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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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Zika virus may be transmitted through sex

A virologist at the Bernhard-Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany, has suggested that Zika virus infection is the only vector-borne disease that may be transmitted by sexual intercourse. The first...

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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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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Lung cells that battle a cold virus identified by scientists

Scientists have identified a type of immune cell in the lungs of humans that may help fight respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The virus is one of the main causes of childhood hospitalisation, severe lung infection in...

24 December, 2015

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HIV antibody infusion safely suppresses virus in infected people

A single infusion of a powerful antibody called VRC01 can suppress the level of HIV in the blood of infected people who are not taking antiretroviral therapy (ART), scientists at the National Institutes of Health report...

24 December, 2015

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MERS virus: Drying out the reservoir

The recently discovered coronavirus now referred to as MERS (for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) causes an infectious respiratory disease in humans, which can be fatal. The virus is thought to be transmitted to humans...

18 December, 2015

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Scientists identify effective and novel mechanisms to block chikungunya virus

Scientists looking at the antiviral mechanisms of two previously identified human monoclonal antibodies have found they potently inhibit chikungunya virus (CHIKV) at multiple stages of infection. Funded by grants from...

11 December, 2015

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Mosquito-borne chikungunya virus causes severe brain inflammation

The mosquito-borne virus chikungunya may lead to severe brain infection and even death in infants and people over 65, according to findings published in Neurology. Chikungunya is not a new virus, but before 2004 it was...

11 December, 2015

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Zika virus spreads to more countries

In quickly evolving developments, more countries in the Americas reported Zika virus cases, as Brazil—one of the hardest hit countries—reported more microcephaly cases, which health officials suspect might be related to...

3 December, 2015

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