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Wearing goggles and ear plugs while swimming can help protect you from illness.
Sepsis causes 11 million deaths globally each year.
A growing body of evidence suggests the main driver of MS is an abnormal immune response to Epstein-Barr virus.
A pediatrician and preventive medicine physician explains how measles vaccines became victims of their own success and the risk that rising outbreaks pose to everyone.
Climate change is causing dengue-carrying mosquitoes to spread. Could the disease become endemic in Europe?
We’ve all heard of antibiotic resistance. The same thing is happening with other causes of infections in humans: fungi, viruses and parasites. This is making thrush and other infections hard to treat.
Hepatitis C treatments are up to 95% effective when caught early.
The Marburg virus, a close cousin of Ebola, currently has no approved treatments or vaccines to protect against it.
Inflammation and damage to the olfactory system from shingles, COVID-19 and herpes infections may contribute to Alzheimer’s disease.
Using a Nobel Prize-winning technique called cryo-EM, researchers were able to identify potential areas on the hepatitis C virus that a vaccine could target.
Respiratory syncytial virus may be common, but it can lead to severe infection in some children.
Evidence is growing there are changes to your immune system that may put you at risk of other infectious diseases.
Phages, or viruses that infect bacteria, can lie dormant within chromosomes until they’re triggered to replicate and burst out of their hosts.
Coinfections with bacteria can make viral infections even deadlier. Researchers have identified a protein in immune cells that may play a role in fighting both types of pathogens.
While a strong immune response is essential to fight against viral infection, an immune system that continues to stay active long after the virus has been cleared can lead to lung damage.
This is not the first time that the monkeypox virus has spread beyond Africa, its continent of origin. But the current epidemic is unprecedented for a number of reasons.
The latest report from the WHO and Unicef found cases have increased nearly 80% worldwide.
Decreases in respiratory infections during the pandemic suggest there may be a continued role for the selective, non-mandated use of measures like masks and social distancing even post-COVID-19.
Rhinoviruses may play a critical role in controlling the spread of SARS-CoV-2 among the human population.
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Biologiste, Immunologiste. Directeur de recherches au FNRS, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Medicine, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Affiliate Associate Professor of Genome Sciences and Microbiology, University of Washington
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Laureate Professor, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
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Professor, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University
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Professor, Australian National University
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Professor and Dean of Programs (Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences), University of South Australia
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Professor in Microbiology and Molecular Biology, UNSW Sydney
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Public Health Registrar in the Division of Public Health Medicine, University of Cape Town
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Clinical Senior Lecturer, Clinical Medicine, Trinity College Dublin
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Distinguished Professor, Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Stellenbosch University
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Chief Research Scientist, Virology Project Leader, CSIRO
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Professor of Eye & Vision Health, Flinders University
