An article from One India News, excerpt :
" Jodhpur, Feb 14 : The city saw its first swine flucasualty for the year when a person, who was admitted in ahospital ten days ago died here this afternoon.
The patient, who was on a ventilator since he testedpositive, breathed his last today, hospital sources said.
According to Arvind Mathur, Head of the DepartmentMedicine said R K Soni, a resident of Ratanada locality, wasadmitted to the hospital on February 4, under criticalconditions, with symptoms of Pneumonia.
His swab was sent for the test to the microbiologydivision of the S N Medical College and the report declaredhim positive for swine flu.
After that, he was shifted to the isolation ward and wasput on ventilator."
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Friday, June 18, 2010
Washington : New discovery paves way for effective malaria vaccine
Via One India :
" Washington, June 18 : An international team of researchers has made a novel discovery that offers new hope for an effective vaccine against malaria in the future.
Plasmodium falciparum, a blood parasite that causes malaria by invading and multiplying in the red blood cells, kills 1 to 2 million people annually.
"How the parasite invades red blood cells is not completely understood. For many years it has been known that proteins called glycophorins are used by the parasite to gain entry into the red cell," said Jose A. Stoute, senior investigator and team leader, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Penn State College of Medicine.
Because infection can take place without glycophorins, researchers suspected that another protein is also involved. The identity of this protein remained a mystery for 20 years and it was named the "X" receptor.
A team of researchers now reports the identity of this protein as the complement receptor 1 (CR1), also known to help protect red cells from attack by the immune system.
CR1 has been suspected of having other roles in the development of malaria complications."
" Washington, June 18 : An international team of researchers has made a novel discovery that offers new hope for an effective vaccine against malaria in the future.
Plasmodium falciparum, a blood parasite that causes malaria by invading and multiplying in the red blood cells, kills 1 to 2 million people annually.
"How the parasite invades red blood cells is not completely understood. For many years it has been known that proteins called glycophorins are used by the parasite to gain entry into the red cell," said Jose A. Stoute, senior investigator and team leader, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Penn State College of Medicine.
Because infection can take place without glycophorins, researchers suspected that another protein is also involved. The identity of this protein remained a mystery for 20 years and it was named the "X" receptor.
A team of researchers now reports the identity of this protein as the complement receptor 1 (CR1), also known to help protect red cells from attack by the immune system.
CR1 has been suspected of having other roles in the development of malaria complications."
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