Immunology

How Are Nurses Becoming Infected With Ebola?

Lab scientists working with Ebola use respirators, while surgical masks are deemed adequate for nurses at the front line. Credit: EPA/Anne-Marie Sanderson/DOH   By C Raina MacIntyre ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 15 2014 - 7:01pm

Conventional Medical Centers May Be Unable Stop Ebola

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Article - News Staff - Oct 17 2014 - 12:30am

Ebola: Bats Get A Bad Rap When It Comes To Spreading Diseases

Credit: Diana Ranslam, CC BY-NC By Alexandra Kamins, Colorado Hospital Association; Marcus Rowcliffe, Zoological Society of London, and Olivier Restif, University of Cambridge ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 17 2014 - 7:00am

Panic Over Ebola Echoes 19th Century Fear Of Cholera

Fears of cholera coming shared a lot in common with fear of Ebola. Graetz 1883 © Historical Society of Pennsylvania By Sally Sheard, University of Liverpool On October 19 an inspector sent north from London to Sunderland reported a long-awaited arrival: t ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 17 2014 - 4:11pm

The Croup: Winning The War Against Human Parainfluenza Virus

Human parainfluenza virus (hPIV) is highly infectious and the leading cause of upper and lower respiratory tract disease in young children, including Croup, which is responsible for thousands of hospitalizations in the developed world, and hundreds of tho ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 20 2014 - 1:30pm

Superspreaders: How Disease Propagates In Infected Animals- And Antibiotics Help

Some people infected with pathogens spread their germs to others while remaining symptom-free- a new study may answer why. When researchers in a new study gave oral antibiotics to mice infected with Salmonella typhimurium, a bacterial cause of food poison ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2015 - 11:34am

Viral Mutation: Why You May Be More Susceptible To Last Year's Flu

Why were so many middle-aged adults hit especially hard by the H1N1 influenza virus during the 2013-2014 influenza season?  Vaccines work by stimulating the immune system to produce antibody proteins against particles (called antigens) from an infectious ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2014 - 9:54am

How Lymph Nodes Expand During Disease

A new paper finds that the same specialized immune cells that patrol the body and spot infections also trigger the expansion of the immune organs known as lymph nodes. The immune system defends the body from infections but can also spot and destroy cancer ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2014 - 5:31pm

How Gut Bacteria Ensure A Healthy Brain – and Could Play A Role In Treating Depression

Your second brain? Credit: hey__paul, CC BY By Clio Korn, University of Oxford ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 23 2014 - 6:30am

How To Build A Powerful Antibiotic

Antibiotics are a part of nature, as is antibiotic resistance. A study on how a powerful antibiotic agent gets made in nature solved a decades-old mystery and opens up new avenues of research into thousands of similar molecules. The team focused on a clas ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 26 2014 - 8:41pm