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Two people are shot when a group of desperate families raids a flood-control embankment. The wounded raiders are seeking to drain the water from their suburban Bangkok district; the gunman is protecting his dryer neighborhood. Elsewhere in the sodden Thai city, slumdwellers stage boat races in water fouled with...
The CDC complex near Atlanta belies its importance. Its headquarters are located in a squat suburban brick building, graced in front by a bust of Hygeia, the Greek goddess of health. Some sections are housed in wooden barracks around a former Army hospital. The agency, then known as Malaria Control...
At least four herpes vaccines are under development. Last week ground was broken for a new facility at Porton Down in England that will produce a newly developed vaccine for large-scale, controlled testing. The vaccine, created by a team at the University of Birmingham under Scottish Virologist Gordon Skinner...
The Birmingham group also obtained good results with subjects who had already had one episode of herpes and were vaccinated immediately afterward. Ordinarily, nine out often such people will suffer another outbreak within a year, but the rate of recurrence was only 25% among subjects in the study. Skinner believes...
A similar vaccine, developed by Merck, Sharpe and Dohme, is under evaluation at the University of Washington's Herpes Research Clinic in Seattle. In animal tests, the vaccine offered good protection against herpes, and in cases where infection did occur the severity and frequency were reduced. Results in 500...