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The viruses that shaped 2024

This year saw record-breaking surges in dengue and mpox cases, a polio outbreak in Gaza, and the emergence of new viral threats. Dengue cases reached unprecedented levels Dengue fever, a mosquito-borne disease, broke...

13 December, 2024

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The enduring legacy of a forgotten killer and its modern-day threat

As mpox cases spread across Europe, experts suggest this rise may be linked to declining immunity against its far more lethal relative, smallpox. In 1970, doctors in the Democratic Republic of Congo encountered a case...

3 October, 2024

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Mpox: African scientists at the forefront of a global health crisis

For decades, mpox, a zoonotic disease caused by the monkeypox virus, has posed a persistent public health challenge in parts of Central and West Africa, where it is endemic. Despite its impact, the disease remained...

2 October, 2024

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Scientists discover new method Ebola virus uses to infect cells

Researchers find that Ebola virus creates the very tunnels it uses to hide and move within the human body Understanding how viruses travel once inside the human body is critical to develop effective drugs and therapies...

19 December, 2023

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Nicaragua study contradicts long-held belief about dengue immunity

As one of the tropical world’s most pernicious pathogens, the dengue virus is responsible for millions of infections and thousands of deaths each year. Now, researchers have made new discoveries about dengue...

22 November, 2023

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Machine versus virus: Deploying artificial intelligence against future pandemics

How do you design a vaccine against a virus not yet known to man? Doing so could help arm us against future pandemics, by rapidly compressing the time it takes to develop protective vaccines. Most vaccines work by...

20 July, 2023

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Influenza A virus suppresses SARS-CoV-2 replication during co-infection

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv preprint server, researchers examine the interactions between the influenza A virus and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in a co-infected host, as well...

16 February, 2023

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Early action needed to prevent treatment failure, Nigerian research on detectable virus levels shows

National HIV treatment programmes should not wait until people with HIV have viral loads above 1000 copies/ml to provide enhanced adherence counselling, Nigerian researchers report in the journal Lancet Global Health...

16 January, 2023

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New mRNA vaccine to fight 20 known subtypes of influenza

An experimental mRNA-based vaccine against all 20 known subtypes of influenza virus provided broad protection from otherwise lethal flu strains in initial tests, and thus might serve one day as a general preventative...

7 December, 2022

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Unusual Zika virus-specific antibody exhibits ultrapotent neutralization

An unusual type of antibody that even at miniscule levels neutralizes the Zika virus and renders the virus infection undetectable in preclinical models has been identified by a team led by Weill Cornell Medicine...

22 November, 2022

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