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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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Racing ahead of disease outbreaks: $12 million in new research grants

Ebola, MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome), malaria, antibiotic-resistant infections: Is our interaction with the environment somehow responsible for their increased incidence? The joint National Science Foundation...

19 September, 2014

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Gut microbes affect flu vaccine effectiveness

Researchers have discovered that the composition of the microorganisms in the gut affect effectivity of the seasonal flu vaccine. This potentially means that your gut bacteria affect how effective the vaccine will be...

19 September, 2014

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Pitt scientists collaborate in effort to combat the deadly MERS virus

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is leading an international team of scientists working on a vaccine to immunize camels, which are believed to be infecting humans with a contagious and deadly virus...

19 September, 2014

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Will the Ebola virus go airborne?

Experts say the possibility remains remote. Could Ebola go airborne? That’s the fear set off last week by a New York Times op-ed entitled “What We’re Afraid to Say about Ebola” from Michael Osterholm, director of the...

17 September, 2014

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Anatomy of a virus

A mass spectrometry-based analysis of influenza virions provides a detailed view of their composition. A spherical influenza virion is an orderly hodgepodge comprised of hundreds of proteins that originate from both the...

17 September, 2014

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‘Cocooning’ reduces whooping cough risk in infants

Vaccinating parents of newborn infants against pertussis provides moderate protection against the infectious disease in young infants, a study has shown. This targeted vaccination strategy, called cocooning, has been...

17 September, 2014

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Unstoppable: is Ebola mutating with unknown consequences before our eyes?

US President Barack Obama says the Ebola virus, currently attacking western Africa, could mutate – making it even more dangerous. The virus has already changed its genome, with unknown consequences. Every virus...

17 September, 2014

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Irish scientists develop improved malaria vaccine

Scientists at University College Cork in Ireland have successfully finished pre-clinical testing of an experimental vaccine against malaria delivered through the skin. The method is an improvement on this type of...

12 September, 2014

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Chinese study of serogroup 6 S. pneumoniae finds no antibiotic-resistant clones

A survey of serogroup 6 Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from children in China has identified no antibiotic-resistant clones, leading the authors to speculate that the isolates may be under antibiotic selective...

9 September, 2014

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