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To slow the spread of infectious diseases, NSF, NIH, USDA support new research

Scientists will study how diseases are transmitted among humans, other animals and the environment. Emerging pandemic disease outbreaks such as Ebola increasingly threaten global public health and world economies...

28 August, 2015

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Handheld bio-optical sensor helps detect infectious disease

Anitoa Systems, a Palo Alto, Cailifornia (US) startup established in 2011, partnering with Zhejiang University of China, has successfully demonstrated a handheld real time quantitative-polymerase-chain-reaction system...

22 May, 2015

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Diagnosing infectious diseases at the point-of-care

A major problem with current testing for infectious diseases in Africa is that it focuses on individual diseases and cannot reliably discriminate between them. Since most infectious diseases have the same feverish...

30 March, 2015

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7 facts about vaccines that show why they’re one of the most important inventions in human history

There’s a disease spreading right now, a disease that until recently, we’d considered eliminated — something that wasn’t spreading anymore except in places where it was imported from outside the country. But as the...

3 March, 2015

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Global rise in total human infectious disease outbreaks: Research on emerging patterns, per-capita declines

The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa has dramatically raised awareness of the global burden of infectious disease and raised questions about the preparedness of public health systems. Although non-communicable...

5 November, 2014

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Vaccine ignorance — deadly and contagious

In the absence of credible, strong political leadership, paranoia about disease can go viral. We’ve seen this happen around the world with a wide range of illnesses, from swine flu to SARS to Ebola. And even after...

24 October, 2014

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Infectious disease outbreaks require coordinated, high-tech responses

As the world grows smaller, warmer and wetter, governments need to have an organizational blueprint about how to best respond to infectious disease outbreaks, according to researchers. Writing in the journal Science...

29 September, 2014

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Copenhagen Consensus 2012: Five ways to step up the battle against the biggest killer diseases

It is difficult to overstate how much the fight against infectious diseases has improved the human condition in the last century. In research released today, for Copenhagen Consensus 2012, economists Dean Jamison...

2 May, 2012

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New strategies for treatment of infectious diseases

The immune system protects from infections by detecting and eliminating invading pathogens. These two strategies form the basis of conventional clinical approaches in the fight against infectious diseases.

29 February, 2012

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