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NIH: Ebola vaccine prompts immune response
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NIH: Ebola vaccine prompts immune response

The Ebola virus spreads through direct contact with the blood or secretions of an infected person. The 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the largest Ebola outbreak in history. As of early December, more than 17,000...

17 December, 2014
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Finding the Ebola virus’ vulnerable points
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Finding the Ebola virus’ vulnerable points

We know what antibodies stop it in its tracks—we now know where they attach. The latest Ebola outbreak has dwarfed any that have occurred since the discovery of the virus in 1976; previous outbreaks have had lethality...

9 December, 2014
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HIV: Why is the virus so ‘successful’?
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HIV: Why is the virus so ‘successful’?

HIV has repeatedly made the jump from animals to humans. But only once did it spread around the world. Jonathan Ball, professor of virology at the University of Nottingham, asks why. In Cameroon, about 100 years ago, an...

9 December, 2014
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Ebola death toll nears 7,000
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Ebola death toll nears 7,000

The death toll from the worst Ebola outbreak on record has reached nearly 7,000 in West Africa, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. The toll of 6,928 dead showed a leap of just over 1,200 since the WHO released...

3 December, 2014
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