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Uganda: CDC Health Projects Improve Disease Detection and Control

(All Africa) The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) global health security (GHS) projects on early disease detection, response and prevention in Uganda and Vietnam have resulted in improvements in those areas. This was revealed in an article published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report released by CDC on January 30. For Read More »

February 12, 2014
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, North America, Agents & Toxins, Biosafety, Countermeasures, and International
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CDC Grand Rounds: Discovering New Diseases via Enhanced Partnership Between Public Health and Pathology Experts

(CDC) Despite advances in public health, medicine, and technology, infectious diseases remain a major source of illness and death worldwide. In the United States alone, unexplained deaths resulting from infectious disease agents have an estimated annual incidence of 0.5 per 100,000 persons aged 1–49 years. Emerging and newly recognized infections, such as hantavirus pulmonary syndrome Read More »

February 12, 2014
| Filed under Agents & Toxins, International, and Public Health
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CDC health projects improve disease detection and control

(The Observer) The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) global health security (GHS) projects on early disease detection, response and prevention in Uganda and Vietnam have resulted in improvements in those areas. This was revealed in an article published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report released by CDC on January 30. For Read More »

February 11, 2014
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, International, and Public Health
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India hails victory over polio, vows to tackle other diseases

(GulfTimes) Indian leaders celebrated the eradication of polio yesterday, reminding doubters that something once thought impossible had been achieved and promising to tackle other diseases which still blight the country. In January, the country of 1.2bn people marked three years without a new case of the crippling virus, which means it will soon be certified Read More »

February 11, 2014
| Filed under South Asia, Agents & Toxins, International, and Public Health
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Avian flu variant stalks Egypt

(Science Codex) Since its first identification in Asia, highly pathogenic avian influenza—H5N1—has caused significant alarm in the scientific community. While the virus’ primary target is birds—tens of millions have already died from it—it is capable of infecting mammals, including humans, causing serious illness and a frightening rate of mortality. In a new study, Matthew Scotch, Read More »