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Although President Donald Trump’s previous skepticism on the flu vaccine was certainly not helpful in terms of encouraging individuals to be vaccinated, research indicates that celebrity commentary on a topic makes it more likely that...

Kenneth Wilson of the Univ of Lancaster has recently written a blog post on the plagues of African and “Fall” armyworms (aka caterpillars, larvae of moth species in the genus Spodoptera) that are currently...

Brazzaville, 14 February 2017 – The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) declared the end of the yellow fever outbreak in that country today following a similar announcement in Angola on 23 December 2016, bringing...

CT scanning allows scientists to observe and “dissect” fossils digitally using computer software – and to uncover secrets that are hundreds of millions of years old. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Technology...

Special Issue on Adeno-Associated Viral (AAV) Vectors Production, Purification, and Beyond: Part 1 See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Special Issue on Adeno-Associated Viral (AAV) Vectors Production, Purification, and Beyond: Part 1 Source:...

Results  In Africa, HPV16 accounted for 13% HPV-positive WHIV with normal cytology, but this proportion increased through ASCUS/LSIL/CIN1/CIN2 (18–25%), up to 41–47% for CIN3/ICC. Only HPV16, 18 and 45 accounted for a greater proportion...

The mammalian immune system has evolved over many millennia to be best equipped to protect the host from pathogen infection. In many cases, host and pathogen have coevolved, each acquiring sophisticated ways of inducing...

Oral administration of a cocktail of three viruses, all of which specifically kill cholera bacteria, prevents infection and cholera-like symptoms in animal model experiments, report scientists from Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) and...

Data visualization is a common way to represent tabular data in an easier to parse format. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to make effective data visualizations in Python.See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses...

Western corn rootworm (WCR), Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), is the worst insect pest of maize in North America and is invasive in Europe (1). Management of WCR in the United States depends primarily...