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New Video: Researchers Tracking Ebola in the Congo

(Global Biodefense) A new video highlights National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) scientists and their collaborators as they search for Ebola and other emerging viruses in a remote jungle in the Republic of the Congo. Researchers hope to learn how to prevent these viruses from causing infection and death in animals and humans.

October 5, 2012
| Filed under Africa, North America, International, and Public Health
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Another patient from Choa Saidan Shah confirmed for CCHF

(The International News) A 45-year-old male patient, undergoing treatment at the Holy Family Hospital (HFH) since September 27 after being suspected as a patient of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), has been confirmed positive for the infection by the National Institute of Health, Islamabad. The hospital administration, however, claimed that the patient is out of danger Read More »

October 5, 2012
| Filed under Africa, North America, Agents & Toxins, International, and Public Health
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U.S-Acquired Human Rabies with Symptom Onset and Diagnosis Abroad, 2012

(CDC) On July 8, 2012, a U.S. resident was admitted to a hospital in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for evaluation of right arm spasticity, anxiety, and malaise. By the next day, the patient had become comatose following a period of agitation. On July 31, he died. Investigators from CDC, state, and local health departments determined Read More »

October 5, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, and Public Health
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How synthetic biology will change us

(NBC News) In the future, genetically modified organisms could be making our medicines, our fuel, our housewares, our houses — and they could even help us remake ourselves. All that may sound like science-fiction, but the future is already arriving, in the form of the bioplastic bottle you may be holding in your hand. Harvard Read More »

October 4, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biotechnology, and Research
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Chloroquine makes comeback to combat malaria

(EurekAlert) Malaria-drug monitoring over the past 30 years has shown that malaria parasites develop resistance to medicine, and the first signs of resistance to the newest drugs have just been observed. At the same time, resistance monitoring at the University of Copenhagen shows that the previously efficacious drug chloroquine is once again beginning to work Read More »