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Kate Willetts, Aug 28 2008, the first woman to receive the world's first cervical cancer vaccine, Gardasil. AAP

Australia can beat virus-related cancers if we only show the will

By Marian Pitts, La Trobe University and Jack Wallace, La Trobe University

Australia has had a pioneering role in the discoveries that underpin our understanding that some cancers can be caused by infectious agents. But we still face many problems that could be solved if we only…
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Mutations of the flu virus render drugs ineffective for treating infected patients. Leonid Mamchenkov

Marvellous mutants: how nimble flu viruses outsmart drugs

By Aeron Hurt, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza

The United Nations Food and Agricultute Organisation is warning authorities to be on high alert after a mutant strain of bird flu was found to be spreading across Asia. While bird flu hasn’t traditionally…

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Raw sewage full of unknown viruses

University of Michigan

Raw sewage could be home to thousands of novel, undiscovered viruses, some of which could have implications for human health…