As this year’s Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria is finally ebbing, the total tally came to more than 600 infected
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How Nipah virus spreads from person to person: Lessons from 14 years of investigations
The deadly Nipah virus, which is carried by bats and occasionally infects people, is more likely to be transmitted from
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Zika vaccines should induce responses by CD4+ T cells
Immune cells called CD4+ T cells could be important mediators of protection against the Zika virus, according to a study
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Experimental antibody ‘cocktail’ protects animals from three deadly Ebola viruses
Scientists from academia, industry, and government have developed a combination of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) that protected animals from all three
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Scientists unveil promising new HIV vaccine strategy
A new candidate HIV vaccine from Scripps Research surmounts technical hurdles that stymied previous vaccine efforts, and stimulates a powerful
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Durable immune response to 3 experimental Ebola vaccines: Broad vaccine implications
In the midst of an increasingly volatile Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a new study presented today
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Genomic study of 412 anthrax strains provides new virulence clues
By analyzing genomic sequences from more than 400 strains of the bacterium that causes anthrax, researchers have provided the first
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Scientists discover biomarker for flu susceptibility
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found a way to predict whether someone exposed to the flu
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How to slow down Ebola: Virologists use ‘genetic trees’ to evaluate intervention strategies
Between 2013 and 2016, West Africa suffered the most severe outbreak of Ebola ever recorded. In Guinea, Sierra Leone and
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Target for chikungunya treatment
Scientists have identified a molecule found on human cells and some animal cells that could be a useful target for
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