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Unraveling West Nile Virus: Immune vulnerabilities and the search for better prevention

The U.S. is currently grappling with another outbreak of West Nile virus (WNV), a mosquito-borne illness that has become the leading cause of epidemic encephalitis in the country. The Centers for Disease Control and...

9 October, 2024

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Global Health Cast Edition 72

Seventy-second Edition of the Global Health Cast presented by Prof. Schmitt and Dr. Sanicas. Download the PDF here.🔒 Premium Content - For FreeUnlock this content by becoming a Global Health Press subscriber. Join for...

7 August, 2024

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Tuberculosis: gene editing could add new power to a 100-year-old vaccine

Tuberculosis dates back more than 9,000 years. It is the most infectious bacterial disease and in 2022 10.6 million people fell ill with it. Of these 23% occurred in Africa. The only vaccine against tuberculosis, the...

26 July, 2024

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Vaccine boosts innate immunity in people with dormant immune cells

Humans are protected by two branches of the immune system. Innate immunity provides built-in defense against widespread characteristics of bacteria and viruses, while adaptive immunity memorizes individual pathogens...

13 January, 2024

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NIH research identifies opportunities to improve future HIV vaccine candidates

Study suggests greater CD8+ T-cell activity may increase HIV immunity An effective HIV vaccine may need to prompt strong responses from immune cells called CD8+ T cells to protect people from acquiring HIV, according to...

20 December, 2023

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A golden age of vaccines is here. What it means for you

Roll up your sleeves. Effective new vaccines have hit the market for everything from pneumonia to shingles to RSV to, of course, Covid-19. And that’s just the beginning. There were 258 vaccines in development as of...

24 November, 2023

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Do our own bugs determine our response to vaccines? – Likely yes!

What determines whether a vaccine is going to be effective at protecting us against disease? In a recent paper in the Journal of Immunology, Dr. Jim Kublin and his research team identified an unexpected role of the...

22 November, 2023

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Harnessing the healing power within our cells

IMB researchers have identified a pathway in cells that could be used to reprogram the body’s immune system to fight back against both chronic inflammatory and infectious diseases. Targeting both bacteria and...

20 January, 2023

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New study from UCI reveals how to rejuvenate the immune system of elderly people and reduce their risk of infectious disease

A new study, led by researchers from the University of California, Irvine, identifies a reason for why older adults are significantly more susceptible to infectious diseases than younger people, a critical societal...

12 April, 2022

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Tuberculosis vaccine strengthens immune system

A tuberculosis vaccine developed 100 years ago also makes vaccinated persons less susceptible to other infections. While this effect has been recognized for a long time, it is not known what causes it. Together with...

17 June, 2020

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