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Possible Hepatitis C vaccine
Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infects up to 500,000 people in the UK alone, many of the infections going undiagnosed. It is the single biggest cause of people requiring a liver transplant in Britain.   view more (2007-09-06)

Possible Hepatitis C vaccine
Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infects up to 500,000 people in the UK alone, many of the infections going undiagnosed. It is the single biggest cause of people requiring a liver transplant in Britain.   view more (2007-09-04)

Researchers discover cold virus can 'hit and hide'
An international team of researchers has discovered that respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a common cold virus causing bronchiolitis in children, can act as a 'hit and hide' virus. It was thought that the virus could only survive in the body for a few days, but these new results show that the virus can survive for many months or years, perhaps... view more... (2004-04-23)

Study Implicates Human Coronavirus As Main Cause Of SARS
Early online publication: Tuesday 8 April 2003 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Research from Hong Kong fast-tracked for publication on THE LANCET's website--www.thelancet.com--provides evidence that a new virus belonging to the family Coronaviridae is likely to be the main cause of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). Malik Peiris from the University... view more... (2003-04-08)

SARS From Outer Space? (p 1832)
An alternative theory to the origin of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is proposed by scientists in a letter in this week's issue of THE LANCET--that the disease may have originated in outer space. Chandra Wickramasinghe from Cardiff University, UK, and colleagues describe how around a tonne of bacteria is deposited on the earth every... view more... (2003-05-21)

Sweat may pass on hepatitis B in contact sports
Sweat may be another way to pass on hepatitis B infection during contact sports, suggests research published ahead of print in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.   view more (2007-03-02)

Humans may give swine flu to pigs in new twist to pandemic
The strain of influenza, A/H1N1, that is currently pandemic in humans has been shown to be infectious to pigs and to spread rapidly in a trial pig population.   view more (2009-07-10)

Breakthrough in fight against Hendra virus
There has been a breakthrough in the fight against the deadly Hendra virus following the development of a treatment which shows great potential to save the lives of people who become infected with the virus.   view more (2009-11-02)

Researchers discover gut tissue to be a major reservoir harboring HIV
UCLA researchers have found the human gut to be a major reservoir harboring the HIV virus - holding almost twice as much as a person's blood.   view more (2006-08-28)

How to spot a hospital acquired computer virus"¦"¦..
A disturbing trend in the rise of computer viruses specifically acquired in hospital is revealed in this month's issue of the Archives of Disease in Childhood.   view more (2001-11-20)

Researchers link specific antibody presence to prevention of mother-to-baby HIV transmission
Exploring why some HIV-positive mothers transmit the virus in utero to their babies while others don't, researchers from the UCLA AIDS Institute and Los Alamos National Laboratory studied 38 infant-mother pairs in the UCLA arm of the Los Angeles Pediatric AIDS Consortium.   view more (2006-07-12)

Institute for Animal Health at the BA Festival: Rinderpest on the ropes
New vaccines could aid efforts to rid the world of cattle plague, according to research presented today (Tuesday 09 September 2003) at the BA festival of Science. Professor Tom Barrett and colleagues at the Institute for Animal Health (IAH) have produced several candidate vaccines, using the latest DNA technology, which could assist in the final... view more... (2003-09-02)

CT scans better than X-rays when detecting abnormalities in patients with H1N1 virus
Computed tomography (CT) scans are better than standard radiography (X-rays) in showing the extent of disease in patients with the H1N1 virus.   view more (2009-10-21)

Middle East virus `here to stay` in USA
A virus that originated in the Middle East has become endemic in certain parts of the USA and is set to spread further over the coming year, medical experts heard today (Wednesday 09 January 2002) during a joint meeting of the European Societies of Clinical and Veterinary Virology and the Society for General Microbiology at the Royal College of... view more... (2001-12-21)

Older liver donors not associated with negative outcomes in transplant recipients with hepatitis C
Receiving a liver from a donor older than age 60 does not appear to be associated with transplant failure, death or recurrent disease in the next five years among transplant patients with the hepatitis C virus.   view more (2008-07-22)

Scientists learn more about how viruses reproduce, spread
Biochemists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have made a surprising discovery about the inner workings of a powerful virus - a discovery that they hope could one day lead to better vaccines or anti-virus medications.   view more (2006-04-07)

How to increase the chances of remaining virus free Pakistani patients with HCV?
Hepatitis C is a health care problem all over the world, with 130 million patients infected the world over. The treatment is expensive and has variable results according to the genotype of the infecting virus.   view more (2008-05-21)

New electron microscopy images reveal the assembly of HIV
Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the University Clinic Heidelberg, Germany, have produced a three-dimensional reconstruction of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), which shows the structure of the immature form of the virus at unprecedented detail.   view more (2009-06-23)

Structure of influenza B virus protein gives clues to next pandemic
Determining the structure of a protein called hemagglutinin on the surface of influenza B is giving researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University in Houston clues as to what kinds of mutations could spark the next flu pandemic.   view more (2007-10-16)

Study shows how herpes infects cornea, evades immune cells
Herpes virus has an unusual strategy for infecting cornea cells that may also explain how it evades the immune system, according to a study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine.   view more (2006-09-26)
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