Virology

Artificial vaccines offer hope to prevent diseases

Published in Vector and Zoonosis Week, April 28th, 2003

New work on artificially constructed viruses offers the hope of effective vaccines for devastating diseases in the future, according to researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in work presented at the Society for General Microbiology's Spring Meeting in Edinburgh.

The scientists are working on a particularly nasty disease in sheep called the bluetongue virus that causes huge economic losses worldwide, but the technique may eventually be applied to many different diseases, including ones caused by viruses that attack people.

"Bluetongue virus used to be restricted to hotter climates, where the midges which transmit it...

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Source: Vector and Zoonosis Week (2003-04-28)

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