Tagged: flu

WINDHOEK — The Ministry of Health and Social Services has urged Namibians to take the necessary precautions to avoid getting infected with swine flu as cases of the virus continue to rise. See it...

The national scheme is to be extended to cover 12 to 13-year-old boys, the Government said. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News HPV vaccine to be offered to boys in UK Source: Virology...

A Liberian woman recovered after tending to her dying brother, but infected her family a year later. Being pregnant may have reignited the virus in her. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News For...

Mesenchymal tumor subpopulations secrete pro-tumorigenic cytokines and promote treatment resistance1-4. This phenomenon has been implicated in chemorefractory small cell lung cancer and resistance to targeted therapies5-8, but remains incompletely defined. Here, we identify a...

Author summary Development of effective vaccines for diseases such as tuberculosis, brucellosis and others caused by intracellular pathogens has proved challenging, as data exist supporting both antibody and cellular immune effectors as mediators of...

An oxygen sample from a billion-year-old lake reveals what our planet used to be like, and may shed light on life on other planets, too. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News A billion-year-old...

Author summary CD81 is a cell membrane protein, which functions as entry factor for hepatitis C virus (HCV) and malaria sporozoites in the human liver. Currently, it remains enigmatic how CD81 guides the entry...

ABSTRACT Wild ducks and gulls are the major reservoirs for avian influenza A viruses (AIVs). The mechanisms that drive AIV evolution are complex at sites where various duck and gull species from multiple flyways...

The 1918 influenza pandemic was commonly referred to as ‘the Spanish flu’ but it did not originate in Spain…. See it on Scoop.it, via Virology News The pandemic begins abroad – The 1918 influenza...

The HIV epidemic is far from over and it’s not time to disengage, says International Aids Society President Linda-Gail Bekker. HIV remains a global challenge. Between 36.7 million and 38.8 million people live with...