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Chemical engineers have figured out how to make vaccines faster
Nov 25, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at Brigham Young University have devised a system to speed up the process of making life-saving vaccines for new viruses. Their concept is to create...
Doubling numbers on HIV drugs could 'break' epidemic: UN
Nov 24, 2015 (AFP)
The UN on Tuesday urged countries to "break the AIDS epidemic" by doubling the number of people receiving HIV treatment within the next five years. In a new rep...
Drug shields infants from HIV in breastmilk: study
Nov 18, 2015 (AFP)
Giving anti-AIDS drugs directly to infants breastfed by their HIV-positive mothers significantly reduces their risk of contracting the killer virus, researchers...
Alcoholism drug may help design HIV cure: study
Nov 16, 2015 (AFP)
A treatment for alcoholism can reactivate dormant HIV, potentially allowing other drugs to spot and kill the virus hiding out in human immune cells, researchers...
Britain ends military support for Ebola fight in West Africa
Nov 13, 2015 (UPI)
British military involvement in the fight against the lethal Ebola outbreak in West Africa came to an end as the final eight military personnel returned home. B...
A giant fullerene system inhibits the infection by an artificial Ebola virus
Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)
Different studies have demonstrated that the ebola virus infection process starts when the virus reaches the cellular DC-SIGN receptor to infect the dendritic c...
Monkeys in Asia harbor virus from humans, other species
Nov 10, 2015 (SPX)
When it comes to spreading viruses, bats are thought to be among the worst. Now a new study of nearly 900 nonhuman primates in Bangladesh and Cambodia shows tha...
Over 230,000 vaccinated in Iraq anti-cholera campaign
Nov 09, 2015 (AFP)
More than 230,000 people received a first dose of cholera vaccine in a massive campaign to combat an outbreak of the disease in Iraq, the World Health Organisat...
What ever happened to West Nile virus
Nov 09, 2015 (SPX)
Many people remember the arrival of West Nile in North America in 1999, if only because the initial outbreak killed not just wild crows but also exotic birds in...
France to lift ban on gay men giving blood
Nov 04, 2015 (AFP)
France said Wednesday it will lift a ban on gay men giving blood, but only if they abstain from sex in the months beforehand -- an exclusion denounced as discri...
Iraq combats cholera with massive vaccination campaign
Nov 01, 2015 (AFP)
Iraq is carrying out a major vaccination campaign to combat a cholera outbreak that has infected more than 2,200 people, the health ministry said on Sunday. The...
Clinton archives reveal AIDS fund chief pushed out in 2012
Oct 31, 2015 (AFP)
A series of recently released emails by former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton contradict the official motive given for Michel Kazatchkine leaving his top...
Plague in humans 'twice as old' but didn't begin as flea-borne, ancient DNA reveals
Oct 26, 2015 (SPX)
New research using ancient DNA has revealed that plague has been endemic in human populations for more than twice as long as previously thought, and that the an...
Algae virus can jump to mammalian cells
Oct 23, 2015 (SPX)
New research led by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has provided the first direct evidence that an algae-infecting virus can invade and potentially replicate...
Malawi receives $300 million grant to fight AIDS
Oct 22, 2015 (AFP)
Malawi President Peter Mutharika said Thursday the country had received a grant of $332 million (292 million euros) to fight AIDS and other diseases, bringing m...
Iraq cholera cases grow, spread to Kurdish region
Oct 20, 2015 (AFP)
The number of cholera cases in Iraq has risen to more than 1,800 as the epidemic spread to the northern autonomous Kurdish region, health officials said Tuesday...
Antiviral compound offers full protection from Ebola in nonhuman primates
Oct 13, 2015 (SPX)
Rhesus monkeys were completely protected from the deadly Ebola virus when treated three days after infection with a compound that blocks the virus's ability to ...
Cholera cases in Iraq top 1,200: ministry
Oct 07, 2015 (AFP)
The number of confirmed cases of cholera in Iraq has risen to 1,201, the health ministry said Wednesday of an outbreak that started along the Euphrates river la...
Trio win Nobel Medicine Prize for parasite therapies
Oct 05, 2015 (AFP)
A trio of scientists earned the 2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for unlocking revolutionary treatments for malaria and roundworm, helping to roll back t...
Bacteria in ancient flea may be ancestor of the Black Death
Oct 01, 2015 (SPX)
About 20 million years ago a single flea became entombed in amber with tiny bacteria attached to it, providing what researchers believe may be the oldest eviden...
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