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Paving the way for drug and vaccine development with first controlled malaria infection trial in Africa
(Medical News Today) The innovative PfSPZ Challenge is key to success for speedier testing of new malaria vaccine and drugs. An international research team reports the first-ever clinical trial demonstrating controlled malaria infection in an African nation in the modern era. The study, published online in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (AJTMH) Read More »
- July 30, 2014
- | Filed under Africa, Agents & Toxins, Biotechnology, International, Public Health, and Research
West African countries announce new measures to stop Ebola spread
(The Guardian) Authorities across west Africa have announced a series of measures aimed at stopping the spread of the Ebola virus, which reached a fourth country last week with a death in Lagos, Africa’s most populous city. Nigeria closed and quarantined the hospital where a man died on Friday in the country’s first recorded case Read More »
- July 30, 2014
- | Filed under Africa, Agents & Toxins, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
First case of ebola reported in Africa’s most populous city Lagos
(The Guardian) A man has died of ebola in Lagos, the first confirmed case of the highly contagious and deadly virus in Africa’s most populous metropolis. Patrick Sawyer, a 40-year-old Liberian civil servant, collapsed on arrival in Nigeria’s main airport on Sunday, health officials said. His condition rapidly deteriorated before he died, said Abdulsalami Nasidi, Read More »
- July 28, 2014
- | Filed under Africa, Agents & Toxins, International, and Public Health
C.D.C. Says Tuberculosis Lab, Shut Amid Exposure Scare, Can Continue Its Work
(New York Times) Operations can resume at a government tuberculosis laboratory in Atlanta that was shut down this month as part of a moratorium on handling dangerous microbes, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday. The moratorium, imposed by the agency after two accidents at other laboratories that could have exposed workers to Read More »
- July 28, 2014
- | Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Biosafety, and Research
S.Korea confirms hog foot-and-mouth outbreak
(Reuters) South Korea has confirmed a case of foot-and-mouth disease at a hog farm, the country’s first outbreak in more than three years, the agriculture ministry said in a statement on Thursday.The case comes as Asia’s fourth-largest economy strives to contain a six-month outbreak of bird flu, which has pushed pork prices to multi-year highs Read More »
- July 28, 2014
- | Filed under Asia/Pacific, Agents & Toxins, Agriculture, Countermeasures, and International