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(MedPage Today) -- A therapeutic HIV vaccine appears to reverse some of the immune dysfunction caused by the virus, researchers reported.

Several aid workers from Minnesota and Iowa who traveled to the Dominican Republic in 2008 contracted dengue fever, and few knew about the risk of getting the virus, researchers have reported.

Re-treating hepatitis C patients with standard therapy plus the investigational protease inhibitor telaprevir significantly improved the chances of eradicating the virus, researchers found.

The discovery of two antibodies that neutralize many strains of HIV may also have revealed a weak spot in the anti-immunity armor of the virus, researchers said.

CHICAGO (MedPage Today) -- A single course of interferon-based therapy, with or without ribavirin, produces long-term improvements in liver histology in patients with hepatitis C (HCV) who completely clear the virus, researchers found.

NEW YORK (MedPage Today) -- People whose bodies naturally fight off HIV infections have a team of antibodies that target the virus, researchers here said.

GENEVA (MedPage Today) -- HIV could be driven to elimination by a policy of universal testing and immediate treatment of those positive for the virus, researchers here said.