“It was great that Mauricio and I arrived the same day; we were able to share first, very shocking, impressions and to go through the process of adapting to difficult working conditions together,” says Dr. Catherine Houlihan, an infectious disease doctor from the United Kingdom deployed through the World Health Organization (WHO) to help respond to the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.
Scientists at Australian National University investigating the herpes virus have been surprised to find an ongoing conflict in the cells of sufferers, even when the virus is apparently dormant Herpes Simplex Type 1 is a virus that causes cold sores. It remains in the body’s nervous system indefinitely after infection. Around 80 percent of Australians carry the virus, although it is usually in a dormant state.
VIRGO, the parent company of Infection Control Today magazine, has been acquired by global exhibition and information leader Informa plc.
Fifteen years ago, MIT professor John Essigmann and colleagues from the University of Washington had a novel idea for an HIV drug. They thought if they could induce the virus to mutate uncontrollably, they could force it to weaken and eventually die out - a strategy that our immune system uses against many viruses.
