Infectious Diseases News
June 15, 2024
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June 14, 2024 — The amount of infectious H5N1 influenza viruses in raw milk rapidly declined with heat treatment in laboratory research. However, small, detectable amounts of infectious virus remained in raw milk ...
May 24, 2024 — Researchers discovered that people who experienced symptomatic breakthrough infections develop T cells that are better at recognizing and targeting SARS-CoV-2, including the Omicron and Delta variants. The researchers describe this increased ...
May 30, 2024 — In a head-to-head comparison of masks worn by people with active COVID-19, the inexpensive 'duckbill' N95 came out on top, stopping 98% of COVID-19 particles in the breath of infected people from ...
June 10, 2024 — Why does Hepatitis E become chronic in some patients, and why do medications not work? To find out, an international research team led by scientists from Bochum observed a patient with chronic Hepatitis E infection over a year. Repeated sequencing ...
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June 10, 2024 — A discovery could speed up efforts to produce new antibiotics in the fight against antimicrobial ...
June 6, 2024 — Researchers provide the first insight into the mode of action of the lipopeptide serrawettin W2-FL10, derived from Serratia marcescens. This lipopeptide targets the cell membrane of S. aureus, ...
May 30, 2024 — New findings on long COVID reveal that COVID-19 patients who were hospitalized within the first 30 days after infection face a 29% higher risk of ...
May 30, 2024 — A new human monoclonal antibody moves a step closer to a universal antibody cocktail that works against all strains of ...
June 5, 2024 — An international research team has found almost a million potential sources of antibiotics in the natural ...
June 3, 2024 — Obeldesivir (GS-5245), a novel investigational small molecule oral antiviral, represents a new tool in the ongoing effort to prepare for future ...
May 31, 2024 — An international team has found a new RNA virus that they believe is hitching a ride with a common human parasite. The virus is associated with severe inflammation in humans infected with the ...
May 29, 2024 — An international team developed a new model, based on a case study of Nigeria, that may help public health officials accelerate the introduction of rubella vaccination in countries that have yet to ...
May 31, 2024 — Researchers have isolated human monoclonal antibodies against influenza B, a significant public health threat that disproportionately affects children, the elderly and other immunocompromised ...
May 30, 2024 — Using a combination of cutting-edge immunologic technologies, researchers have successfully stimulated animals' immune systems to induce rare ...
Earlier Headlines
June 7, 2024 — Paxlovid, effective in preventing severe COVID-19, didn't appear to help long-COVID patients in this single-center study. But further research may show benefits with different doses or for ...
June 7, 2024 — New research sheds light on how federal funding helped scientists understand the COVID-19 virus, develop new treatments and deploy lifesaving vaccines in record ...
June 4, 2024 — Researchers conducted a survey to study how mental health relates to methods people use to quit smoking, also known as smoking cessation aids. While the number of adults who smoke cigarettes has ...
May 29, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new antibiotic that reduced or eliminated drug-resistant bacterial infections in mouse models of acute pneumonia and sepsis while sparing healthy microbes in the mouse ...
May 29, 2024 — Bioengineers report that a foaming liquid worked better than a standard liquid formulation at transferring gene therapy components to cells in laboratory ...
May 29, 2024 — Review of research to-date suggests vaccination remains the most effective strategy for avian influenza prevention and control in humans, despite varying vaccine efficacy across ...
May 28, 2024 — Researchers have discovered that bank voles in southern Sweden (Sk ne) carry a virus that can cause hemorrhagic fever in humans. This finding was made more than 500 km south of the previously known ...
May 24, 2024 — Mice administered raw milk samples from dairy cows infected with H5N1 influenza experienced high virus levels in their respiratory organs and lower virus levels in other vital organs, according to ...
May 24, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new strain of vaccinia virus, which can replicate in tumor cells while maintaining increased immunogenicity. Specifically, it can to induce so-called immunogenic cell ...
May 23, 2024 — The Epstein-Barr virus can cause a spectrum of diseases, including a range of cancers. Emerging data now show that inhibition of a specific metabolic pathway in infected cells can diminish latent ...
May 23, 2024 — A rare condition surged among previously unaffected groups of people during the COVID-19 pandemic and led to the deaths of nine patients, researchers say. The condition is a type of autoimmune ...
May 23, 2024 — Researchers conducted a Phase III trial to test the 100-year-old Bacillus Calmette-Gu rin (BCG) vaccine in people with type 1 diabetes during the COVID-19 ...
May 21, 2024 — A new laboratory study suggests that human body lice are more efficient at transmitting Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, than previously thought, supporting the possibility that ...
May 21, 2024 — Currently available flu medications only target the virus after it has already established an infection, but what if a drug could prevent infection in the first place? Now, scientists have designed ...
May 20, 2024 — Two newly discovered mechanisms in bacteria have been identified that can contribute to the development of antibiotic resistance. Changing the number of copies of resistance genes in bacteria ...
May 17, 2024 — A study has found that repeat vaccination with updated versions of the COVID-19 vaccine promotes the development of antibodies that neutralize a wide range of variants of the virus that causes ...
May 17, 2024 — An HIV vaccine candidate triggered low levels of an elusive type of broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies among a small group of people enrolled in a 2019 clinical ...
May 15, 2024 — Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza was detected in dairy cattle for the first time in the United States in March, with nine states reporting outbreaks by May. While the method of transmission ...
May 15, 2024 — At present, there is no specific active substance against hepatitis E. As the disease kills 70,000 people every year, researchers are actively searching for one. A team may have found what ...
May 14, 2024 — Researchers have discovered the virus that causes COVID-19 can breach the protective blood-retinal-barrier with potential long-term consequences in the ...
Friday, June 7, 2024
- 15-Day Paxlovid Regimen Safe but Adds No Clear Long-COVID Benefit, Trial Finds
- How $4 Billion Funded the Unprecedented COVID-19 Pandemic Response
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
- New Antibiotic Kills Pathogenic Bacteria, Spares Healthy Gut Microbes
- Could a Medicated Foam Make Gene Therapies More Accessible?
- Bird Flu: Diverse Range of Vaccines Platforms 'crucial' For Enhancing Human Pandemic Preparedness
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Friday, May 24, 2024
- High H5N1 Influenza Levels Found in Mice Given Raw Milk from Infected Dairy Cows
- New Advances in Cancer Viral Immunotherapy
Thursday, May 23, 2024
- New Approach to Epstein-Barr Virus and Resulting Diseases
- Rare Health Condition Cases Surge During COVID-19 Pandemic
- Century-Old Vaccine Protects Type 1 Diabetics from Infectious Diseases
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
- Body Lice May Be Bigger Plague Spreaders Than Previously Thought
- Drug-Like Inhibitor Shows Promise in Preventing Flu
Monday, May 20, 2024
Friday, May 17, 2024
- Repeat COVID-19 Vaccinations Elicit Antibodies That Neutralize Variants, Other Viruses
- A Trial HIV Vaccine Triggered Elusive and Essential Antibodies in Humans
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
- H5N1 Virus from 2022 Mink Outbreak Capable of Inefficient Airborne Transmission
- An Active Agent Against Hepatitis E
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Monday, May 13, 2024
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Monday, May 6, 2024
Thursday, May 2, 2024
- Promising New Treatment Strategy for Deadly Flu-Related Brain Disorders
- Medical School Scientist Creates Therapy to Kill Hypervirulent Bacteria
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
- Therapy to Kill Hypervirulent Bacteria Developed
- New Strategy Could Lead to Universal, Long-Lasting Flu Shot
Monday, April 29, 2024
- Microarray Patches Safe and Effective for Vaccinating Children, Trial Suggests
- Kaposi Sarcoma Discovery Could Facilitate Drug Development
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Artificial Intelligence Can Develop Treatments to Prevent 'superbugs'
- Can Climate Change Accelerate Transmission of Malaria? Pioneering Research Sheds Light on Impacts of Temperature
- A Vaccine to Fight Antibiotic Resistance
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
- Optimal Timing Maximizes Paxlovid Benefits for Treating COVID-19
- Dengue Fever Infections Have Negative Impacts on Infant Health for Three Years
Monday, April 22, 2024
- New Technology Uncovers Mechanism Affecting Generation of New COVID Variants
- Rise Seen in Use of Antibiotics for Conditions They Can't Treat -- Including COVID-19
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Monday, April 15, 2024
- Vaccine Breakthrough Means No More Chasing Strains
- Specific Nasal Cells Protect Against COVID-19 in Children
- Antibiotics Aren't Effective for Most Lower Tract Respiratory Infections
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
- New Drug Prevents Flu-Related Inflammation and Lung Damage
- Scientists Identify Pro-Aging 'sugar Signature' In the Blood of People Living With HIV
- Study Flags Unexpected Cells in Lung as Suspected Source of Severe COVID
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Monday, April 1, 2024
- Researchers Develop More Broadly Protective Coronavirus Vaccine
- New Antibiotic Class Effective Against Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria
Thursday, March 28, 2024
- How the Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus Enters Our Cells
- New Method Developed to Isolate HIV Particles
- COVID-19 Antibody Discovery Could Explain Long COVID
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- New Testing Approach Improves Detection of Rare but Emerging Powassan Virus Spread by Deer Ticks
- Just Ask: Patients in the ER Are Willing to Get a Flu Shot
- Researchers a Step Closer to a Cure for HIV
- Silicon Spikes Take out 96% of Virus Particles
Monday, March 25, 2024
- Cancer Therapies Show Promise in Combating Tuberculosis
- Humans Pass More Viruses to Other Animals Than We Catch from Them
Friday, March 22, 2024
Thursday, March 21, 2024
- Research Finds a Direct Communication Path Between the Lungs and the Brain
- Research Offers Hope for Preventing Post-COVID 'brain Fog' By Targeting Brain's Blood Vessels
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
- Severe Lung Infection During COVID-19 Can Cause Damage to the Heart
- Experts Warn Climate Change Will Fuel Spread of Infectious Diseases
Monday, March 18, 2024
- Addressing Both Flu and COVID-19 Through a Single, Multitasking Injection
- Newborn Piglets Serve as a Model for Studying Influenza
Friday, March 15, 2024
Thursday, March 14, 2024
- Infections from These Bacteria Are on the Rise: New Blood Test Cuts Diagnosis Time from Months to Hours
- Age and Sex Associated With Patient's Likelihood of Antimicrobial Resistance
- New Bioengineered Protein Design Shows Promise in Fighting COVID-19
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
- Scientists Find Weak Points on Epstein-Barr Virus
- Vaccine Monitoring Crucial as SARS-CoV-2 Variants Continue to Evolve
Friday, March 8, 2024
- Zika Virus Vaccine Emerges as an Unlikely Hero in Battling Brain Cancer
- Researchers Open New Leads in Anti-HIV Drug Development, Using a Compound Found in Nature
- COVID-19 Virus Can Stay in the Body More Than a Year After Infection
Thursday, March 7, 2024
- What Makes a Pathogen Antibiotic-Resistant?
- Children Surpass a Year of HIV Remission After Treatment Pause
Monday, March 4, 2024
Friday, March 1, 2024
- New Antibodies Target 'dark Side' Of Influenza Virus Protein
- How Virus Causes Cancer: Potential Treatment
Thursday, February 29, 2024
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Monday, February 26, 2024
- Long-Term Data Reveals SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Vaccine-Induced Antibody Responses Are Long-Lasting
- 'Hexaplex' Vaccine Aims to Boost Flu Protection
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
- Scientists Discover Link Between Leaky Gut and Accelerated Biological Aging
- Study of Usefulness of Lockdowns During Epidemics Identifies Alternate Solution
- Study Finds High Number of Persistent COVID-19 Infections in the General Population
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
- Researchers Are Using RNA in a New Approach to Fight HIV
- Breakthrough in Developing the PD-1-Enhanced DNA Vaccine for Over 6-Year cART-Free AIDS Prevention and Virologic Control
Monday, February 19, 2024
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
- Double Risk of Dementia After Mouth Ulcer Virus
- Climate Change Drove the Emergence of West Nile Virus in Europe
- Scientists Discover Hidden Army of Lung Flu Fighters
- Case Study: Drug-Resistant Bacteria Responds to Phage-Antibiotic Combo Therapy
- COVID-19 Vaccination and Boosting During Pregnancy Protects Infants for Six Months, Study Finds