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Living anti-HIV gel shows early promise

...a to colonise the internal body surfaces where HIV transmission can occur through sexual activity, could offer cost-effective, efficient and long-lasting protection against the virus. The team, led by Srinivas Rao, chief of laboratory animal medicine at the Vaccine Research Center of the US National Institute of...

PLoS Medicine publishes first trial of effect of male circumcision on HIV infection

...sion, or whether it may also reduce male to female transmission or male to male transmission. In addition, it will be important to determine the mechanism by which circumcision exerts its apparent protective effect. Three articles published in PLoS Medicine alongside the trial discuss some of these issues fu...

Agricultural workers at increased risk for infection with animal flu viruses

...cting agricultural workers could amplify influenza transmission among humans and domestic animals during a pandemic and cause considerable damage to the swine and poultry industries, as well as the U.S. economy." While swine in other countries have been infected by the H5N1 virus, to date, the virus has not becom...

Gene that helps mosquitoes fight off malaria parasite identified

...elieve that such a mosquito could help disrupt the transmission of malaria to humans. "An immune-responsive serpin, SRPN6, mediates mosquito defense against malaria parasites" was written by Eappen G. Abraham, Sofia Pinto, Anil Ghosh, Dana L. Vanlandingham, Aidan Budd, Stephen Higgs, Fotis C. Kafatos, Marcelo Ja...

Asian immigrants in NYC not receiving HIV education at religious institutions

...ns need to take the lead to change that to prevent transmission in their communities, and assist those who are alr...h consequences of not understanding how to prevent transmission of the virus." ...

Volunteers sought for avian flu vaccine study

... to a small number ofcases in which human-to-human transmission is believed to have occurred. Identified as H5N1, the strain of the influenza virus has shown a high mortality rate - approximately 72 percent - with many fatalities among previously healthy young people. The vaccine researchers are testing was mad...

Vaginal gel may provide a new approach to HIV prevention

...a safe, effective and practical way to prevent HIV transmission in women, according to study investigators. The st...robicides could be applied topically to reduce the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Ronald Veazey, chair of the Division of Comparat...

Drug resistant avian influenza viruses more common in Southeast Asia than North America

...nfected birds and only one probable human-to-human transmission was reported in Vietnam. This has so far prevented...breaks that threaten humans. For example, a ProMED transmission on July 6, 2005 noted that Joseph Domenech, the chief veterinary officer for the United Nations Food...

Studies clarify risk factors for mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis C virus

...feeding does not raise the risk of mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV), according to two new s...inary data from smaller studies of mother-to-child transmission of HCV. The larger of the two studies, conducted by the European Paediatric Hepatitis C Virus Netw...

North & South American researchers find architectural abnormalities in T. cruzi ribosome

...ozen sample is imaged with an electron beam in the transmission electron microscope. A CAT scan takes readings of a single body from different angles to reconstruct its three-dimensional images, but the microscope catches hundreds of ribosomes at different angles in a single snapshot. Frank and his colleagues ha...

New results validating Pall prion reduction filter disclosed at ISBT Congress

...monly called Mad Cow Disease, and minimize risk of transmission through blood transfusion was presented here at th... the NBS, discussed the incidence and risk of vCJD transmission by blood transfusion. He reviewed the role of new technologies to reduce the risk of transfusion tra...

European Commission funds EBI to do new research on synergies between bioinformatics and medical informatics

...03, to determine the risk of avian influenza virus transmission to persons in contact with the animals. The outbre...heir work provides the first serologic evidence of transmission of low pathogenic strains of avian influenza virus to humans during an outbreak in domestic poultry....

Eating, body weight regulated by specific neurons

...03, to determine the risk of avian influenza virus transmission to persons in contact with the animals. The outbre...heir work provides the first serologic evidence of transmission of low pathogenic strains of avian influenza virus to humans during an outbreak in domestic poultry....

First Whole Genome Map of Genetic Variability in Parkinson’s Disease

...03, to determine the risk of avian influenza virus transmission to persons in contact with the animals. The outbre...heir work provides the first serologic evidence of transmission of low pathogenic strains of avian influenza virus to humans during an outbreak in domestic poultry....

Transplanting Animal Organs Could Soon Be A Reality

...03, to determine the risk of avian influenza virus transmission to persons in contact with the animals. The outbre...heir work provides the first serologic evidence of transmission of low pathogenic strains of avian influenza virus to humans during an outbreak in domestic poultry....

Less virulent strains of avian influenza can infect humans

...03, to determine the risk of avian influenza virus transmission to persons in contact with the animals. The outbre...heir work provides the first serologic evidence of transmission of low pathogenic strains of avian influenza virus to humans during an outbreak in domestic poultry....

Agricultural antibiotic use contributes to 'super-bugs' in humans

...eria to humans. Smith and colleagues say that the transmission of antibiotic resistant bacteria from animal to hu...y contaminated food, and a very low probability of transmission at a given meal." Nevertheless, based on the analysis presented in PLoS Medicine, the authors sugges...

Scientists use gene transfer technology and common virus to block neuropathic pain

...y nerve cells, so its product can be used to block transmission of pain signals from damaged nerves to the brain."... to Fink. Physicians have drugs that block neural transmission by mimicking the actions of inhibitory agents like GABA, but it's difficult to give these drugs in a...

Controlling wildlife trade key to preventing health crises, study says

...8 months. Besides the direct impact on people, the transmission of wildlife-borne pathogens also affects domestic animals and native species that have no resistance to exotic diseases. Dr. Robert Cook, Vice President of Health Sciences at WCS said, "A fungal disease called chytridiomycosis, a pathogen that has b...

Mosquitoes are more attracted to individuals infected with malaria

...Africa and understanding the factors affecting its transmission remains a crucial part of the effort to combat the disease. A new study published in the premier open access journal PLoS Biology conducted in Western Kenya by Jacob Koella and colleagues now reveals that mosquitoes are more attracted to children wit...

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