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If we are to advance vaccination, physicians must leave the safety of the exam room and meet patients where their opinions are being created. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News Vaccine hesitancy: It's...

New Products Help Prevent HIV, But Young Women in South Africa Aren’t Taking to Them – A vaginal ring secretes HIV… https://t.co/2VcDXWfgvH See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News New Products Help Prevent HIV,...

Monsoon is a relief had it been only about the rains. But monsoon also means infectious diseases will be on the rise. Most common of them being Flu/CommoEd Rybicki’s insight:A reminder that for some...

TOGO – Two outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza have been found in Togo, on semi-modern farms without biosecurity measures, according to reports to the World Organisation of Animal Health (OIE). See it on...

Thirty years ago, India discovered the dreaded HIV virus had reached its shores when blood samples from six sex workers tested positive. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News The woman who discovered India's...

I was prompted to this post by the breathless and much-hyped response to the discovery – the repeated discovery should I say; there was an earlier one that gets glossed over – of a multicomponent...

Mosquitoes tolerate long-lasting viral infections, which makes them efficient vectors for human viral diseases. Ed Rybicki’s insight:Now this is cool, because it has relevance to a blog post I just put up – which...

AdisInsight profiles relating to the Zika virus are now available to access for free, as part of Springer Nature’s pledge to share data that can Ed Rybicki’s insight: Don’t often see the words “free”,...

Situation “continues to be serious and requires sustained control measures,” though. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News WHO: African yellow fever not yet a public health emergency Source: Virology News

bioRxiv – the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution See it on Scoop.it, via Virology and Bioinformatics from Virology.ca Deep mutational scanning identifies sites in...