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Virus found in 2001 hospitalizes kids at same rate as flu

A respiratory virus that was unknown to doctors until 2001, and has no treatment, causes the same severity of illness in young children as the flu, according to the largest study to estimate the infection’s U.S...

26 February, 2013

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New whooping cough strain may resist vaccine

The United States experienced an unusually high outbreak of whooping cough in 2012–the largest in 50 years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tallied 41,880 cases in a preliminary count, including 18...

26 February, 2013

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WHO makes no change to risk assessment for novel coronavirus

The recent infection of a patient in England with a SARS-like virus did not change the World Health Organization’s risk assessment of the novel coronavirus. The WHO said that the new case, however, does indicate that...

15 February, 2013

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U.S. health officials find potentially vaccine-resistant whooping cough

Researchers have discovered the first cases of whooping cough in the U.S. caused by a germ that may be resistant to the vaccine, according to a recent report in the New England Journal of Medicine. Scientists from the U...

15 February, 2013

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New SARS-like virus shows person-to-person transmission

A third patient in Britain has contracted a new SARS-like virus, becoming the second confirmed British case in a week and showing the deadly infection is being spread from person to person, health officials said on...

14 February, 2013

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Chinese genetics may explain how flu virus hits some groups harder

A genetic variant commonly found in Chinese people may help explain why some got seriously ill with swine flu, a discovery scientists say could help pinpoint why flu viruses hit some populations particularly hard and...

14 February, 2013

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Injection-free vaccination technique could address global vaccine challenge for HIV, malaria

Scientists at King’s College London have demonstrated the ability to deliver a dried live vaccine to the skin without a traditional needle, and shown for the first time that this technique is powerful enough to...

5 February, 2013

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The final battle against polio?

There’s no one place a virus goes to die — but that doesn’t make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted...

31 January, 2013

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NIH-developed candidate dengue vaccine shows promise in early-stage trial

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) developed candidate dengue vaccine which found to be safe and to stimulate a strong immune response in most vaccine recipients. The early-stage clinical trial...

29 January, 2013

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Duke researchers say gene studies can help diagnose flu, other infectious diseases

Duke University researchers have found a way to diagnose infectious diseases such as flu and staph infections more quickly by looking for responses in a patient’s genes. Genomics, a field of genetics that takes into...

22 January, 2013

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