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Preventing the next epidemic in Madagascar
Jan 05, 2018 (SPX)
Bonds uses November 2017's epidemic of bubonic and pneumonic plague as a recent example to pinpoint areas of improvement in Madagascar's public health system. W...
Cholera hotspots found at Uganda's borders and lakes
Jan 02, 2018 (SPX)
Cholera, caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio cholerae O1 or O139, is estimated to infect up to 4 million people a year w...
Genetic survey of rats could help New York curb the rodent population
Dec 11, 2017 (UPI)
Matthew Combs, a graduate student at Fordham University, has assembled the most comprehensive genomic map yet of New York City's chief rodent. He hopes his work...
One in two Africans don't know HIV status: expert
Dec 07, 2017 (AFP)
"Testing remains insufficient in west Africa and central Africa," public health demographer Joseph Larmarange told AFP in an interview at an AIDS prevention con...
Army-developed Zika vaccine induces strong immune response in three phase 1 studies
Dec 07, 2017 (SPX)
Each of the three studies included in the paper was designed to address a unique question about background immunity, vaccine dose or vaccination schedule. A fou...
Campaigners incensed at failings in Africa AIDS war
Dec 06, 2017 (AFP)
A six-day conference in Africa has thrown a stark light on the problems in a region whose two dozen nations extend from Mauritania in the north to Gabon in the ...
UN warns of drug-resistant germ risk brewing in nature
Dec 05, 2017 (AFP)
If this continues, people will be at an ever-higher risk of contracting diseases which are incurable by existing antibiotics from swimming in the sea or other s...
World AIDS chief warns of risk for Africa's child brides
Dec 04, 2017 (AFP)
A sharp rise of people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has now slowed, "but now is not the time to drop our guard," Michel Sidibe, executive ...
Men at higher risk of dying of AIDS than women: UNAIDS
Dec 01, 2017 (AFP)
Around the world, fewer than half of HIV-positive men are getting treatment, compared to 60 percent of women, according to a UNAIDS report released on World AID...
Mosquitoes transmit dengue virus more frequently when temperatures rise
Dec 01, 2017 (UPI)
The findings suggest health officials should consider weather forecasts when working to prevent and respond to outbreaks of the mosquito-borne disease. "If the ...
Nigeria's flourishing 'miracle cure' business for HIV/AIDS
Nov 30, 2017 (AFP)
Infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), she felt the ad was her only hope -- so against her better judgement, she clicked on the link. The 30-year...
PrEP: A shield against AIDS
Nov 30, 2017 (AFP)
Taking a drug normally prescribed to treat AIDS as a way to shield against the deadly disease -- known as PrEP -- is catching on, and proponents hope that it wi...
HIV denial movement fuels Russian epidemic
Nov 30, 2017 (AFP)
While AIDS-related deaths and new HIV infections are falling across the globe, in Eastern Europe and Central Asia statistics grow more alarming by the year. Acc...
Plague first came to Europe during the Stone Age
Nov 22, 2017 (UPI)
According to analysis by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, the bacteria was carried to Central Europe by wave migrations...
Heavy rainfall precedes outbreaks of mosquito-borne viruses
Nov 22, 2017 (UPI)
The latest analysis -- detailed in the journal PLOS ONE -- also showed Chikungunya remains prominent when the two viruses are circulating together, as Chikungun...
Kill switches for engineered microbes gone rogue
Nov 20, 2017 (SPX)
Past efforts at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led by Core Faculty members Pamela Silver and James Collins have created "kill sw...
Making mosquitoes self-destruct
Nov 15, 2017 (SPX)
As proof of concept, the researchers used the system to disrupt cuticle, wing, and eye development, producing completely yellow, three-eyed and wingless mosquit...
Last season's flu shot protected only 1 in 5 people
Nov 06, 2017 (AFP)
The reason just 20 to 30 percent of people were protected by the 2016-2017 flu shot was a mutation in the H3N2 strain of the virus, which did not show up in the...
Tracking mosquitoes with your cellphone
Nov 03, 2017 (SPX)
The Prakash Lab at Stanford, led by Manu Prakash, assistant professor of bioengineering, is looking for citizen scientists to contribute to Abuzz, a mosquito mo...
The end of pneumonia? New vaccine offers hope
Oct 23, 2017 (SPX)
Better access to antibiotics and improved nutrition account for part of the decline. But scientists say it's mostly due to vaccines introduced in the early 2000...
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