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Study Shows Escalating Climate Change Impacts On Human Health, The Environment, And The Economy
November 3, 2005 The Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, along with co-sponsors Swiss Re and the United Nations Development Programme, today released a study showing that climate ... > full story -
Scientists Show That Tick-Borne Flaviviruses Use A Novel Mechanism To Evade Host Defenses
October 10, 2005 Researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, have made the surprising discovery that flaviviruses, which cause such ... > full story -
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Bee Mites Suppress Bee Immunity, Open Door For Viruses And Bacteria
May 17, 2005 A non-native bee mite is causing the dramatic and sudden collapse of bee colonies across the country, but Penn State researchers believe they have found the combination of factors that triggers ... > full story -
Scientists Reveal How Disease Bacterium Survives Inside Immune System Cell
May 6, 2005 New research on a bacterium that can survive encounters with specific immune system cells has strengthened scientists' belief that these plentiful white blood cells, known as neutrophils, dictate ... > full story -
Researchers Identify Protein Crucial For Survival Of Lyme-Disease Bacterium
April 25, 2005 When the tick-borne bacterium that causes Lyme disease lacks a specific protein that responds to an incoming meal of blood, it is unable to be transmitted from the tick to a new animal host, ... > full story -
Lice Join Ticks As Possible Disease Carriers
March 28, 2005 PhD students Anthony Martin and Graeme Brown from the Faculty of Science and Information Technology have just published research that shows lice could be a source of disease ... > full story -
In Wake Of Lyme Disease Vaccine For People, Mice May Be Next In Line For Shots
December 20, 2004 As Americans queue up anxiously for flu shots, new research proposes a different sort of mass vaccination program to combat Lyme disease – a vaccine drive for ... > full story -
Vaccinating Wildlife Can Reduce Human Risk For Lyme Disease
December 19, 2004 Direct field evidence shows that Lyme disease in humans can be prevented by vaccinating wildlife, researchers in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine report in ... > full story -
Broad-Based Vaccination Of Wild Mice Could Help Reduce Lyme Disease Risk In Humans
December 14, 2004 Vaccinating large populations of white-footed mice against the bacterium that causes Lyme disease could help reduce the risk of transmission of the disease to humans, says a study supported by the ... > full story -
Lyme Disease Receptor Identified In Tick Guts
November 15, 2004 Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have identified a Lyme disease receptor called TROSPA that is used by disease agents to invade ... > full story
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