Researchers have discovered critical new details about the structure of a virus that causes potentially fatal brain swelling and paralysis in children, pointing toward designs for antiviral drugs to treat the disease.

Removing Half the Brain Only Treatment for Neurological Disease That Strikes Otherwise Healthy Children DARIEN, Conn., Oct.

Imagine having a child with seizures so severe that the only known treatment is a cerebral hemispherectomy – removal of half the brain.

Although immunity to mumps is high in the United States, mumps vaccine coverage must be maintained and improved to prevent future outbreaks.

Research at the University of Liverpool has supported the vaccination of more than 50 million people against a zoonotic brain infection that affects thousands of children across Asia every year.