Infectious Disease

Mayo Clinic Begins Development of Zika Virus Vaccine

Mayo Clinic’s Vaccine Research Group will begin work on developing a vaccine to protect against the Zika virus, according to Mayo vaccinologist Gregory [...]

Minnesota Partnership Project Increases Accuracy in Malaria Testing

Malaria cases have dropped dramatically in the last decade in part due to the use of [...]

Foreseeing the Future of Vaccines

Since the first vaccine paved the way for the near-eradication of smallpox over 200 years ago, societies have looked to vaccines as a means [...]

Reflections on the Past – First cure with a new drug

Mayo Clinic’s role in developing the first effective tuberculosis treatment Patricia Thomas was trying to keep up her spirits. Her cough was not improving. Already thin, [...]

AIDS and Its Pulmonary Threat — A Mystery Solved

Since the 1980s, pneumocystis pneumonia, or PCP, has infected thousands of HIV/AIDS patients. For nearly three decades, Mayo Clinic internist Andrew Limper, M.D., has [...]

Mayo and Karolinska Seek Vaccine for Bird Flu

First, we’re not talking about the bird flu that decimated so many turkey and chicken farms this year. No, this is the [...]