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...vaccine is a genetically engineered virus missing essential replication genes,” Knipe said...
...explained that the vaccine prevents herpes because it causes the virus to only partially complete its replication process...
When former South African President Nelson Mandela announced that his only surviving son had died of aids, news of the family tragedy resonated around the world. More than 5 million South Africans are HIV positive; the U.N. estimates that more than 600 of them die of the virus every day. But the government of Mandela's successor, Thabo Mbeki, has hampered efforts to fight the disease by questioning the link between HIV and AIDS and the efficacy of AIDS drugs. Mandela's public acknowledgment last week that his son Makgatho, 54, an apprentice lawyer, had succumbed to the disease...
...good year to spend time near ducks or chickens, particularly in Southeast Asia. Millions of fowl were culled in Thailand and Vietnam, which bore the brunt of this year's outbreak of H5N1 influenza, as fear of a widespread epidemic mounted. Public-health officials were particularly alarmed when the virus showed up in tigers, leopards and pigs, mammals that often serve as influenza bridges from animal reservoirs to humans. And in Thailand scientists identified one case of what they fear was human-to-human transmission: a mother fell ill and died from the flu after caring for her infected daughter...
Oster said she is currently researching the correlation between the number of men in a country and the possibility that the country will go to war. She is also exploring sex ratios in Asia and how it relates to the Hepatitis B virus. Beyond those endeavors, she said she is always on the lookout for future topics. “I think I take it as it comes,” she said...