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Shelby County Health Department tests medicine delivery to prepare for bioterrorism attack
(The Commercial Appeal) Less than two hours after a bioterrorism response drill began in Lakeland on Tuesday morning, some 1,500 households had empty pill bottles on their doorsteps. In the case of an actual attack, those bottles would contain the medicine needed to combat bioterrorism agents such as anthrax or botulism. Read More »
- October 31, 2012
- | Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Bioterrorism, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
Mandatory flu vaccine for health care workers to protect patients
(EurekAlert) All health care workers in health care institutions should be vaccinated with the annual influenza vaccine to protect patients, argues an editorial in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). “Each season, 20% of health care workers get influenza, and 28% of young healthy adults who get it have asymptomatic or subclinical Read More »
- October 30, 2012
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River Watcher: A look at the invisible world of viruses
(OrovilleMR) Carolus Linnaeus, “the father of classification,” may not have been thinking of viruses when he said, “Nature is most wonderful in the smallest things.” Super microscopic virus cells have caused havoc from strep throat, smallpox, polio, measles, influenza, HIV, to swollen plant deformities … to havoc on the computer. The Read More »
- October 30, 2012
- | Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Public Health, and Research
US Increases Funding to Combat Influenza and Emerging Disease Threats
(All Africa) FAO’s commitment to fight emerging disease threats in “hotspot” regions worldwide is getting a boost with new funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the UN agency said today. The funding, totalling more than $20 million, will support the ongoing US-FAO partnership against H5N1 highly pathogenic Read More »
- October 30, 2012
- | Filed under Africa, North America, Agents & Toxins, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
Study suggests new way to prevent recurrent ear infections
(Nationwide Children’s Hospital) Eliminating bacteria’s DNA and boosting antimicrobial proteins that already exist may help prevent middle ear infections from reoccurring. These are the findings from a Nationwide Children’s Hospital study that examined how an immune defense protein common in the middle ear interacts with a structure meant to protect a Read More »
- October 30, 2012
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BAA – Medical Countermeasures for Priority Pathogens
(Global Biodefense) The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has released Read More »
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New Antibody Weapons Against Marburg Virus
(Global Biodefense) A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute identifies Read More »
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FDA Accepts BLA for Inhalational Anthrax Countermeasure
(Global Biodefense) Anthim (obiltoxaximab) is for the treatment and prevention of inhalational anthrax, Read More »
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South Korea MERS death toll rises to 20
(CNN) The World Health Organization said Tuesday that the number of new cases Read More »
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What you should know about MERS, the mystery disease that has South Korea on edge
(Washington Post) The spread of MERS, which has infected 126 people since the outbreak began last Read More »
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We Now Know More About Sexually Transmitted Ebola
(TIME) In March 2015, officials discovered that a Liberian man who had survived Read More »
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Scientists find new variant of streptococcal bacteria causing severe infections
(Imperial College London) Scientists have discovered a new variant of streptococcal bacteria that Read More »
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VUMC joins Human Vaccine Project as first scientific hub
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), the Human Vaccines Project and the International AIDS Read More »
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Researcher who spiked rabbit blood to fake HIV vaccine results slapped with rare prison sentence
(Washington Post) Dong Pyou Han, a former Iowa State University researcher charged with Read More »
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New Antibody Weapons Against Marburg Virus
(Global Biodefense) A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute identifies Read More »
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How Yelp Can Be Used to Track Outbreaks of Food Poisoning
When a Shigella outbreak at a San Jose, California, seafood restaurant sickened dozens Read More »
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We Now Know More About Sexually Transmitted Ebola
(TIME) In March 2015, officials discovered that a Liberian man who had survived Read More »
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Legionnaires’ Bacteria Regrew in Bronx Cooling Towers That Were Disinfected
(TheNewYorkTimes)- The 15 water-cooling towers that were found to be contaminated this week Read More »
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Millions More Need H.I.V. Treatment, W.H.O. Says
(TheNewYorkTimes)- The World Health Organization issued sweeping new guidelines on Wednesday that could put Read More »
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Sentencing scheduled for peanut executive in salmonella case
(Washington Post)- ALBANY, Ga. — A former peanut executive convicted of shipping tainted Read More »