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Expert Panel to Consult on Ebola – NYTimes.com

August 7, 2014
| Filed under Agents & Toxins, Countermeasures, and International
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Water Safe To Drink in Ohio’s Fourth Largest City

(Associated Press) Two days after warning some 400,000 people in Ohio and Michigan not to drink their tap water, the mayor of Ohio’s fourth-largest city declared on Monday that the water was now safe and took a sip.The city lifted the advisory after dozens of tests over the weekend showed an algae-induced toxin contaminating Lake Read More »

August 4, 2014
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Biosafety, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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How New York City Simulates an Anthrax Attack

(Gizmodo) Today, New York City is mounting a large-scale simulation of an anthrax attack, the biggest emergency simulation the city has ever staged.

August 4, 2014
| Filed under North America, Bioterrorism, Countermeasures, and Policy & Initiatives
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Ebola outbreak: We’re heading towards a catastrophe, warns top medic

(The Telegraph) The health chief leading the fight against the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has warned it was spiraling out of control towards a “catastrophic” epidemic that could engulf the region. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organisation, said the response to the disease had been “woefully inadequate” and it was “moving Read More »

August 4, 2014
| Filed under Africa, Countermeasures, International, and Public Health
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‘Milestone’ for child malaria vaccine

(BBC News) Experts say the world’s first malaria vaccine could be approved for use in 2015. Reporting in PLOS Medicine, researchers found that for every 1,000 children who received the vaccine, an average of 800 cases of illness could be prevented. And in continuing trials it went on to provide protection some 18 months after Read More »