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A flu vaccine that lasts

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) The costly, time-consuming process of making, distributing and administering millions of seasonal flu vaccines would become obsolete if researchers could design a vaccine that confers decades-long protection from any flu virus strain. Making such a universal influenza vaccine is feasible but licensing it may require innovation on several  Read More »

Bacteria seek to topple the egg as top flu vaccine tool

(University of Rochester Medical Center) Only the fragile chicken egg stands between Americans and a flu pandemic that would claim tens of thousands more lives than are usually lost to the flu each year. Now scientists have taken an important step toward ending the dominance of the oval, showing that an experimental flu vaccine grown  Read More »

E. coli Outbreak in Connecticut Caused By Raw Milk Consumption

(Infectious Diseases Society of America) In a recent study in Clinical Infectious Diseases, investigators describe a 2008 E. coli outbreak associated with consuming raw milk from the same farm, despite the farm’s adherence to regulatory standards.

New prion discovery reveals drug target for mad cow disease and related illnesses

(Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) The joy of a juicy hamburger could make a comeback thanks a new discovery by scientists from the University of Kentucky. In a new research report in the December 2010 print issue of the FASEB Journal, scientists found that a protein our body uses to break up blood  Read More »

Security, Health Officials Said to Collaborate Now More Than Ever Before

WASHINGTON — Two international measures designed to boost each country’s preparedness against manmade or natural disease outbreaks have also succeeded in bringing law enforcement and public health officials closer together to combat such threats, a panel of experts said last week (see GSN, Oct. 8). (Nov. 29) – Two U.S. diplomats, left, attend a Biological  Read More »

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