
An English study has wanted to do a general overview of the evolution of Infections diseases in the recent history of mankind. They chose as the starting date in 1799, when George Washington first U.S. president-Epiglottis Bacterial died in a period when people died of measles often! The study reported that the evolution...

Research conducted in Ohio (USA) on over 5.000 patients found that 10% of them, both young (thirties) and old (sixty) had in his body the human papillomavirus infection, contracted during sexual intercourse. A survey shows that important because this infection causes serious disease for women, male partners also hits hard. In...

It was the team of Dr. Guido Poli, head of the immunopathogenesis of AIDS Institute San Raffaele in Milan, to lay the foundations for a future turning point in the search for a solution to this terrible disease. The “natural resistance” exists and resides in the DNA. Unfortunately this is a very rare feature,...

A disease more common than expected, although annoying but not deadly-when-contracted toxoplasmosis during pregnancy can cause serious damage to the unborn child. In Europe, half the population has already experienced, and although normally be contracted by eating raw meat or infected, can also be spread through our house...

The cells in our innate immune system have a memory. He said the result of a study conducted in Israel in collaboration with the American University of Harvard. It been shown that all cells of the immune system (not only the B and T of the adaptive immune system system has a memory but also the innate ones) are able to...

A nurse suffering from tuberculosis, an immediate suspension from service but also very afraid for all patients with whom she came into contact first to know of the disease. The scandal is news from Rome and the neonatology department of the Policlinico “Gemelli”. The risk of infection for hospitalized children...

Genetically modified animals and AIDS. In the first two arguments seem to feel light years away, not related, but a study conducted in Minnesota, connecting them in a sensible and convincing. At the university of that city, were made of kittens born to wild-type genes which were added those of jellyfish and those of the...

It’s called ‘F16′, and could be the long-awaited breakthrough for new treatments against influenza. The flu virus is continually changing, forcing scientists to produce a new seasonal vaccine every year but studies are being carried out in Switzerland have observed the human immune response to influenza...