Hacker News with Generative AI: Infectious Diseases

1 Genomic Test Can Diagnose Nearly Any Infection (ucsf.edu)
A genomic test developed at UC San Francisco to rapidly detect almost any kind of pathogen – virus, bacteria, fungus or parasite – has proved successful after a decade of use.
Strep A kills half a million per year; why don't we have a vaccine? (wellcome.org)
Strep A is among the deadliest pathogens in the world – yet we’ve never prioritised making a vaccine.
Scientists develop mRNA vaccine that protects mice against C. difficile bacteria (medicalxpress.com)
A large team of microbiologists, pathologists and infectious diseases specialists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has developed an mRNA vaccine that has thus far been found able to protect mice against intestinal Clostridioides difficile bacterial infections.