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Health News and Information - News Medical - Infectious Diseases - Jul 30, 2018 Edition

Health News and Information - News Medical

	July 30, 2018
	Infectious Diseases
	The latest infectious diseases news from News Medical

Biosafety CabinetsMeeting the Industry Standards

To ensure the personnel and sample protection, individuals must be confident that their biosafety cabinets align with industry-approved standards. This latest guide looks at the classes and standards required and how to test for them.

			Hepatitis D Symptoms and Transmission Hepatitis D is a viral infection that causes liver inflammation (swelling of the tissue which occurs due to injury or infection) and damage. Symptoms are typically similar to those of the flu, and the infection is transmitted through the sharing of contaminated needles or bodily fluids.

			Undetected Zika infections may be cause stillbirths and miscarriages A collaborative study between six of the National Primate Research Centers shows pregnancy loss due to Zika A infections that don't cause women any symptoms may be a common but unrecognized cause of miscarriages and stillbirths.

	Certain antibodies against a carbohydrate could protect against malaria Certain type of antibodies against α-Gal- a carbohydrate expressed by many organisms including the malaria parasite- could protect against malaria, according to a new study led by ISGlobal, an institution supported by "la Caixa" Foundation.

	Researchers develop inexpensive blood test to diagnose hepatitis B patients A simple $20 blood test could help diagnose thousands of patients with hepatitis B in need of treatment in some of Africa's poorest regions.

	New study provides important clues to developing more effective Ebola vaccines Scientists conducting the first comprehensive study of key immune system cells-;collected from West African Ebola survivors that kill Ebola infected cells have made a surprising discovery that provides important clues to developing effective vaccines against the infection.

	Researchers conduct survey to understand people's perceptions on Zika virus In a summer outbreak that posed significant risks to pregnant women and their fetuses, 29 people in Miami-Dade County were infected with the Zika virus between late June and early August of 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

	Preventative HIV vaccines induce robust, comparable immune responses in humans and monkeys More than three decades after the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus, scientists are still working to develop a preventative vaccine that could finally put an end to the epidemic for which there are nearly two million new infections each year.