 January, 2013

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Designer bacteria may lead to better vaccines

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a menu of 61 new strains of genetically engineered bacteria that may improve the efficacy of vaccines for diseases such as flu, pertussis, cholera and HPV...

22 January, 2013

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Duke researchers say gene studies can help diagnose flu, other infectious diseases

Duke University researchers have found a way to diagnose infectious diseases such as flu and staph infections more quickly by looking for responses in a patient’s genes. Genomics, a field of genetics that takes into...

22 January, 2013

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On a ‘PATH’-breaking initiative to develop vaccine for diarrheal diseases

With the aim to specifically cater to the Indian health scenario, the India chapter of Programme for Appropriate Technologies in Health (PATH), a global NGO working in 70 countries, is in the process of developing a...

22 January, 2013

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Infectious diseases remain key agents of the debilitating poverty – WHO

The World Health Organization (WHO) 2012 Global Report for Research on Infectious Diseases of Poverty says infectious diseases remain key agents of the debilitating poverty afflicting so much of the world today. The...

22 January, 2013

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Researchers discover novel way to make one-time flu vaccine

Every year, between 3,000 and 49,000 people die from the flu and its complications. That’s a drop in the bucket compared to the influenza pandemic of 1918, which took the lives of between 20 million and 40 million...

14 January, 2013

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Don’t let vaccine critics disrupt supply to world’s poor

One of the greatest medical achievements of our time is at imminent risk of being undermined by bad science. Thanks to a herculean effort by health advocates, 78 percent of children in low-income countries receive the...

13 January, 2013

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Scientists identify infection strategy of widespread virus

Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have mapped the molecular mechanism by which a virus known as cytomegalovirus (CMV) so successfully infects its hosts. This discovery paves the way for new research avenues aimed...

13 January, 2013

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Superspreaders found to be major contributors to pandemics

Scientists are learning more about superspreaders, people who transmit infections to a much greater than expected number of new hosts, including that they may be the driving force behind pandemics. During the 2003 SARS...

9 January, 2013

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