Marburg Vaccine Shows Promising Results in a First-in-Human Study
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Good safety profile may help MARV vaccine efficiently quell emergency outbreaks
Viruses
Measles Virus "Cooperates" with Itself to Cause Encephalitis
Kyushu University
New mechanism reveals how measles virus can cause subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
Diagnosis, Treatment of Hepatitis C Using Point-of-Care Assays
World Health Organization
Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Clinical Microbiologist?
María Carla Rosales Gerpe, MSc, PhD
Scientist who helped decode SARS-CoV-2 in Canada shares what it takes to be a clinical microbiologist during a pandemic
WHO Updates COVID-19 Guidelines
World Health Organization
Updates to the guidelines relate to masks, treatments, and isolation periods
Developing Mucosal Vaccines for Respiratory Viruses
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
NIAID experts offer perspective on next-generation approaches
Simple Nasal Swab Can Provide Early Warning of Emerging Viruses
Yale University
A new study finds that testing for a single immune system molecule on nasal swabs can help detect stealthy viruses
FDA Approves New HIV Drug for Adults with Limited Treatment Options
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The new medication is for those whose HIV infections cannot be successfully treated with other treatments
Do You Want Better Control of Nucleic Acid Quality for Viral Sequencing?
Today's Clinical Lab
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The Monkeypox Virus DNA-Synthesizing Machine
American Association for the Advancement of Science
The authors hope this finding could lead to designs for new treatments