Talk:Lassa fever

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[edit] Prevention and the Canadian National Microbiology Laboratory vs. USAMRIID

I have checked into what the National Lab in Winnipeg has published after an individual placed NML in the place of USAMRIID for the Vaccine research. I had originally included two reference to USAMRIID's work which had never been removed.

  • Geisbert TW, Jones S, Fritz EA, Jahrling P, et al. 2005 Development of a new vaccine for the prevention of lassa fever. PLOS MEDICINE 2 (6): 537-545 JUN 2005.
  • Preston, Richard. 2002 The Demon In The Freezer. Random House, Inc.

The second reference is a non-fiction book about smallpox, but it does give background about Peter Jahrling, a co-authour of the above article (reference).

I checked to be sure that the NML had not published anything on Lassa Vaccines. I was right. Here is a PDF listing of some of their selected publications: [1]

There are some interesting related topic however, worth looking into for those that are interested. I include them here:

  • Bastien,N., Trudel,M., and Simard,C. (1999) Complete protection of mice from respiratory syncytial virus infection following mucosal delivery of synthetic peptide vaccines Vaccine 17: 832-836. PubMed
  • Kang,C.Y., Luo,L., Wainberg,M.A., and Li,Y. (1999) Development of HIV/AIDS vaccine using chimeric gag-env virus-like particles Biol.Chem. 380: 353-364. PubMed
  • Weingartl,H., Czub,M., Czub,S., Neufeld,J., Marszal,P., Gren,J., Smith,G., Jones,S., Proulx,R., Deschambault,Y., Grudeski,E., Andonov,A., He,R., Li,Y., Copps,J., Grolla,A., Dick,D., Berry,J., Ganske,S., Manning,L., and Cao,J. (2004) Immunization with modified vaccinia virus Ankarabased recombinant vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome is associated with enhanced hepatitis in ferrets J.Virol. 78: 12672-12676. PubMed

[edit] Spread to UK, US, etc...

Can someone find a reference to back this up? I don't think this has happened at all yet, and will remove this paragraph unless someone points me to some literature... Thanks.

         http://www.vrtnieuws.net/nieuwsnet_master/versie2/nieuws/details/060722Lassagriep/index.shtml
         It's in Dutch, but basically is about a recent case of Lassa Fever in Frankfurt.


== Hey there,

I was reading The Deamon in the freezer, then looked up some stuff on smallpox, came across lassa stuff on the way. I do believe that there is Lassa vaccine developed by USAMRIID.

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