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China plays active role in combating emerging global infectious diseases: Vice Premier

China takes seriously the prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases and has played an active role in global emergency response to such health threats, visiting Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong said here...

25 June, 2015

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Putting an end to infectious diseases

Infectious diseases remain a major concern, with the government calling on all stakeholders to do their part in taking preventive measures and investing in tackling the problem. While getting adventurous with food has...

15 June, 2015

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Study: Infectious diseases can make you dumber

Troubling new research suggests infections can impair your cognitive ability, as measured by IQ tests. The Danish study, published in the Public Library of Science journal PLOS ONE, is the largest of its kind to show a...

28 May, 2015

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Malaria and Epstein-Barr Virus: A Lethal Combination

A recent study in PLOS Pathogens investigates how Epstein-Barr virus and malaria co-infection may create a lethal combination if the timing is right. Epstein-Barr virus and malaria are two infections that can each be...

28 May, 2015

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Mobile microscope will help battle diseases

A new mobile phone microscope uses video to detect and quantify infection by parasitic worms in a drop of blood. The CellScope Loa device was developed by a research team led by engineers at the University of...

22 May, 2015

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Pediatric infectious disease expert sheds light on vaccine myths

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, vaccines have saved more the 732,000 lives in the past two decades and studies have repeatedly shown that they are the best way to protect our communities...

15 May, 2015

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Rubella virus officially eliminated from the Americas

The disease joins the ranks of polio and smallpox It’s official: rubella, a disease that can be deadly for fetuses, has been eliminated from the Americas. The news was announced today by a scientific panel...

4 May, 2015

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Vaccination must be scaled up in Ebola-affected countries

A growing risk of outbreaks of measles, pertussis, and other vaccine-preventable diseases in countries affected by Ebola must be countered by urgent scaling up of routine immunization activities, according to the World...

12 April, 2015

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Researchers find T cells target dengue virus at the skin infection site

A team of researchers working in Singapore has found that human T cells actually target dengue viral infections in the skin, which is the normal infection site. In their paper published in the journal Science...

30 March, 2015

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The measles outbreak is twice as big as you thought

The number of U.S. measles cases has continued climbing toward 200, with 173 cases noted in the CDC’s most recent report March 6 — but that’s only half the story. If you add in the cases multiplying north of the border...

16 March, 2015

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