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‘Defective’ virus surprisingly plays major role in spread of disease

Defective viruses, thought for decades to be essentially garbage unrelated to the transmission of normal viruses, now appear able to play an important role in the spread of disease, new research by UCLA life scientists...

1 March, 2013

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Drug halts flu virus spread

In an effort to combat drug-resistant flu virus strains, researchers have developed a new class of drug that prevents the virus from spreading between cells. When the flu virus infects a cell, it binds to the cell and...

1 March, 2013

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Scientists develop new drug effective against drug-resistant influenza

Scientists writing in the journal Science say they have found a new class of influenza drug, effective against drug-resistant strains of the flu virus. University of British Columbia (UBC) researchers published details...

1 March, 2013

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New flu vaccine? Drug shuts down resistant strains of influenza virus

Researchers show that DFSAs, a new class of influenza drug, can inactivate drug-resistant strains of the flu virus by shutting down a key enzyme. Researchers from the University of British Columbia led a study that was...

26 February, 2013

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Virus found in 2001 hospitalizes kids at same rate as flu

A respiratory virus that was unknown to doctors until 2001, and has no treatment, causes the same severity of illness in young children as the flu, according to the largest study to estimate the infection’s U.S...

26 February, 2013

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Euro studies show flu vaccine working best against type B

New European studies, reported in Eurosurveillance, suggest that this year’s influenza vaccine is providing good protection against influenza B viruses but only moderate protection against type A—findings more or...

16 February, 2013

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WHO makes no change to risk assessment for novel coronavirus

The recent infection of a patient in England with a SARS-like virus did not change the World Health Organization’s risk assessment of the novel coronavirus. The WHO said that the new case, however, does indicate that...

15 February, 2013

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Latest trial of a virus engineered to kill cancer shows promise

For roughly 20 years, scientists have been working to engineer a virus that will attack cancer. The basic idea is sound, and every few years there have been some promising-looking results, with tumors shrinking...

15 February, 2013

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U.S. health officials find potentially vaccine-resistant whooping cough

Researchers have discovered the first cases of whooping cough in the U.S. caused by a germ that may be resistant to the vaccine, according to a recent report in the New England Journal of Medicine. Scientists from the U...

15 February, 2013

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New SARS-like virus shows person-to-person transmission

A third patient in Britain has contracted a new SARS-like virus, becoming the second confirmed British case in a week and showing the deadly infection is being spread from person to person, health officials said on...

14 February, 2013

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