News tagged with diarrheal disease
Oral vaccine could prevent half of cholera cases, but less effective in kids
Oral vaccines could prevent up to 60 percent of cholera cases in the first two years after vaccination, according to a new review of vaccine studies.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 16, 2011 |
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Cholera strain evolves new mechanism for causing disease
New clinical strains of cholera appear to have evolved a distinctly different mechanism to cause the same disease according to research published in the current issue of the online journal mBio.
Dec 09, 2010 |
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Haiti cholera deaths rise above 300
Haiti's cholera toll rose Thursday above 300, as doctors sought desperately to contain the epidemic as victims overwhelmed the quake-hit nation's crumbling hospitals, spilling into its maternity wards.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 28, 2010 |
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Cholera fears spark anti-clinic protest in Haiti
(AP) -- Protesters threw rocks at a cholera treatment center as it was preparing to open in the city of St. Marc on Tuesday, highlighting the fear surrounding a disease that was almost unknown in Haiti before it began spreading ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Oct 27, 2010 |
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Discovery of a hepatitis C-related virus in bats may reduce outbreaks in humans
Viral hepatitis affects more than 500 million people worldwide and is a cause of liver failure and liver cancer. While vaccines are available for hepatitis A and B, this is not the case for hepatitis C, which affects as much ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 01, 2010 |
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Journal special edition outlines rotavirus burden and need for vaccines
The Journal of Infectious Diseases has released a special edition, Global Rotavirus Surveillance: Preparing for the Introduction of Rotavirus Vaccines. This special edition provides a significant contribution to the unders ...
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Nov 05, 2009 |
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Researchers identify structure of bacteria responsible for traveler's diarrhea
Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), the Naval Medical Research Center and the National Institutes of Health, have solved the structure of thin hair-like fibers called "pili" or "fimbriae" on the surface ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Researchers develop E. coli vaccine
A Michigan State University researcher has developed a working vaccine for a strain of E. coli that kills 2 million to 3 million children each year in the developing world.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 14, 2009 |
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