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Potential Chagas vaccine candidate shows unprecedented efficacy

(ScienceDaily) Scientists are getting closer to a Chagas disease vaccine, something many believed impossible only 10 years ago. Research from the Sealy Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has resulted in a safe vaccine candidate that is simple to produce and shows a greater than 90 percent protection Read More »

March 27, 2013
| Filed under North America and Countermeasures
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Researchers developing antiviral drug to combat contagious norovirus

(EurekAlert) A Kansas State University-led team is researching ways to stop the spread of norovirus, a contagious stomach illness that infects one in 15 Americans each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Kyeong-Ok Chang, associate professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology, is leading researchers as they develop an antiviral drug for Read More »

March 26, 2013
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Cleverly designed vaccine blocks H5 avian influenza in animal models

(ScienceDaily) Until now most experimental vaccines against the highly lethal H5N1 avian influenza virus have lacked effectiveness. But a new vaccine has proven highly effective against the virus when tested in both mice and ferrets. It is also effective against the H9 subtype of avian influenza. The research is published online ahead of print in Read More »

March 26, 2013
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Research
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US Bioethicists recommend more tests before child anthrax vaccine trials

(Nature) Bioethicists proposed limits today on the types of clinical trials of anthrax vaccine and other drugs and vaccines aimed at bioterror agents that can be conducted in children. The recommendation came in a report from the US President’s Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. US Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius Read More »

March 20, 2013
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African immunization systems fall short, African experts say

(EurekAlert) In Africa, issues of vaccine supply, financing, and sustainability require urgent attention if the Millennium Development Goals are to be achieved, according to African experts writing in this week’s PLOS Medicine. Shingai Machingaidze, Charles Wiysonge, and Gregory Hussey from the University of Cape Town in South Africa commend African countries for their progress in Read More »