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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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Researchers track the origins of HIV virus

A new study suggests that HIV may have affected humans much longer than is currently believed. In fact, the virus might have been around undetected for so many centuries that a human community developed some degree of...

13 January, 2013

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Modified antibodies trigger immune response, point to novel vaccine design strategies

In an approach with the potential to aid therapeutic vaccine development, Whitehead Institute scientists have shown that enzymatically modified antibodies can be used to generate highly targeted, potent responses from...

9 January, 2013

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Scientists move closer to long-lasting flu vaccine

As this year’s flu season gathers steam, doctors and pharmacists have a fresh stock of vaccines to offer their patients. The vaccines usually provide strong protection against the virus, but only for a while...

28 December, 2012

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Micro-needle patch may advance world measles vaccination effort

Measles vaccine given with painless and easy-to-administer micro-needle patches can immunize against measles at least as well as vaccine given with conventional hypodermic needles, according to research done by the...

10 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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100 millionth person receives lifesaving meningitis vaccine

A revolutionary meningitis vaccine will reach the 100 millionth person this week in a region of Africa that has been plagued by deadly epidemics for more than a century. The milestone will take place in northern...

4 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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