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NEWS SCAN: H5N1 deaths in Cambodia, H5N1 poultry outbreaks, flu vaccine for seniors, universal flu vaccine trial, food safety funding, dengue vaccines

Feb 23, 2011

 

NEWS SCAN: H1N1 antiviral resistance, Fluvax and fevers, doctors' vaccine views, pressure-treated burgers, Sanofi joins dengue initiative

Feb 22, 2011

 

NEWS SCAN: Dengue vaccine progress; cholera vaccine study; polio in Myanmar; TB linked to substance abuse, elephants

Feb 17, 2011

 

NEWS SCAN: Bacteria on docs' coats; foot-and-mouth outbreak; dengue, pneumococcal vaccine efforts

 

Study: Dengue costs Americas $2.1 billion per year

(CIDRAP News) – Researchers estimate that more than 5.6 million dengue virus infections occur in the Americas annually, costing an average of $2.1 billion, according to a study published yesterday in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Robert Roos
 

NEWS SCAN: Polio funding, Haiti's paralysis cases, dengue vaccine collaboration, FMD alert in Asia, diseases from pets

Jan 27, 2011

 

NEWS SCAN: Ivory Coast yellow fever outbreak, dengue vaccine agreement

 

NEWS SCAN: Egypt's H5N1 toll, South Korea outbreaks, infected mosquitoes against dengue, cholera in Haiti, flu vaccine in kids, flu in Ireland

 

Study blames faulty immune response for severe H1N1 in adults

(CIDRAP News) – A team of US and Argentine researchers has proposed an unusual biological mechanism to explain severe pandemic H1N1 influenza cases in nonelderly adults, involving antibodies that react with but fail to stop the virus.

Robert Roos
 

NEWS SCAN: Indonesian H5N1 case, H5N1 in birds, dengue immunology, parasite from crayfish, pertussis rise in Kentucky

Dec 9, 2010

 

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