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Pakistan’s Strategies for Combating the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic was a global outbreak of the coronavirus, a highly infectious and often lethal disease. First identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, the virus quickly spread to countries around the world and was declared a Public Health...

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Portable device provides rapid, accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis, other bacterial infections

A handheld diagnostic device that Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators first developed to diagnose cancer has been adapted to rapidly diagnose tuberculosis (TB) and other important infectious bacteria. Two papers appearing in the...

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Toward a virus-free polio vaccine

Researchers are developing polio vaccines based on the viral capsid alone. When produced in recombinant systems, these could eliminate the need to propagate live poliovirus for vaccine production. Polio is nearly eradicated. But vaccine campaigns...

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Pakistan’s Strategies for Combating the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Portable device provides rapid, accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis, other bacterial infections

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Toward a virus-free polio vaccine

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Combination vaccines are coming for respiratory diseases

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Individual COVID-19 infections include multiple variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, research shows

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University found wide genetic variation in SARS-CoV-2 viruses among 360 patients whose viral infections were genetically sequenced, showing that all individual infections include...

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China-based researchers develop rapid testing methods for monkeypox virus

Some China-based researchers have recently developed three rapid testing methods for monkeypox virus (MPXV) that can provide the result in 20 to 30 minutes and are significantly faster than the traditional quantitative...

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Early action needed to prevent treatment failure, Nigerian research on detectable virus levels shows

National HIV treatment programmes should not wait until people with HIV have viral loads above 1000 copies/ml to provide enhanced adherence counselling, Nigerian researchers report in the journal Lancet Global...

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Tuberculosis researchers find link between vaccine efficacy, environmental pathogens

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease of the lungs that’s been with humanity for centuries and affects a quarter of the world’s population. The stubborn disease killed over a million and a half people in 2021, mostly in...

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How viruses use ‘fake’ proteins to hide in our cells

Some viruses can hide in our bodies for decades. They make ‘fake’ human proteins that trick our immune cells into thinking ‘everything is awesome’, there’s nothing to see here. Now researchers at the Imaging Centre of...

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Vaccine confidence falls as belief in health misinformation grows

Americans have less confidence in vaccines to address a variety of illnesses than they did just a year or two ago, and more people accept misinformation about vaccines and Covid-19, according to the latest health survey...

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Three doses of COVID-19 vaccine leads to catch-up antibody responses among the particularly vulnerable

Even vulnerable people, who are at risk of severe COVID-19, achieved good antibody levels after three doses of the mRNA vaccine. This is shown by a study from the University of Gothenburg on patients having undergone a...

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