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...caught it, and the clubhouse was disinfected. NBA players Paul Pierce, Grant Hill and Drew Gooden have had it. Staph killed a high school wrestler in California this summer, and last spring 15 students at a Pennsylvania high school were either treated for staph or symptoms caused by the virus...
...know HIV causes AIDS.' BARBARA HOGAN, South Africa's new Health Minister, reversing a decade of discredited government policies on the virus...
...team of researchers at Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital recently developed a therapy to suppress brain tumor growth by using a cancer-killing gene delivered via a virus vector to cells surrounding the tumor. Testing their treatment on mice, they said, yielded “spectacular” results...
...that, Casey A. Maguire, the lead author of the study, used “adeno-associated virus vectors”—the best vectors for global delivery—to introduce a gene that, when expressed, causes production of the protein interferon-beta...
...kids, says Dr. William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and an advisory member of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the nasal spray may help the immune system launch a broader and more diverse immune defense, since the vaccine contains weakened forms of live flu virus that replicate rapidly in the mucosal tissues. Such furiously multiplying viruses may actually benefit vaccine effectiveness in flu seasons like those included in the study, when there is significant mismatch - or "drift" - between the circulating flu strains and the vaccine strains, because the faster the viruses divide, the more likely...