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Briefing: ‘New Report — US Budget Cuts Jeopardize Recent Scientific Gains in Global Health’

(Burness Communications) A new report warns that potential cuts to US global health and research programs that battle diseases like AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria could threaten countless lives and put at risk the ripening fruits of past investments in innovations crucial to fighting these diseases. The report will be released at a Capitol Hill briefing Read More »

February 19, 2013
| Filed under Research
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Using transportation data to predict pandemics

(EurekAlert) In a world of increasing global connections, predicting the spread of infectious diseases is more complicated than ever. Pandemics no longer follow the patterns they did centuries ago, when diseases swept through populations town by town; instead, they spread quickly and seemingly at random, spurred by the interactions of 3 billion air travelers per Read More »

February 18, 2013
| Filed under International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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UK Synchrotron Facility Facilitates Virus Analysis at Atomic and Molecular Level

(AzoNano) The UK’s national synchrotron facility, Diamond Light Source, is now the first and only place in Europe where pathogens requiring Containment Level 3 – including serious viruses such as those responsible for AIDS, Hepatitis and some types of flu – can be analysed at atomic and molecular level using synchrotron light.

February 18, 2013
| Filed under Europe and Research
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Flu researcher whose findings met US biosecurity review to speak at UW – UW Today

UW TodayFlu researcher whose findings met US biosecurity review to speak at UWUW TodayInfluenza virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka, whose research findings met with an extensive review by the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity last year, and generated continuing public debate on publishing infectious agent study results, will …

February 15, 2013
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Cure in sight for kissing bug’s bite

(EurekAlert) Chagas disease, a deadly tropical infection caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi and transmitted by biting insects called “kissing bugs,” has begun to spread around the world, including the U.S. Yet current treatment is toxic and limited to the acute stage. In The Journal of Infectious Diseases (JID), Galina Lepesheva, Ph.D., and her Read More »