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NEWS SCAN: H5N1 efforts in Egypt, H5N1 vaccine in Indonesia, non-drug flu interventions, Gates' Global Fund donation

 

NEWS SCAN: New NBSB members, lessons from measles outbreak, poor-quality malaria drugs

Jan 19, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: H5N1 death, filovirus vaccine contract, cheap anti-malarial production, Taliban clears polio vaccination

Jan 18, 2012

 

Researchers air new theories about 1918 flu mortality

(CIDRAP News) – Experts who have studied the 1918 pandemic have long puzzled over why the mortality rate in young adults was so high, a feature that might be explained by pathologic immune responses related to previous flu exposure, according to a new theory from a research team.

Lisa Schnirring
 

NEWS SCAN: Ebola drug testing, dengue in Florida, detecting novel H3N2 in Europe, global malaria progress

 

NEWS SCAN: Flu vaccine and sickle cell, malaria in early pregnancy, MMR vaccine reactions, contact precautions and dementia

Dec 13, 2011

 

NEWS SCAN: Irradiating hamburger, nuts; antibodies to 2 avian flu strains; flu vaccine receipt vs risk; malaria hearing

Dec 6, 2011

 

Mapping studies show scope of P vivax malaria burden

(CIDRAP News) – Though global rates of the most deadly form of malaria are declining in Africa, the parasite's less deadly but more difficult-to-treat cousin, Plasmodium vivax, has a firm foothold in many parts of South Asia and Latin America, according to new mapping studies.

Lisa Schnirring
 

Study: Malaria vaccine halves cases in young kids

(CIDRAP News) – In a closely watched trial of the world's first malaria vaccine in thousands of African children, researchers today reported that in the latest phase of testing, the vaccine prevented about half of malaria infections in young children.

Lisa Schnirring
 

NEWS SCAN: Listeriosis miscarriage, H1N1 vaccine narcolepsy compensation, H5N1 in live-bird markets, spraying for malaria, FMD vaccine grant

Oct 6, 2011

 

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