A French pharmaceutical company says it hopes to have the first vaccine against dengue very soon. Sanofi Pasteur is finalising tests in Africa and Asia and plans to start producing the vaccine by the end of the year The...
The delivery and storage of vaccines poses a big challenge for public health officials in remote locations and the developing world. Most vaccines are stable below or around room-temperature, but they degrade over time...
Monash University researchers have gained new insight into the early stages of our immune response, providing novel pathways to develop treatments for diseases from multiple sclerosis to cancer. In a study published...
The polio virus was detected in 30 sewage samples in Israel, the World Health Organization confirmed, spurring Israel to step up its vaccination efforts. The samples from 10 sites in Israel were mostly from the southern...
Australian researchers have found promising new targets for a vaccine to prevent malaria, a disease that kills more than 600,000 people every year. Researchers at Melbourne’s Burnet Institute and the Papua New...
The H7N9 avian influenza virus responsible for at least 37 deaths in China has traits that could result in a global outbreak of influenza, according to a study published on Wednesday in Nature. An international research...
From the World Health Organisation (WHO) came cheering news at the weekend that finally a vaccine for malaria may just be three years away. The WHO said at the weekend that malaria vaccine trials are on-going on 11...
Two HIV-infected men who had bone marrow transplants to treat their blood cancers have stopped taking their anti¬retroviral drugs and still show no sign of the virus, according to research released Wednesday that...
In a report in BioMed Central’s open access Virology Journal published last Friday, researchers showed a low cost method of detecting the mosquito-bourne dengue virus by using gold nanoparticles. Half of the world’s...
Viroblock, a Swiss start-up, has developed a novel face-mask containing technology that effectively traps and kills H1N1 flu and human corona viruses that pass through air, a statement said. Aimed at helping protect...