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Now physicists in the UK have shared their computers with biologists from countries including France and Korea in an effort to combat the disease. Using an ...</p> <p class="search-info">Article - <a href="https://www.science20.com/profile/news_staff" title="View user profile.">News Staff</a> - Feb 18 2007 - 1:19pm</p> </dd> <dt class="title"> <a href="https://www.science20.com/news/global_study_concludes_attack_rate_of_flu_in_kids_is_55_percent_lower_with_nasal_spray_vaccine">Global Study Concludes 'Attack Rate' Of Flu In Kids Is 55 Percent Lower With Nasal Spray Vaccine</a> </dt> <dd> <p class="search-snippet"> In a study spanning the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, researchers writing in the Feb. 15 New England Journal of Medicine say a nasal spray flu vaccine reduced the influenza "attack rate" in children by 55 percent when compared ...</p> <p class="search-info">Article - <a href="https://www.science20.com/profile/news_staff" title="View user profile.">News Staff</a> - Feb 16 2007 - 1:22am</p> </dd> <dt class="title"> <a href="https://www.science20.com/news/malaria_the_right_vaccine_in_the_right_place">Malaria: The Right Vaccine In The Right Place?</a> </dt> <dd> <p class="search-snippet"> A new study by Christopher Plowe and colleagues (University of Maryland School of Medicine) on a malaria vaccine used at a testing site in Mali calls into question whether the best vaccine was chosen to be tested at this particular site. The development o ...</p> <p class="search-info">Article - <a href="https://www.science20.com/profile/news_staff" title="View user profile.">News Staff</a> - Mar 12 2007 - 10:28pm</p> </dd> <dt class="title"> <a href="https://www.science20.com/news_articles/potential_malaria_transmission_higher_previously_thought">Potential For Malaria Transmission Higher Than Previously Thought</a> </dt> <dd> <p class="search-snippet"> Each year, malaria results in more than a million deaths. Controlling this disease involves understanding its transmission, and understanding its transmission means understanding its basic reproductive number, R0. For all infectious disease, R0 describes ...</p> <p class="search-info">Article - <a href="https://www.science20.com/profile/news_staff" title="View user profile.">News Staff</a> - Oct 19 2010 - 6:03pm</p> </dd> <dt class="title"> <a href="https://www.science20.com/news/malaria_vaccine_prompts_victims_immune_system_to_eliminate_parasite_from_mosquitoes">Malaria Vaccine Prompts Victims' Immune System To Eliminate Parasite From Mosquitoes</a> </dt> <dd> <p class="search-snippet"> Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have developed an experimental vaccine that could, theoretically, eliminate malaria from entire geographic regions, by eradicating the malaria parasite from an area's mosquitoes. The vaccine, so far te ...</p> <p class="search-info">Article - <a href="https://www.science20.com/profile/news_staff" title="View user profile.">News Staff</a> - Mar 21 2007 - 1:16am</p> </dd> <dt class="title"> <a href="https://www.science20.com/news/researchers_find_best_way_to_detect_airborne_pathogens">Researchers Find Best Way To Detect Airborne Pathogens</a> </dt> <dd> <p class="search-snippet"> Current methods used to sniff out dangerous airborne pathogens may wrongly suggest that there is no threat to health when, in reality, there may be. But researchers have found a better method for collecting and analyzing these germs that could give a more ...</p> <p class="search-info">Article - <a href="https://www.science20.com/profile/news_staff" title="View user profile.">News Staff</a> - Mar 21 2007 - 12:43pm</p> </dd> <dt class="title"> <a href="https://www.science20.com/news/opportunistic_chlamydia_screening_not_underpinned_by_sound_evidence">Opportunistic Chlamydia Screening 'not Underpinned By Sound Evidence'</a> </dt> <dd> <p class="search-snippet"> There are two types of screening programs – proactive and opportunistic. Proactive screening uses population registers to invite people to be screened at regular intervals, while opportunistic screening targets people attending health services for unrelat ...</p> <p class="search-info">Article - <a href="https://www.science20.com/profile/news_staff" title="View user profile.">News Staff</a> - Jul 4 2009 - 12:29pm</p> </dd> <dt class="title"> <a href="https://www.science20.com/news/arming_the_fight_against_resistant_bacteria">Arming The Fight Against Resistant Bacteria</a> </dt> <dd> <p class="search-snippet">In 1928, Alexander Fleming opened the door to treating bacterial infections when he stumbled upon the first known antibiotic in a Penicillium mold growing in a discarded experiment. 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