What It Really Means to ‘Give Infectious Disease a Break’
That era might now be over. In recent years, the U.S. had already begun to neglect its public-health infrastructure, ...
The Scientist5d
Viruses That Mimic Human Proteins May Be More Common than Previously Thought
A screen of human-infecting viruses identified extensive examples of viral proteins that resembled human sequences, which ...
Medscape11h
Avian Influenza: What Infectious Disease Physicians Need to Know
Recent viral mutations have shown avian influenza’s adaptability to mammalian hosts, prompting infectious disease, animal ...
The Bird Flu Virus Is Mutating Fast – And Scientists Say Our Vaccines May Not Be Enough
H5N1 influenza is evolving rapidly, weakening the effectiveness of existing antibodies and increasing its potential threat to ...
How the pandemic changed the world of disease control for worse — and for better
Five years after the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, there has been progress — and backsliding in the ...
NIH Launches Human Trials for Groundbreaking Lassa Fever Vaccine
NIH has launched a human trial for LASSARAB, a dual-purpose vaccine targeting Lassa fever and rabies. Early animal studies ...
New thesis investigates the role of memory T cells in viral infections and their importance for long-term immunity
Olga Rivera Ballesteros from the Center for Infectious Medicine (CIM) at the Department of Medicine, Huddinge (MedH) is ...
H5N1 influenza viral lineages beginning to evade human immunological defenses, research finds
New computational modeling of avian influenza variants' immunoprotein interactions—developed by a research team at the ...
WebMD11d
The Other Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Worrying Doctors Now
As the measles outbreak in the U.S. spreads, experts fear that other preventable diseases, including polio, rubella, and mumps, could return. Here’s what you can do to stay safe.
CBS News10d
How disease detectives are hunting for viruses at major U.S. airports
"Early warning could mean the difference between life and millions of deaths," said Admiral Brett Giroir, President Trump's COVID testing czar at the height of the pandemic in 2020 and now an ...
Inquirer on MSN7d
Five young volunteers exposed to Covid-19 virus in Singapore’s first human challenge trial
Five young volunteers here have been deliberately exposed to the Covid-19 virus in the country's first human challenge study, ...
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Eastern equine encephalitis virus killed horse in county, no human cases reported
A mosquito-borne viral disease exceedingly rare in people killed a horse in Lackawanna County, though no human cases have ...