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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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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 »

October 4, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Public Health, and Research
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Government to Amend Select Agents and Toxins List

(Global Biodefense) The federal government this week unveiled plans for a new “tiered” designation of pathogens on the Select Agent and Toxins List. The changes require more stringent precautions at scientific facilities holding any of the newly designated “Tier 1″ agents, which include Bacillus anthracis, Burkholderia mallei and pseudomallei, Foot-and-mouth disease virus, Ebola, Marburg virus Read More »

October 4, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Biosafety, and Policy & Initiatives
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New antibiotic cures disease by disarming pathogens, not killing them

(EurekAlert) A new type of antibiotic can effectively treat an antibiotic-resistant infection by disarming instead of killing the bacteria that cause it. Researchers report their findings in the October 2 issue of mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology. “Traditionally, people have tried to find antibiotics that rapidly kill bacteria. But Read More »