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University of Virginia researchers are developing a flexible online tool for navigating information used in the fight to save children from deadly diarrheal diseases by identifying transmission hotspots and accelerating the deployment of treatments and new vaccines.

<p>A new online dashboard will identify transmission hotspots and accelerate the deployment of treatments and new vaccines for dangerous diarrheal diseases that kill thousands of children each year.</p>

University of Virginia researchers are developing a flexible online tool for navigating information used in the fight to save children from deadly diarrheal diseases by identifying transmission hotspots and accelerating the deployment of treatments and new vaccines.

As headlines focus on COVID-19 and, now, monkeypox, tuberculosis remains one of the great scourges of infectious disease around the world. Approximately 1.5 million people died of tuberculosis in 2020, the World Health Organization reports.

As headlines focus on COVID-19 and, now, monkeypox, tuberculosis remains one of the great scourges of infectious disease around the world.

UVA antibody testing proposes many Virginians vulnerable to COVID-19 and last updated 2021-02-24 08:11:19-05 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - As Americans across the country are on the hunt towards herd immunity to end the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers at the University of Virginia are revealing COVID-19 antibody testing done around the state. “Antibodies are a way to see additionally about how much spread has occurred that we dont know about,” Dr. Eric Houpt, Professor and Chief of Infectious...

Sandy Hausman reports In August the University of Virginia looked at blood drawn from more than 5,000 patients who had gone to the doctor for something other than COVID-19.  Fewer than three percent had antibodies to the virus.  Credit CDC Using that as a baseline, Dr. Eric Houpt, chief of UVA’s Division of Infectious Diseases, was able to calculate the number of people who might now be carrying some degree of immunity. “Fifteen to 20% would be our prediction, and that’s still too low f...

Herd immunity in Virginia likely out of reach, UVA Health antibody study shows Herd immunity in Virginia likely out of reach, UVA Health antibody study shows By Riley Wyant | February 15, 2021 at 8:06 PM EST - Updated February 15 at 8:06 PM CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - The term ‘herd immunity’ is a common phrase that has been tossed around often during the pandemic, but a study out of UVA Health shows herd immunity is likely out of reach for Virginians. This study involved thous...

UVA researchers have concluded herd immunity in Virginia is “currently not a plausible means of ending the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Statewide blood testing for COVID-19 has found that only 2% of Virginians had antibodies to the virus as of mid-August. The result has prompted the...