The deadly Mers coronavirus that has emerged in Saudi Arabia poses a threat to hospitals because it spreads rapidly and carries a high mortality rate, according to a study out on Thursday. An international team of...
“It’s only a virus.” How often do GPs utter those words over the course of a working day? They mean, of course, that your symptoms are mild, non-specific, and don’t warrant any treatment. If you just go home and rest...
The human papillomavirus, which was known to cause many cases of cervical cancer, is now strongly associated with throat cancers. Luckily, evidence shows that vaccines could prevent the cancers from developing. Michael...
The polio virus was detected in 30 sewage samples in Israel, the World Health Organization confirmed, spurring Israel to step up its vaccination efforts. The samples from 10 sites in Israel were mostly from the southern...
Australian researchers have found promising new targets for a vaccine to prevent malaria, a disease that kills more than 600,000 people every year. Researchers at Melbourne’s Burnet Institute and the Papua New...
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the US-based National Institutes of Health Dr Anthony Fauci has said that thirteen countries receiving U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS...
From the World Health Organisation (WHO) came cheering news at the weekend that finally a vaccine for malaria may just be three years away. The WHO said at the weekend that malaria vaccine trials are on-going on 11...
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have found two compounds, out of a national database of 140,000, that show promise for the development of a vaccine against human adenovirus...
Two HIV-infected men who had bone marrow transplants to treat their blood cancers have stopped taking their anti¬retroviral drugs and still show no sign of the virus, according to research released Wednesday that...
In a report in BioMed Central’s open access Virology Journal published last Friday, researchers showed a low cost method of detecting the mosquito-bourne dengue virus by using gold nanoparticles. Half of the world’s...