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Rare Rodent-Borne Disease Hantavirus, Connected to Two deaths, Third Illness Confirmed

(The Guardian Express) Hantaviruses are negative sense RNA viruses in the Bunyaviridae family. Humans may be infected with this virus through rodent bites, urine, and saliva or contact with rodent waste products. Some of these viruses can be potentially fatal in humans causing hemorrhagic fever and worse. In recent days two deaths have been the  Read More »

Ebola Phone Theft: Man Steals From Quarantined Uganda Hospital Patient, Contracts Virus

(Huffington Post) Don’t do the crime if you can’t contract the virus. A man stole a cell phone from an isolation ward in Uganda two weeks ago, but realized he had more than the police to worry about when he began showing symptoms of Ebola, the Daily Monitor reports. The unidentified, 40-year-old thief took a  Read More »

How Does The Flu Virus Disrupt Our Natural Defense System?

(Medical News Today) According to a study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, researchers at Northwestern University have identified one of the ways the influenza virus disarms our natural defense system. The virus decreases the production of key immune system-regulating proteins in human cells that help attack the invader. In order to do this,  Read More »

Ebola Virus kills everyone in its path: Here is what you need to know

(Standard Digital) In surreal scenes worthy of science fiction from Hollywood coming to the Third World, masked men and women dressed in sterile overalls started quarantining the crowded Gulu district of northern Uganda where 63 cases of the highly contagious and deadly Ebola virus were confirmed. Unchecked Ebola, identified in 1976, can cut through a  Read More »

Fort Detrick scientist who improved anthrax vaccine after 2001 attacks is Heyman finalist

(The Washington Post) Art Friedlander agrees to a morning rendezvous at a McDonald’s parking lot in Frederick. Taking guests to a military post where scientists test vaccines for anthrax is “a pain in the neck,” he says. Friedlander is a senior scientist at Fort Detrick, the brain stem of the military’s biological defense program. The  Read More »

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