California researchers say they have determined that a mosquito neuron that detects human breath also detects human skin odors, and they report the discovery of two compounds that may reduce the insects' ability to zero in on humans.
Testing has confirmed that a fourth undergraduate student has been infected in a meningococcal disease outbreak involving the less common serogroup B at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), according to a Dec 2 statement from the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department (SBCPHD). All four students were sickened within 3 weeks in November.
The United States has committed up to $5 billion for global efforts to fight AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria over the next 3 years, representing a $1 billion increase over the last 3-year pledge, said a PR Newswire release yesterday.
WHO-led malaria vaccine development group announces new goals and a wish list for future vaccines.
Group discusses the narrow window now open for tackling artemisinin resistance.
Growth in international travel and precaution lapses may contribute to a 40-year high in imported malaria cases.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today confirmed China's latest H7N9 influenza case, in a 67-year-old farmer from Zhejiang province, and said the man is in critical condition.
The WHO said the patient, whose case was reported by the media yesterday, had contact with poultry. He got sick on Oct 16, was admitted to local hospital 2 days later, and was transferred to another hospital on Oct 21 as his condition worsened.
At a malaria conference in South Africa today, researchers reported more promising findings for a vaccine that is furthest along in development, and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) officials said they now intend to submit a regulatory application for it to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in 2014, according to a company press release.
A two-drug combination may be effective against Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), according to the results of a cell-culture study published today in the Journal of Infection.
Ten new polio cases have been confirmed in Pakistan's North Waziristan region, bringing to 25 the number of cases reported this year, Pakistan Today reported today.
