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NIAID News Release: Statement of Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., on Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
On National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of NIH, joins American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians in remembering those who have succumbed to HIV/AIDS. We at NIAID reaffirm our commitment on this occasion to the goal of controlling and ultimately ending this devastating pandemic.
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NIAID News Release: Barrier in Mosquito Midgut Protects Invading Pathogens
When the Anopheles gambiae mosquito takes a blood meal, that act triggers two enzymes to form a network of crisscrossing proteins around the ingested blood. The barrier also prevents the mosquito’s immune defense system from clearing any disease-causing agents that may have slipped into the blood meal, such as the Plasmodium malaria parasite, which in turn can be passed on to humans.
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NIAID News Release: NIAID Media Availability: Vaccinating Children against Flu Helps Protect Wider Community
Results of a clinical trial conducted in a largely self-contained religious community during the 2008-09 influenza season show that immunizing children against seasonal influenza can significantly protect unvaccinated community members against influenza as well.
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NIAID News Release: Public Comment Sought On Draft Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy
NIAID is seeking public comment on draft Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergy. The public comment period is open for 60 days beginning March 5 and ending May 3. Health care professionals and interested members of the public are encouraged to review the guidelines and participate in the open comment period by visiting the NIAID Food Allergy Clinical Guidelines public comment site at www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/foodAllergy/clinical/comments.htm.
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NIAID News Release: New Approach to Immune Cell Analysis Seen as First Step to Better Distinguish Health and Disease
Investigators have developed a new mathematical approach to analyze molecular data derived from complex mixtures of immune cells. This approach, when combined with well-established techniques, readily identifies changes in small samples of human whole blood, and has the potential to distinguish between health and disease states.
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NIAID News Release: NIAID Media Availability: Food Allergy-Related Disorder Linked to Master Allergy Gene
Scientists have identified a region of a human chromosome that is associated with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE), a recently recognized allergic disease. People with EoE frequently have difficulty eating or may be allergic to one or more foods. This study further suggests that a suspected so-called master allergy gene may play a role in the development of this rare but debilitating disorder.
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NIAID News Release: NIAID Media Availability: Scientists Find New Form of Prion Disease that Damages Brain Arteries
NIH scientists investigating how prion diseases destroy the brain have observed a new form of the disease in mice that does not cause the sponge-like brain deterioration typically seen in prion diseases. Instead, it resembles a form of human Alzheimer’s disease, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, that damages brain arteries.
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