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New MenB vaccine could provide babies with protection against deadly MenW strain

New research recently published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases shows that the new MenB vaccine Bexsero (routinely offered to UK infants since September 2015) should provide additional protection against a...

29 January, 2016

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Bacterial ‘superglue’ could speed vaccine creation

Synthetic biologists and an interdisciplinary team based at the University of Oxford recently created a bacterial superglue that researchers may be able to use to speed the development of vaccines. The bacterial...

22 January, 2016

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Bacteria or virus? Diagnostic tool could curb antibiotic overuse

As many as half of the antibiotics prescribed to outpatients in the United States are unnecessary. And many of those scripts come from doctors who aren’t sure whether a patient is infected with bacteria — and needs...

22 January, 2016

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Creating safer polio vaccine strains for the post-eradication era

While the goal of polio virus eradication is in sight, there are concerns about post-eradication manufacturing and stockpiling vaccine stores containing live virus that could escape and repopulate the environment. A...

12 January, 2016

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Scientists identify protein that allows flu virus to replicate in cells

When we are ill with a virus infection, it is because the virus has entered cells in our body and taken over their machinery to make copies of itself. Finding ways to disrupt this process is important for antiviral drug...

12 January, 2016

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New MCR-1 reports warn of untreatable infection threat

The newly identified MCR-1 resistance gene has been detected in six more countries, along with worrisome signs that it can appear alongside other resistance genes, which would make some infections untreatable, according...

12 January, 2016

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Halting march of Zika virus is health priority for 2016

New year, new threat. A virus suspected of triggering fetal brain damage is likely to spread further in 2016. Zika virus was discovered in the Zika forest in Uganda in 1947. For the next 50 years, the virus, which is...

4 January, 2016

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Swine flu: New H1N1 virus in Chinese pigs has potential to cause global pandemic

A new strain of the H1N1 swine flu virus with the potential to “transmit efficiently in humans” and cause a pandemic has been discovered in China. Scientists isolated 139 H1N1 swine flu viruses in pigs in...

4 January, 2016

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Miracle jab to stop Alzheimer’s: Wonder vaccine may hold key to halting disease

Researchers are testing the potency of a vaccine to destroy “toxic tangles”, which are a hallmark of the disease. Trials involving patients with early stages of the incurable condition are already under way. If...

4 January, 2016

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The search for a safer polio vaccine in a polio-free world

Polio, otherwise known as poliomyelitis, is a disease that the world, as a whole, is eager to be rid of. Once it has been permanently destroyed, the medical community will face new challenges. The polio virus has the...

4 January, 2016

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