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President Trump uses two executive orders to weigh in on the childhood vaccine schedule.
ASV is alarmed by the US HHS to suspend and debar Dr. Ralph Baric from federal funding. Read our open letter below:
Transferrin receptor 1 binds human parvovirus B19 VP1u to facilitate entry
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Another fantastic preprint on BA.3.2's propensity for children, this time from Yunlong Cao & co.
They not only confirm David Ho's lab findings (that kids have ~0 Ab response to BA.3.2) but dig into the details of exactly why kids are so vulnerable to BA.3.2.
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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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What it’s like to work on an Ebola ward
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Multifunctional Pan-ebolavirus Antibody Recognizes a Site of Broad Vulnerability on the Ebolavirus Glycoprotein www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
Donald Trump recently issued two executive orders claiming that children in the United States are receiving too many vaccines.
Researchers identify transferrin receptor 1 as the long-sought receptor, previously termed VP1uR, required for parvovirus B19 entry into erythroid cells, and determine the cryo-EM structure of the rec...
The ongoing evolution of SARS-CoV-2 is heavily constrained by population-level immune imprinting. Recent genomic surveillance reveals an unexpected demographic shift: the highly mutated BA.3.2.2 subli...
On the front line of the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Esther Kaisiki puts aside her own fear and promises patients they won’t be abandoned
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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...