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GeneOne Life Science And Inovio Pharmaceuticals To Collaborate On Zika Virus Vaccine Development
2016-01-25 04:31:25| drugdiscoveryonline News Articles
GeneOne Life Science (KSE:011000) today announced the initiation of a collaborative research program with Inovio Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:INO) to test and advance a DNA-based vaccine for preventing and treating the emerging and virulent Zika virus infection.
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Zika virus likely to spread to southern United States
2016-01-22 09:32:13| Biotech - Topix.net
By Karen Pallarito HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Jan. 21, 2016 -- As cases of the mosquito-borne Zika virus are spreading across central and South America and the Caribbean, experts say it's only a matter of time before the disease, which has been linked to an alarming increase in birth defects in Brazil, is transmitted within the United States. "It's not if, it's when," said Mustapha Debboun, director of the mosquito control division at Harris County Public Health and Environmental Services in Houston.
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Spreading Zika virus a new economic strain for Latin America
2016-01-20 22:24:10| Biotech - Topix.net
A U.S. warning that pregnant women should avoid Latin American countries where a mosquito-borne virus is multiplying couldn't have come at a worse time for a region that's counting on tourism to give it a boost at a time of economic crises. The alert issued Friday by the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention covers 14 countries and territories in the Americas where the Zika virus has been detected.
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Jamaica advises women to delay pregnancy due to Zika virus
2016-01-18 19:47:34| Biotech - Topix.net
This 2006 photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes aegypti mosquito in the process of acquiring a blood meal from a human host. On Friday, Jan. 15, 2016, U.S. health officials are telling pregnant women to avoid travel to Latin America and Caribbean countries with outbreaks of a tropical illness linked to birth defects.
K-State swine diagnosticians publish first characterization of parainfluenza virus
2016-01-15 18:23:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: Kansas State University Researchers in the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory have successfully published the first formal identification and characterization of porcine parainfluenza virus 1 from U.S. pigs, which had previously only been detected in Asia. read more
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