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How viruses use ‘fake’ proteins to hide in our cells

Some viruses can hide in our bodies for decades. They make ‘fake’ human proteins that trick our immune cells into thinking ‘everything is awesome’, there’s nothing to see here. Now researchers at the Imaging Centre of...

11 July, 2014

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Researchers develop experimental treatment for deadly Nipah virus

Researchers are a step closer to developing a treatment for the deadly Nipah virus, a disease transmitted by fruit bats that has a high mortality rate. The disease is most common in Asia and South Asia. Nipah virus...

1 July, 2014

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Study points out areas at risk for H7N9 virus

The H7N9 bird flu virus, which has caused severe illness and deaths in China, may inhabit only a fraction of its potential range and could possibly spread to India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines...

1 July, 2014

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Guinea frets as Ebola virus spreads

A second spike in Ebola virus cases has panicked residents and health officials in Guinea, who fear a west African outbreak of the killer disease may now be out of control. “Ebola cases are worrying. We do not...

27 June, 2014

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Chikungunya virus spreads through Caribbean to Cuba

Health authorities in Cuba have confirmed six cases of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus on the island. Cuba is the latest Caribbean nation to confirm cases of the virus, which resembles dengue fever and can cause...

27 June, 2014

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Study identifies potential for pandemic flu viruses

Circulating avian influenza viruses were recently shown to have genetic similarities to the pandemic Spanish flu virus of 1918, which resulted in an estimated 40 million deaths. A team of researchers led by the...

20 June, 2014

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Antibiotics Niet: Soviet use of viruses to cure being considered in U.S.

Antibiotics were “niet” during the Soviet era and, as an alternative, doctors used viruses to cure infections, and this idea is now being considered in the U.S. Overuse of these drugs has produced bacterial resistance...

16 June, 2014

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UNAIDS calls for increase in efforts to find HIV vaccine

The Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) called on May 18, HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, for an increase in global efforts to find an effective HIV vaccine and to accelerate progress towards ending the AIDS...

2 June, 2014

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Hepatitis B infant immunization protects through adolescent years

A seroprotective response to a challenge dose of hepatitis B vaccine was seen in more than 90% of study participants who received the vaccine an infant, according to recent study findings published in Pediatrics. Amy B...

2 June, 2014

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Mosquito-borne chikungunya virus spreads in Caribbean

Seven deaths have been associated with the virus, but those people likely suffered from other health problems. A painful mosquito-borne virus spreading quickly through the Caribbean is causing alarm in Haiti and...

2 June, 2014

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