Latest Viral diseases Stories
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online A vial containing a potentially deadly strain of virus has disappeared from a secure laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, various media outlets reported on Sunday. According to Click2Houston.com, the virus, which was contained in a locked freezer at UTMB’s Galveston National Laboratory, contained less than one-fourth of a teaspoon of a virus known as Guanarito – a virus native only to...
Get Rid Of Herpes is the newly updated cure for herpes designed by Sarah Wilox, who promises to teach sufferers how to treat herpes naturally and permanently. A full Get Rid Of Herpes review on the site Vkool.com shows if the treatment is helpful for sufferers to follow. Seattle, Wa (PRWEB) March 21, 2013 Get Rid Of Herpes is the new cure for herpes written by Sarah Wilcox, who claims to help sufferers eliminate herpes quickly and naturally. The helpful program covers tested and proven...
Guidelines Developed with 23 National Health Organizations and Nine Years of Cervical Precancer-Management Data on 1.4 million Women FREDERICK, Md., March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP) today released the Updated Consensus Guidelines for Managing Abnormal Cervical Cancer Screening Tests and Cancer Precursors. A group of 47 experts representing 23 professional societies, national and international health...
polyDNA recommends that the public consider Gene-Eden-VIR, a natural herpes remedy with no side effects. Rochester, NY (PRWEB) March 20, 2013 polyDNA has learned that a new paper spotlights the status of recent antiviral research. (1) In one section of the paper, the authors highlight the state of affairs on anti-herpes medications. As of March 2013, a helicase-primase inhibitor (HPI) under the generic name of AIC316 and developed by AiCuris has now proceeded to phase I/II clinical...
--Study published in Journal of Virology demonstrates GEN-003 capable of eliciting immune responses that provide protection against recurrent disease in preclinical models-- CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Genocea Biosciences Inc., a clinical-stage company pioneering novel T cell vaccines, announced today the publication of new data to support GEN-003, its investigational vaccine for the treatment of HSV-2. The results, which are available today in the print edition...
Severe chronic pain associated with conditions such as bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis often require the use of opioid medication, with the risk of dependency and serious adverse reactions. An alternative treatment strategy increases the levels of a naturally occurring painkiller in and around the nerves that deliver pain signals to the bladder. This new therapeutic approach is described in an article in Human Gene Therapy, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.,...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Chimerix, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing novel, oral antivirals in areas of high unmet medical need, announced today that Michael D. Rogers, Ph.D., has joined the company as Chief Development Officer. Dr. Rogers will be responsible for overseeing chemistry, manufacturing, toxicology and project management as well as the advancement of compounds from the Chimerix Chemical Library. "We are extremely pleased to...
polyDNA answers new questions on herpes, HSV, herpes virus, genital sores, etc. collected from the public in its March, 2013 survey. Rochester, NY (PRWEB) March 13, 2013 Genital herpes can spread from one area in the body to another via touching active lesions, as well as through oral sex. One survey respondent commented, “I mean I don’t know…can herpes really travel from one spot on your genitals to say, your legs or someplace else on your body? Sometimes I get sores and they’re...
La Jolla Institute and Cardiff University discovery aids efforts toward cytomegalovirus vaccine A virus most people probably have never heard of, but that the majority of us carry, is the No. 1 infectious cause of congenital birth defects in the U.S. today. Because of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection during in utero development, 1 in 750 children are born with or develop permanent disabilities such as hearing loss or brain damage. But efforts to develop a first-ever CMV vaccine are gaining...
The widespread introduction of a chicken pox vaccine in Australia in 2006 has prevented thousands of children from being hospitalized with severe chicken pox and saved lives, according to new research. In a national study of chicken pox admissions at four participating Australian children's hospitals, researchers found the number of children hospitalized with chicken pox or shingles had dropped by 68% since 2006. The research was led by Associate Professor Helen Marshall from the...
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Yellow fever is an acute viral hemorrhagic disease with a 40 to 50 nm enveloped RNA virus with positive sense of the Flaviviridae family. It is transmitted by the bite of female mosquitoes and is found in tropical and subtropical areas in South America and Africa, but not in Asia. Primates and a few kinds of mosquitoes are the only known hosts. The origin of the disease is most likely Africa. From there it was introduced to South America through the slave trade in the 16th century. There...
West Nile virus (WNV) is a virus of the family Flaviviridae. It is part of the Japanese encephalitis antigenic complex of viruses and is found in both tropical and temperate regions. It primarily infects birds but can infect humans, horses, dogs, cats, bats, and other mammals. Humans are generally infected through the bites of mosquitoes and about 90% of West Nile Virus infections are without symptoms. The virion is 45-60 nm and covered with a relatively smooth protein surface. It is...
St. Louis Encephalitis is a disease caused by the Culex mosquito borne St. Louis Encephalitis virus. It is related to Japanese encephalitis virus and is a member of the Flaviviridae subgroup. It mainly affects the United States and occasionally hits Canada and Mexico. The name goes back to 1933 within five weeks in autumn an encephalitis epidemic of explosive proportions broke out in the vicinity of St. Louis, Missouri. Over 1000 cases were reported and the National Institute of Health...
Rotavirus is the most common cause of diarrhea among infants and young children and is one of several viruses that cause the stomach flu. It is in the family Reoviridae and is a genus of double-stranded RNA. Most children have been infected by the age of five. Each infection builds on previous immunity and thus subsequent infections are less severe and adults are rarely affected. The fives species of the virus are referred to as A, B, C, D, and E. Type A, which is the most common, causes more...
Rift Valley Fever (RVF) is a viral zoonosis that causes fever. It is spread through infected mosquitoes. It was first reported in 1915 in Kenya were it infected livestock. Outbreaks occur across sub-Saharan Africa, and in the "˜77-"˜78 outbreak several million people were infected and thousands died during a violent epidemic. In 1998 the virus killed 400 Kenyans and in 2000 an outbreak occurred in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The virus causes mild illness with fever, headache, myalgia and...
