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What’s superbugging you?

(WashingtonPost) You may be worried about a government shutdown, but I’m not. I’m not worried about a shutdown because we’re all about to die anyway. Superbugs are going to kill us.“Drug-resistant bacteria pose potential catastrophe, CDC warns” was The Post’s headline this week about a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that did indeed Read More »

September 20, 2013
| Filed under Europe, Middle East, North America, and Public Health
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How Far Are We From a Super-Pandemic?

(DiscoveryNews) Fall is flu season and this year, as usual, federal health officials are asking the public to get their annual flu vaccine shot. But scientists say there are much more deadly bugs lurking out there that could someday make the jump from local outbreak to a worldwide super pandemic that could wipe out people Read More »

September 20, 2013
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, and Public Health
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Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – update

(WHO) WHO has been informed of an additional 18 new laboratory-confirmed cases including three deaths with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in Saudi Arabia. The patients are reported from Hafar Al-Batin, Medina and Riyadh. Their ages ranging from three to 75 years old. These cases were announced by the Ministry of Health in Read More »

September 19, 2013
| Filed under Europe, Middle East, North America, and International
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Commentary: Syria’s Real Threat: Biological Weapons

(TheNationalInterest) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has made the fierce debate on intervention in Syria irrelevant with an apparent gaffe suggesting that in order to avoid a strike, Syrian president Bashar al Assad must simply turn over his chemical weapons within a week. Russia, Syria and the United Nations all jumped on this diplomatic Read More »

September 19, 2013
| Filed under Europe, Middle East, North America, Biological Weapons, and Bioterrorism
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CDC warns of complacency on global health issues

(WashingtonTimes) America is facing a “perfect storm of vulnerability” for exposure to infectious diseases, making public health efforts more important than ever, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Tuesday. “There is in some quarters a sense that public health is less and less relevant,” CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said Read More »