Gaétan Dugas, infamously, and wrongly, labeled Patient Zero. PHOTO: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
BOSTON–A new study pinpoints with greater precision than ever before when and where HIV entered the United States and sparked North America’s AIDS epidemic.…
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Protesters gathered in Sacramento last June to try to kill a bill that aimed to make it more difficult for parents to opt-out of vaccinations required for public schools. AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli
WASHINGTON, D.C.—If there’s a war on science, it’s not just one war. And branding people who disagree with you about vaccines, climate change, or genetically…
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Chris Duffy says comedy can help the science go down. David Andrako
WASHINGTON, D.C.—“I’m not a doctor,” Brian Malow announced at a standing-room only session in Washington, D.C., today at the annual meeting of AAAS (which publishes Science). “But…
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The yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, is Zika's most important vector. Photo: Marcos Teixeira de Freitas, Creative Commons
U.S. President Barack Obama today announced that his administration plans to ask Congress for more than $1.8 billion in emergency funding to beef up preparations…
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Investigators at the Uganda Virus Research Institute first isolated the Zika virus from this forest. Photo: Andrew Haddow
On 18 April 1947, a rhesus monkey that researchers identified as 766 ran a fever of 39.7°C, about 2°C higher than normal. The monkey was…
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Jorge Kalil (holding box), director of Brazil's Butantan Institute, says his team hopes to make a Zika vaccine by mimicking a strategy used for the related dengue virus. PHOTO: BUTANTAN COLLECTION
Less than a year ago, Zika seemed too trivial for anyone to bother developing countermeasures. The mosquito-borne virus was racing through the Southern Hemisphere, but,…
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Antiretroviral drugs reduced HIV levels in this man's blood to minuscule levels, but his lymph node cells (purple) still produced detectable viral RNA (green). PHOTO: STEPHEN WIETGREFE, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
A new study stirs a longstanding debate and suggests that the way to cure HIV infections may be to make drugs that better reach “sanctuary…
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New journal aims to make paper submissions simpler and faster. New journal aims to make paper submissions simpler and faster. Credit: Pathogens & Immunity
There’s no shortage of places to publish original research papers about pathogens and immunity, but a new peer-reviewed journal on those topics has a unique…
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In 2004, before anti-HIV drugs were widely available in India, an AIDS ward in Chennai was filled with patients. Photo: Malcolm Linton
A new report written by a high-profile commission urges the world to learn from the many mistakes made during the Ebola epidemic and revamp how…
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