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Chagas disease potential treatment: ‘I think it has a really strong chance of being a real solution’

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Researchers from the University of Georgia have discovered a potential treatment for Chagas disease, marking the first medication with promise to successfully and safely target the...

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El Salvador Chagas survey: No less than 10% of triatomine bugs are potentially transferable of T. cruzi to humans

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 One thing you might want even less than a ‘kiss’ from a kissing bug is its feces. Scientifically referred to as triatomine bugs, these blood-sucking insects can carry in their...

Researchers investigate potential treatment for Chagas disease

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 University of Oklahoma and Baylor College of Medicine researchers are investigating a potential treatment for a disease that affects as many as 8 million people in the United States...

Ivermectin campaign for scabies to be rolled out in the Solomon Islands

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 An anti-parasitic drug will be rolled out on mass scale in the Solomon Islands to prevent scabies, a contagious, intensely itchy skin condition that affects a third of the nation’s...

Acinetobacter baumannii use thin stretchy fibers to attach to surfaces and cause infections: Finland researchers

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 The antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii bacterium is one of the most globally harmful bacteria that causes hospital-acquired infections. Researchers at the University of...

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Research: Human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox virus, Bat SAR-CoV spillovers

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Evidence of human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox virus Published in The Lancet this week, researchers from France describe a human-to-dog monkeypox transmission. 12 days after symptom...

Lyme Disease Vaccine Candidate to enter Phase 3 Study

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Pfizer Inc. and Valneva SE announced the initiation of a Phase 3 clinical study, Vaccine Against Lyme for Outdoor Recreationists (VALOR) (NCT05477524), to investigate the efficacy,...

Langya henipavirus identified in China: A NEJM correspondence

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 During sentinel surveillance of febrile patients with a recent history of animal exposure in eastern China, a phylogenetically distinct henipavirus, named Langya henipavirus (LayV),...

Single shot rabies vaccine shows promising results in Phase 1 clinical trial

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 Researchers from the University of Oxford have recently reported new findings from a Phase 1 clinical trial studying the immune response and safety of their newly-developed single...

One in eight COVID-19 patients develop long COVID symptoms: Study

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NewsDesk @bactiman63 One in eight adults (12.7%) who are infected with SARS-CoV-2 experience long term symptoms due to COVID-19, suggests a large Dutch study published in The Lancet. The study provides...