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		<title>UGA.Today: Infectious Diseases</title>
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		<dc:date>2012-05-16T14:00:+00:00</dc:date>
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				<title>Malaria discoveries could pave way for new therapies</title>
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					Half the world's population is at risk for contracting malaria. The deadly disease, spread by hungry mosquitoes that bite humans for their blood meals, affects more than 200 million people each year, and many people-mostly children-die.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 12:04:49 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA researcher receives $2.82 million grant to track tuberculosis transmissions in Africa</title>
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					Christopher Whalen, the Ernest Corn Professor of Epidemiology in the department of epidemiology and biostatistics in the University of Georgia College of Public Health, has received a five-year, $2.82 million grant to understand how tuberculosis is transmitted in urban environments in Africa.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 1 May 2012 12:01:36 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Black flies may have a purpose after all</title>
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					Black flies drink blood and spread disease such as river blindness-creating misery with their presence. A University of Georgia study, however, proves that the pesky insects can be useful.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 9 Apr 2012 14:35:38 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA Voices lecture series concludes with wildlife&#8217;s role in health pandemics</title>
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					An international ecology expert with a passion for wildlife and life in the bush will deliver this year's final Global Diseases: Voices from the Vanguard lecture on April 10 at 5:30 p.m. in the University of Georgia Chapel.
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				<pubDate>Fri, 6 Apr 2012 13:52:16 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>One Health mini&#45;symposium to focus on climate change, infectious disease</title>
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					On April 3, experts from the University of Georgia, Emory University and the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom will spend the afternoon sharing their One Health perspectives on how a changing climate might impact the incidence of infectious diseases in both people and animals around the globe.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:30:45 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>African meningitis enemy is next UGA Voices lecturer</title>
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					A public health visionary who has spent the past 10 years developing an effective and inexpensive meningitis vaccine for Africa will deliver the next Global Diseases: Voices from the Vanguard lecture on March 20 at 5:30 p.m. in the University of Georgia Chapel.
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				<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:02:11 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA animal vaccine may slow deadly spread of Chagas disease</title>
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					Chagas disease is the single most common cause of congestive heart failure and sudden death in the world. The devastating parasitic infection affects millions of people throughout Central and South America. But as global travel increases, it's becoming a greater threat in the United States and Europe as well.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:54:02 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Leading cause of blindness topic of next UGA Voices Lecture</title>
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					Trachoma starts off looking like ordinary pink eye or conjunctivitis. But left untreated, this bacterial infection causes eyes to ooze, lids to swell and sometimes turn inside out, and leads to permanent scarring that blinds millions of people every year.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:58:55 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Study offers new information for flu fight</title>
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					Influenza virus can rapidly evolve from one form to another, complicating the effectiveness of vaccines and anti-viral drugs used to treat it. By first understanding the complex host cell pathways that the flu uses for replication, University of Georgia researchers are finding new strategies for therapies and vaccines, according to a study published in the January issue of the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.
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				<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:36:50 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>CDC&#8217;s Tauxe to kick off 2012 global diseases lecture series</title>
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					Dr. Robert Tauxe, a physician and public health expert who has spent his  career battling illnesses transmitted by contaminated food and water,  will open the seventh annual Global Diseases: Voices from the Vanguard  lecture series on Jan 17 at 5:30 p.m. in the University of Georgia  Chapel.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 9 Jan 2012 21:23:36 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA scientists &#8216;hijack&#8217; bacterial immune system</title>
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					A team of University of Georgia researchers has discovered how to harness this bacterial immune system to selectively target and silence genes. The finding, published today in the early online edition of the journal Molecular Cell, reveals a powerful new tool that has far-reaching implications for biotechnology and biomedical research.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 5 Jan 2012 20:23:32 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA experts available to speak on 2011&#45;2012 flu season</title>
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					Like all public places, the University of Georgia has its share of  germs. But it also has experts who can help UGA students&mdash;and Georgia  communities&mdash;stay healthier this flu season.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:04:34 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Good health, flu shots featured at annual Dawgtoberfest</title>
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					The University of Georgia College of Pharmacy and the American  Pharmacists Association will celebrate American Pharmacists Month with  the ninth annual Dawgtoberfest: Rx for Good Health Oct. 19 from noon to 3  p.m. at the Tate Student Center.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:07:16 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>College of Public Health to offer Ph.D. In epidemiology</title>
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					The University of Georgia will become the first institution of higher education in the University System of Georgia to offer a doctoral degree in epidemiology after a move approved by the Board of Regents during its September meeting. The university's College of Public Health will start classes in fall 2012.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:30:47 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Symposium to address health care concerns &#8211; U.S. And Israel</title>
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					Health care reform, emergency preparedness, traffic safety and obesity are just a few of the common global health issues to be tackled by researchers, health care providers and policymakers from the U.S. and Israel at the fourth annual Global Health Symposium to be held Sept. 7 - 8 at the University of Georgia.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:00:35 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA researchers use gold nanoparticles to diagnose flu in minutes</title>
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Arriving at a rapid and accurate diagnosis is critical during flu outbreaks, but until now, physicians and public health officials have had to choose between a highly accurate yet time-consuming test or a rapid but error-prone test.
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				<pubDate>Sat, 6 Aug 2011 17:25:48 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA study links land use with spread of West Nile virus</title>
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					Researchers at the University of Georgia have developed a mathematical model showing a link between land cover pattern and the spatial spread of West Nile virus in New York City. The team's findings, recently published in the journal PLoS Computational Biology, show a pattern of deceleration that has not been described before and could help public health officials more efficiently target disease control efforts.
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				<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 13:08:33 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>College of Veterinary Medicine to receive grant to study interventional vaccine for Rabies Virus</title>
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					Dr. Zhen Fang Fu, a rabies researcher in the University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine, will collaborate with Thomas Jefferson University Jefferson Medical College and several other institutions to test a curative vaccine for Rabies Virus, or RV, that could be administered late in the disease process. Fu&rsquo;s work will be funded by a $1.4 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a division of the National Institutes of Health.
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				<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:39:52 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>New UGA technology makes textiles permanently germ&#45;free</title>
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					A University of Georgia researcher has invented a new technology that can inexpensively render medical linens and clothing, face masks, paper towels-and yes, even diapers, intimate apparel and athletic wear, including smelly socks-permanently germ-free.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 7 Jul 2011 19:20:09 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA researchers discover potential new mechanisms of drug resistance in Toxoplasma</title>
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					Scientists have for years been puzzled by why drugs are sometimes effective in treating parasitic diseases, while other times they have little or no effect.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:02:06 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA Research Foundation receives $1.6 million to develop disease&#45;resistant livestock</title>
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					The University of Georgia Research Foundation has received almost $1.6 million from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation to support a team of researchers from the University of Georgia and the U.S. Department of Agriculture in their efforts to develop a new technology to breed chickens resistant to Newcastle Virus.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 15:17:11 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA researchers discover role of cell&#45;division &#8220;master organizer&#8221; in disease&#45;cause</title>
				<link>http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/role&#45;of&#45;cell&#45;division&#45;in&#45;disease&#45;causing&#45;parasite</link>
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					A disease called toxoplasmosis is considered to be a leading cause of death attributed to foodborne illness in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 
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				<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:32:06 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA lecture series kicks off with intestinal infection expert</title>
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					William A. Petri Jr., an internationally known expert on intestinal infections in children, opens the 6th annual Global Diseases: Voices from the Vanguard lecture series on Tuesday, Jan. 25, in the University of Georgia Chapel.
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				<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:44:12 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA researchers develop rapid diagnostic test for common type of pneumonia</title>
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					University of Georgia researchers have developed a technique that can diagnose a common type of pneumonia within minutes, potentially replacing existing tests that can take several days for results.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:05:21 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>State public health director to deliver 2010 Ramsey Lecture at UGA</title>
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					Dr. M. Rony Fran&ccedil;ois, director of the Division of Public Health for the Georgia Department of Community Health, will deliver the annual University of Georgia Bernard B. Ramsey Lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 3, at 4 p.m. Entitled "Public Health Needs in Georgia: Current and Future Directions," the lecture will take place in Masters Hall of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel.
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				<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:34:07 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Researchers to study anthropogenic drivers of rabies in vampire bats</title>
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					Now, a team of researchers, led by associate professor Sonia Altizer of the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology, hopes to close these knowledge gaps with a $580,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for a three-year study of rabies in vampire bats in Peru.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 20:06:29 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>New research shows how disease&#45;causing parasite gets around human innate immunity</title>
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					A team of researchers at the University of Georgia and Glasgow University has now shown, for the first time, just how one species of these parasites evades the human innate defenses. The finding could open the way for new classes of drugs and more in-depth studies about how parasites manage to kill so many and cost governments billions of dollars to fight.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:36:12 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Superbug comes to UGA, Athens&#45;Clarke Library</title>
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					Science journalist and author Maryn McKenna will share some powerful stories from her recent book, Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA, in two public programs on Aug. 31 and Sept. 2 in Athens.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:55:27 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA researchers unlocking the secrets of cross&#45;species rabies transmission</title>
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					Like most infectious diseases, rabies can attack several species. However, which species are going to be infected and why turns out to be a difficult problem that represents a major gap in our knowledge of how diseases emerge.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 5 Aug 2010 14:01:31 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA researcher awarded $3 million for schistosomiasis research in Kenya</title>
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					The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health has awarded Dan Colley, professor of microbiology and director of the University of Georgia Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases, a five-year $3 million research grant to continue basic science studies on schistosomiasis in western Kenya.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 1 Jun 2010 15:07:17 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA researchers use patented SERS technique to rapidly, accurately detect rotavirus strains</title>
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					Using nanotechnology and a patented signal enhancing technique developed at the University of Georgia, UGA researchers have discovered a rapid, sensitive and cost-effective method to detect and identify a number of rotavirus strains and genotypes in less than one minute with greater than 96 percent accuracy.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 17:33:44 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Malaria battle headway topic of next Voices from the Vanguard lecture</title>
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					Progress in the fight against malaria will be the topic of the next "Global Diseases: Voices from the Vanguard" lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 23, at 5:30 p.m. in the University of Georgia Chapel.
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				<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:25:56 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Penn, UGA collaboration awarded $14.6 million to expand pathogen database</title>
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					Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Georgia have been awarded a five-year, $14.6 million contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, to expand and extend work on the Eukaryotic Pathogen Genome Database Resource, http://EuPathDB.org.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:17:47 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>New model may help scientists better predict and prevent influenza outbreaks</title>
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					A new study by an international team of researchers, led by assistant professor Andrew W. Park, who holds a joint appointment in the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology and in the College of Veterinary Medicine, may make their task a little easier.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:26:21 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>World experts gather for UGA flu conference</title>
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					In an effort to address the ongoing H1N1 pandemic and to prepare against future ones, leading influenza experts from around the world will gather at the University of Georgia for the third annual "Immunobiology of Influenza Virus Infection" conference at the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel on July 26-28.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:52:35 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>College of Veterinary Medicine hires GRA Distinguished Investigator</title>
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					The University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine has hired a distinguished immunobiologist as part of its infectious diseases research team expansion.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 1 Jul 2009 17:23:57 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA College of Public Health to hold community forum on influenza virus</title>
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					In an effort to engage the Athens community as a partner in prevention, the University of Georgia College of Public Health is hosting a community forum on the influenza virus.
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				<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 22:39:57 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA experts available to offer commentary on the H1N1 virus</title>
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					The University of Georgia, one of six National Institutes of Health Regional Centers of Excellence of Influenza Research and Surveillance (CEIRS), has several experts who can comment to the media on the H1N1 virus (commonly known as swine flu)
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				<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:34:18 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>NIH grant will strengthen fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis at UGA</title>
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					Christopher Whalen, professor of epidemiology in the University of Georgia College of Public Health, will receive a $1.1 million grant to develop a program to help train Ugandan health scientists in public health or health services research.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA Health Center recognizes Sexual Responsibility Week</title>
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					The University of Georgia Health Center is presenting a series of activities to promote Sexual Responsibility Week, Feb. 8 -12.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 5 Feb 2009 19:14:05 GMT</pubDate>
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					The University of Georgia and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have launched a new collaboration focusing on understanding and controlling threats to human health.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:19:01 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA Research Foundation receives $18.7 millon Gates Foundation grant</title>
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					The University of Georgia Research Foundation has received a five-year, $18.7 million grant from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation to research ways to reduce morbidity from schistosomiasis in low- and middle-income countries in Africa, the Middle East and the Americas.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:08:50 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Study reveals gap in HIV testing knowledge</title>
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					Most college students understand how they can prevent the transmission of HIV but are less knowledgeable about HIV testing, according to a new University of Georgia study.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 0:46:56 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Research identifies method for testing efficacy of Chagas&#8217; disesase treatments</title>
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					Now, new research just published by scientists at the University of Georgia has identified for the first time a sensitive method for testing and assessing the efficacy of treatments for Chagas' disease.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:50:39 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA students fighting the spread of HIV with mobile media</title>
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					A unique project by students of the University of Georgia's New Media Institute (NMI) may soon make wireless phones a new vehicle for Public Service Announcements in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
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				<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:55:08 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA establishes new Faculty of Inectious Diseases to target threats to animal and human health</title>
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					The University of Georgia has established a new multidisciplinary Faculty of Infectious Diseases to address infectious disease threats to animal and human health worldwide.
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				<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:50:58 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>Emerging infectious diseases are ont he rise: Next target &#8220;hotspot&#8221; predicted</title>
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					It's not just your imagination. Providing the first-ever definitive proof, a team of scientists has shown that emerging infectious diseases such as HIV, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), West Nile virus and Ebola are indeed on the rise.
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				<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:02:48 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>New genetic model could help scientists understand aspects of parasite</title>
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					The word Apicomplexa may be unfamiliar to most people. But the parasites it describes are all too familiar-causing malaria, toxoplasmosis and several other diseases. These scourges are complex and difficult to study, but a new model system may change that.
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				<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:33:22 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>New class of drug offers hope to treatment&#45;resistant AIDS patients</title>
				<link>http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/new&#45;class&#45;of&#45;drug&#45;offers&#45;hope&#45;to&#45;treatment&#45;resistant&#45;aids&#45;patients</link>
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					For the estimated millions of AIDS patients worldwide who are resistant or are developing resistance to currently available medicines, a discovery by a University of Georgia researcher may offer a new treatment option by targeting a previously elusive enzyme in the complex retrovirus responsible for the devastating disease.
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				<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:37:46 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title>UGA researchers discovers how human body fights off African parasite</title>
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					Now, a team of researchers led by biochemists at the University of Georgia propose that T. b. brucei actually does infect humans but that the infection triggers release of hemoglobin from red blood cells.
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				<pubDate>Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:29:13 GMT</pubDate>
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