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Top 5 health threats in 2014

The disease detectives at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention named the top five global health threats they expect to tackle in 2014: 1. The emergence and spread of new microbes While it’s rare, CDC...

5 January, 2014

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Building better Malaria vaccine possible through mixing right cocktail

The study, led by Sheetij Dutta, from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, USA, and colleagues, focused on a protein called AMA1 needed by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite to invade blood cells and cause...

5 January, 2014

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Team discovers new form of virus reproduction

Each small step that science takes to discover how viruses infect cells is always very valuable to researchers and society, since it provides relevant information to fight infections. However, the recent discovery made...

27 December, 2013

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Israeli study sparks new research into fighting infectious diseases in babies

The need to let helpful microbes do their work weakens a baby’s immune system, a problem challenging an Israeli scientist. That babies are especially sensitive to bacterial infections isn’t news. According to the World...

20 December, 2013

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Single mutation gives virus new target

In a new study published online in the journal PLOS Pathogens, an international team of scientists showed that by swapping a single amino acid they could change the sugar to which the human BK polyomavirus will binds on...

16 December, 2013

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Vaccines have prevented millions of disease cases

A study comparing rates of contagious disease before and after the introduction of vaccines finds that vaccines have prevented more than 100 million contagious diseases in the United States since 1924. The study...

16 December, 2013

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New H7N9 bird flu resists antiviral medication, ‘bigger arsenal’ of drugs and vaccines needed

A new strain of the bird flu has been identified by researchers that remains powerful after becoming resistant to antiviral drugs. The findings, published in Nature Communications, reveals how an avian strain of...

13 December, 2013

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H7N9 influenza virus not adapted to efficient human-to-human transmission

The avian H7N9 influenza virus that emerged earlier this year in China is poorly adapted for sustained transmission between humans, suggesting that the current form of the virus is unlikely to cause a pandemic...

9 December, 2013

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Researchers at University of Pittsburgh create digital database of infectious diseases

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have created a digital database of infectious-disease cases dating back 125 years, a trove of information that could help scientists and public health officials better...

9 December, 2013

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Making the world a healthier place: Breakthrough vaccines

Vaccines are one of the great success stories in the history of individual and public health. They have helped rid the planet of the scourge of smallpox, are poised to eliminate polio, and each year prevent millions of...

6 December, 2013

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