News tagged with virus infection
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Inner city infants have different patterns of viral respiratory illness than infants in the suburbs
Children living in low-income urban areas appear especially prone to developing asthma, possibly related to infections they acquire early in life. In a new study in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, available online, resear ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 26, 2012 |
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Canadian hospitalized with new swine flu
A Canadian man has been hospitalized in southwestern Ontario with a new variant of the swine flu virus that caused a 2009 pandemic, a public health official announced Tuesday.
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Sep 25, 2012 |
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Saudi downplays impact of mystery virus on Hajj
Saudi health authorities downplayed Tuesday the impact of a possible outbreak of a virus from the family of deadly SARS on its forthcoming Hajj pilgrimage, stressing that the cases remain rare.
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Sep 25, 2012 |
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Qatari with mystery virus still in critical condition: WHO
A Qatari man suffering from a new respiratory virus from the same family as the deadly SARS remains in critical condition, the World Health Organisation said Tuesday. ...
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Sep 25, 2012 |
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Scientists reveal how deadly Marburg virus silences immune system
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have determined the structure of a critical protein from the Marburg virus, a close cousin of Ebola virus. These viruses cause similar diseases and are some of ...
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Sep 13, 2012 |
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West Nile virus deaths up 35 pct in US
Deaths linked to the West Nile virus jumped 35 percent in the United States over the past week, amid one of the worst US outbreaks of the mosquito-borne disease, officials said Wednesday.
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Sep 13, 2012 |
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Scientists develop technique to decipher the dormant AIDS virus concealed in cells
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have gotten us one step closer to understanding and overcoming one of the least-understood mechanisms of HIV infection—by devising a method to precisely track the life cycle of individual ...
HIV & AIDS
Sep 11, 2012 |
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New strep throat guidelines tackle antibiotic resistance
(HealthDay)—Doctors need to accurately diagnose and treat strep throat in order to avoid inappropriate use of antibiotics that can lead to drug-resistant bacteria, according to updated guidelines from the ...
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Sep 10, 2012 |
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RV144 vaccine efficacy increased against certain HIV viruses
Scientists used genetic sequencing to discover new evidence that the first vaccine shown to prevent HIV infection in people also affected the viruses in those who did become infected. Viruses with two genetic "footprints" ...
HIV & AIDS
Sep 10, 2012 |
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Antibody prevents hepatitis C in animal model
A monoclonal antibody developed by MassBiologics of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) and tested in an animal model at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, prevents infection by the hepatitis C virus ...
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Aug 30, 2012 |
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West Nile's 'super spreader'—the American robin?
The 2012 outbreak of West Nile virus, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, promises to be the largest since the disease was first detected in the United States 13 years ago.
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Aug 24, 2012 |
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Field guide to the Epstein-Barr virus charts viral paths toward cancer
Researchers from The Wistar Institute and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) have teamed to publish the first annotated atlas of the Epstein-Barr virus genome, creating the most comprehensive ...
Medical research
Aug 23, 2012 |
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Prevalence of TB, hepatitis C, HIV high among homeless
(HealthDay) -- The global prevalence of tuberculosis, hepatitis C virus infection, and HIV is high among homeless people, although significant heterogeneity is seen in prevalence estimates, according to a ...
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Aug 20, 2012 |
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Researchers show long-term consequences of chronic virus infection
The cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a member of the herpesvirus family. Although most people carry CMV for life, it hardly ever makes them sick. Researchers from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and from ...
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Aug 16, 2012 |
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Molecular and protein markers discovered for liver transplant failure from hepatitis C
Researchers have discovered molecular and protein signatures that predict rapid onset of liver damage in hepatitis C patients following a liver transplant. The markers appeared soon after transplant and well before clinical ...
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Aug 16, 2012 |
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