One massive hurdle in fighting Ebola in DRC: Ituri has nowhere near the capacity it needs for safe and dignified burials, just 7 of 98 needed ambulances, for instance.
That means higher likelihood of unsafe burials and new infections as well as longer wait and more anger/mistrust in communities.
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President Trump uses two executive orders to weigh in on the childhood vaccine schedule.
Transferrin receptor 1 binds human parvovirus B19 VP1u to facilitate entry
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ASV is alarmed by the US HHS to suspend and debar Dr. Ralph Baric from federal funding. Read our open letter below:
Kai Kupferschmidt
Paul Offit
Multifunctional Pan-ebolavirus Antibody Recognizes a Site of Broad Vulnerability on the Ebolavirus Glycoprotein www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
My new piece looks at recent bizarre overestimates of Long COVID rates.
Also, how we can be fairly certain that the true rate of Long COVID is now very low in 2026.
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I wonder how much of this is down to researchers ordering the same reagent that a previous paper used.
Ebola virus, a member of the Filoviridae family, causes severe disease in humans.
Gilchuk et al. isolated and characterized broadly neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies
active against all three cl...
The basis for the last sentence below: New data from David Ho's lab showing that while adults & kids have ~equal antibody responses to XFG & NB.1.8.1, children have essentially no neutralizing antibodies to BA.3.2.
This seems to solve the BA.3.2 + kids mystery. 1/14
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