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Target cell entry to halt Chikungunya virus

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is transmitted to humans by virus-carrying mosquitoes and has caused recent outbreaks in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. CHIKV infection is characterized by fever, rash and polyarthritis that...

2 May, 2014

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Serious challenges remain in dengue vaccine development

There are several dengue virus vaccine candidates in development, but interference caused by the mechanisms of a live dengue virus vaccine is delaying progress, according to data presented here. “Dengue has been a road...

2 May, 2014

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Scientists find new point of attack on HIV for vaccine development

Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) have discovered a new vulnerable site on HIV that antibodies can attack to prevent infection from a broad range...

25 April, 2014

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Vaccines are safe

Across the world, nearly 4 million children under the age of five die yearly due to vaccine preventable diseases. An alarming number are beginning to occur in the United States as myths surrounding vaccination are...

25 April, 2014

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Emerging tick-borne pathogen may cause inflammation in immunosuppressed patients

The emerging tick-borne pathogen Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis may be the cause of a systemic inflammatory syndrome among people with hematologic malignancies or autoimmune diseases, according to researchers from...

25 April, 2014

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Rapid, broad countermeasures sought against mystery infections

A group of University of Washington scientists is seeking broad, versatile countermeasures effective against several different kinds of viruses and other pathogens. The investigators are part of a national push for...

11 April, 2014

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Ebola has no cure or vaccine

The first two cases of Ebola have been confirmed in Liberia, after spreading from neighbouring Guinea, where the deadly virus has killed 78 people. The two Liberian cases are sisters, one of whom had recently returned...

1 April, 2014

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Dengue virus becomes more dangerous

The dengue virus has adapted. No longer does the virus breed only in freshwater bodies. Recent samples have shown it multiplying even in sewage puddles abundant across Karachi. In the two-room dengue surveillance cell...

28 March, 2014

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Ebola virus identified as source of deadly epidemic in Guinea

Experts in Guinea had been unable to identify the highly contagious disease, whose symptoms – diarrhoea, vomiting and bleeding – were first observed six weeks ago but scientists in the French city of Lyon...

24 March, 2014

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CSP analogues may attenuate S. pneumoniae virulence, resistance

The spread of virulent, antibiotic-resistant strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae may be controllable through the use of competence-stimulating peptide (CSP) analogues, US researchers believe. Using a mouse model of S...

24 March, 2014

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