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By Category: Countermeasures

New route to identify drugs that can fight bacterial infections

(AAAS EurekAlert) About 100 drugs already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for other purposes can also prevent the growth of certain bacterial pathogens inside human cells, including those that cause Legionnaires’ disease, brucellosis, and Mediterranean spotted fever. The findings, published in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Read More »

July 30, 2014
| Filed under Countermeasures and Research
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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
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Previously uncontacted Peruvian Indians ‘could carry flu back to tribe’

(The Telegraph) Seven members of a previously uncontacted Peruvian Amazonian tribe had to be treated for the flu after fleeing into Brazil to escape violent attacks, raising fears that the virus could spread to their isolated community.

July 28, 2014
| Filed under South America, Countermeasures, International, and Public Health
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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
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China bubonic plague death: Town of 30,000 placed in quarantine after man dies sparking ‘Black Death’ outbreak fears

(The Independent) An entire Chinese town of 30,000 people has been quarantined off from the rest of the country after a man living in a nearby village died from bubonic plague. Police have now had the old town of Yumen city in Gansu province sealed off for more than a week, the Xinhua state media Read More »