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Dual-Purpose Vaccines Effective Against Rabies and Ebola

GlobalBiodefense: The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, this week announced a new license agreement aimed at advancing dual-purpose candidate vaccines to protect against rabies and Ebola viruses.

October 20, 2014
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Public Health
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Analysis: Bat Influenza Viruses and the Risk to Humans

GlobalBiodefense: Characterization of Uncultivable Bat Influenza Virus Using a Replicative Synthetic Virus. A study published on October 2nd in PLOS Pathogens addresses the question of whether or not bat flu exists based on detailed molecular and virological characterization.

October 9, 2014
| Filed under North America, Public Health, and Research
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Newly Vigilant, U.S. Will Screen Fliers for Ebola

NewYorkTimes: Federal health officials will require temperature checks for the first time at five major American airports for people arriving from the three West African countries hardest hit by the deadly Ebola virus.

October 9, 2014
| Filed under North America and Public Health
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Death of Thomas Eric Duncan in Dallas Fuels Alarm Over Ebola

NewYorkTimes: The death Wednesday morning of Mr. Duncan, 42, the Liberian man at the center of a widening public health scare and the first person with a case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States, heightened anxiety and fear here

October 9, 2014
| Filed under North America and Public Health
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Ebola Help for Sierra Leone Is Nearby, but Delayed on the Docks

TheNewYorkTimes: For the past 2 months, a shipping container packed with protective gowns, gloves, stretchers, mattresses and other medical supplies needed to help fight Sierra Leone’s exploding Ebola epidemic.