Archive for April, 2007

Vaccine hasn’t rubbed out chickenpox entirely

Posted in Latest News on April 29th, 2007

Vaccine hasn’t rubbed out chickenpox entirely
Los Angeles Times - But the itchy, infectious disease is still cropping up. A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that a single shot does not produce a sufficient immune response in as many as 20% of people who receive it. As a result, older

Just the first?
San Marcos Daily Record - Melbye also said he would not take a body of a person that had died from an infectious disease but conceded it could be possible a person had such a diseases yet died from something totally unrelated. That s certainly something to be concerned

Scientists Identify New Virus

Posted in Latest News on April 27th, 2007

Scientists Identify New Virus
Playfuls - A U.S.-led study has identified a new virus that caused the deaths of three Australian transplant patients who received organs from a single donor. Researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, the Victorian Infectious Disease