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Polio vaccine effort in Syria reaches 1.4 million children as volunteers brave violence

Despite grave danger, a campaign to combat the spread of polio in rebel-held Syria has been surprisingly successful, with volunteers inoculating about 1.4 million children since the beginning of the year. The...

27 June, 2014

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How Congress brought the measles back

In 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made a stunning declaration: Measles — a disease that once infected 3 million to 4 million Americans each year, and killed 500 of them — had been eliminated in the...

23 June, 2014

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Dengue vaccine could be ready by end 2015: media report

A drug giant has achieved breakthroughs in the development of a dengue vaccine, which could be ready by the end of next year, the Straits Times reported Monday. Guillaume Leroy, head of the dengue vaccine unit of drug...

20 June, 2014

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Forgetful T cells ‘a cause of increased infection risk in newborns’

When it comes to the immune system of newborns, popular belief holds that their immune cells are weak, making them more prone to infection. But a new study from Cornell University in New York, NY, suggests that an...

16 June, 2014

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NIH awards Scripps Research $13M grant to develop AIDS vaccine

A research team from the The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has been awarded a grant of over $13 million from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease of the National Institutes of Health to research...

13 June, 2014

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Evaluating ‘acquired immunity’ may improve estimates of infectious disease risk

A new health study that accounts for “acquired immunity” when evaluating the risk of microbial illness from food or environmental exposures suggests that some current approaches may significantly...

6 June, 2014

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Hepatitis B infant immunization protects through adolescent years

A seroprotective response to a challenge dose of hepatitis B vaccine was seen in more than 90% of study participants who received the vaccine an infant, according to recent study findings published in Pediatrics. Amy B...

2 June, 2014

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Spreading polio remains a global hazard

Just when it looked as if polio was nearing global eradication, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the international spread of polio a public health emergency that warranted aggressive control measures. In...

26 May, 2014

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Early vaccination could save lives, dollars in next flu pandemic, study shows

Early vaccination could save both lives and money during the next flu pandemic, according to a study led by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers. Using lessons learned from the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic...

26 May, 2014

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Vaccine development: thinking out of the cold box

Heat is rendering life-saving vaccines ineffective in areas which need them most. What will it take for the drug companies to act? Immunisation is widely accepted to be one of the great public health successes of recent...

26 May, 2014

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