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Today Cuba is one of the world's largest producers of a recombinant vaccine against hepatitis B. It is the only producer of a vaccine against the bacterium that causes meningitis B, a particularly nasty form of the disease. It also makes a diverse line of pharmaceuticals: interferon for cancer...
--Here's a shot in the arm for CANCER THERAPY. A vaccine shown to eradicate tumors in rats is soon to be tested in humans. Genetically engineered cells in the vaccine dismantle a kind of biological disguise that cancer cells generally use to thwart the immune system.
A new, purer vaccine against whooping cough has been shown to be just as effective--or even more so--as the current available vaccine in preventing the disease in infants. It also causes fewer of the troubling side effects, such as high fever, local inflammation and lethargy.
MAYIBOUT, GABON: The Ebola virus, cause of the world's deadliest known disease, has killed 13 and infected as many as 14 others in a remote villiage in Gabon. The villagers of Mayibout caught the deadly disease after eating meat from a dead chimpanzee found in the jungle. The World...
AIDS researchers are focusing on these rare cases, hoping that somewhere in these people - or in the strain of the virus they are carrying - lie clues to better treatments, an effective vaccine or even, someday, a cure. Scientists now estimate that perhaps 8% to 10% of those infected with HIV...