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LOCATION:The Rainier Club\n820 4th Avenue\n\nSeattle\, WA 98104
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DTEND:20081204T140000
URL:http://culturemob.com/events/5613202-saving-lives-worldwide-the-animal-
 human-health-connection-wa-seattle-downtown-98104-the-rainier-club?s=ical
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UID:March 21\, 2010 23:55:06_705597325@diamond.culturemob.com
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DESCRIPTION:Creation of effective vaccines against diseases that have plagu
 ed animals and humans for thousands of years—particularly infections tran
 smitted by ticks\, mosquitoes\, and other insects—will revolutionize life
  for millions of people some day.
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\nThese new vaccines will deliver sign
 ificant health benefits and economic opportunities\, improving lives and li
 velihoods worldwide\, especially in developing countries.
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\nWendy Brown 
 is among few researchers in the world capable of designing the life-changin
 g vaccines needed to overcome some of our most crippling diseases. Her effo
 rts focus on developing vaccines to stop diseases similar to human malaria.
  Bovine babesiosis and bovine anaplasmosis thrive in hot\, tropical and sem
 i-tropical climates\, common in Africa\, and both cause anemia and persiste
 nt infection in cattle.
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\nThe global cost of tick-borne diseases is esti
 mated between $13.9 and $18.7 billion annually. In developing countries\, w
 here a typical family’s cattle herd is only three to six animals\, the lo
 ss of a single cow to disease can mean premature termination of a child’s
  education or inability to purchase needed medicines.
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\nDr. Brown’s mo
 st recent research is concentrated on identifying the pathogen proteins\, c
 alled antigens\, that can prompt an immune response in a host infected with
  babesiosis or anaplasmosis. Proteins with that ability are good candidates
  for use in vaccines.
\nHelping in this quest to rapidly screen antigens is
  a new method developed by Dr. Brown and her WSU research team. Earlier met
 hods required several months to produce and purify a single protein for tes
 ting. Now\, dozens of proteins can be screened within a few weeks. With con
 tinued advances like these\, vaccines to prevent infection or to minimize d
 isease when infection occurs are moving ever closer to reality.
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\nFor mo
 re information\, please visit: http://www.theinnovators.wsu.edu
SUMMARY:Saving Lives Worldwide: The Animal-Human Health Connection
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