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By Region: North America

Many US schools are unprepared for another pandemic

(EurekAlert) Less than half of U.S. schools address pandemic preparedness in their school plan, and only 40 percent have updated their school plan since the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, according to a study published in the September issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control Read More »

August 31, 2012
| Filed under North America and Public Health
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Scientists map first steps in flu antibody development

(ScienceDaily) National Institutes of Health scientists have identified how a kind of immature immune cell responds to a part of influenza virus and have traced the path those cells take to generate antibodies that can neutralize a wide range of influenza virus strains. Study researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Read More »

August 30, 2012
| Filed under North America, Public Health, and Research
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New tick-borne virus puts the bite on Missouri farmers

(NBC News) When two Missouri farmers wound up hospitalized with fever, fatigue, low blood cell counts and elevated liver enzymes in 2009, doctors suspected ticks were to blame. Both men recently had reported tick bites, including a 57-year-old whose wife plucked a single critter off his abdomen with tweezers and a 67-year-old man who figured Read More »

August 30, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, and Public Health
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Anthrax Death Reported in Siberia

(The Daily Disease) Russia declared a state of emergency after an anthrax outbreak caused its first death. The outbreak occurred in the village of Druzhba, in the Altai region of Western Siberia. Local news reports the deceased man became infected after handling the carcass of a sick cow. An additional two confirmed and seven suspected Read More »

August 30, 2012
| Filed under Africa, North America, Agents & Toxins, International, and Public Health
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Salmonella Outbreak Prompts Nationwide Mango Recall; 103 Ill in 16 States

(Food Safety News) A major California-based produce company Wednesday recalled mangoes imported from Mexico and distributed nationwide as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that 103 people are ill in 16 states from Salmonella Braenderup. While federal and public health officials try to pinpoint the exact cause of the outbreak, Burlingham, California-based Splendid Read More »