To stop the transmission of dengue, a mosquito-borne virus that threatens some 4 billion people worldwide, it’s crucial to focus on people movement, not just on the traditional mosquito control-and-prevention...
A new study suggests that HIV may have affected humans much longer than is currently believed. In fact, the virus might have been around undetected for so many centuries that a human community developed some degree of...
Patients with HIV who get vaccinated with a disabled version of the virus can, in many cases, fight the real one to a draw. A new study shows that injecting heat-inactivated HIV can awaken immune protection in some...
Scientists are learning more about superspreaders, people who transmit infections to a much greater than expected number of new hosts, including that they may be the driving force behind pandemics. During the 2003 SARS...
A research team led by scientists from the University of Pittsburgh recently determined that the presence of a particular immune system molecule effectively prevented tuberculosis of the lungs from becoming active and...
In a study published in the open access journal PLOS Pathogens, researchers at Emory University have discovered a potentially important mechanism by which the Ebola virus alters and evades the immune response of its...
Measles vaccine given with painless and easy-to-administer micro-needle patches can immunize against measles at least as well as vaccine given with conventional hypodermic needles, according to research done by the...
After nearly 30 years of desperately searching for solutions to the Human-Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV, the vermin that leads to the deadly Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, AIDS, the world may soon heave a sigh of...
The Ebola, Marburg and Lassa viruses are commonly referred to as emerging diseases, but leading scientists say these life-threatening viruses have been around for centuries. In a perspective in the Nov. 9 issue of the...
Dec. 1 has been World AIDS Day, and across the world, patients, activists, families and friends will be gathering, talking, celebrating and hoping. While 2012 has brought some measure of progress to the search for...