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Nanomedicine: A multipronged approach to tackle infectious diseases

The burgeoning incidence of infectious diseases (IDs), especially with a surge in chronic infections, pandemic outbreaks, and possible emerging biothreats, pose a significant challenge to public health. Globally...

18 April, 2023

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Climate change is increasing the risk of infectious diseases worldwide

From COVID to Lyme disease to various fungal afflictions, climate change has already worsened over 200 infectious diseases. Heat waves, floods, droughts, and rising temperatures fueled by climate change have made the...

28 February, 2023

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Harnessing the healing power within our cells

IMB researchers have identified a pathway in cells that could be used to reprogram the body’s immune system to fight back against both chronic inflammatory and infectious diseases. Targeting both bacteria and...

20 January, 2023

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Over half of infectious diseases made worse by climate change

The link between global warming and the increased risk of diseases spread by organisms such as viruses and bacteria has been well known for a few years – cholera, malaria, Lyme disease, West Nile virus and the Zika...

25 August, 2022

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Viruses that were on hiatus during Covid are back — and behaving in unexpected ways

For nearly two years, as the Covid pandemic disrupted life around the globe, other infectious diseases were in retreat. Now, as the world rapidly dismantles the measures put in place to slow spread of Covid, the viral...

27 May, 2022

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Nanoparticle-based COVID-19 vaccine could target future infectious diseases

Just one dose of a new nanoparticle-based COVID-19 vaccine was enough to produce an immune response in animals on track with vaccines currently in clinical use. And with minor changes, Northwestern University...

23 March, 2022

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‘Critical mass’ of scientists launches Institute to tackle infectious diseases

Imperial College London launched a pioneering new Institute to tackle some of the biggest challenges in infectious disease. The new Institute of Infection brings together one of the largest critical masses of...

11 October, 2021

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China lists Covid-19 behind only AIDS as second deadly category B infectious disease In 2020

China included COVID-19 statistics in a newly published national statutory infectious diseases report, listing the new coronavirus as the second-highest deadly infectious disease after HIV/AIDS among category B...

30 March, 2021

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Climate change ushers in era of uncertainty for infectious diseases

Anthropogenic climate change results from the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This phenomenon is responsible for a relentless upward trend in global temperature. The hottest years ever recorded over...

18 September, 2020

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Microbiome may mediate link between climate change and new diseases

Scientists have proposed a new model of animal diseases that includes the role of the microbiome. Their research suggests that climate change may lead to the emergence of new infectious diseases. The COVID-19 pandemic...

29 June, 2020

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