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South Asia: Hot spot for cross-border diseases

(The Times of India) In South Asia, one of the world’s most densely populated regions, deadly diseases from animals, like the nipah virus, brucellosis, anthrax and even avian flu, cross international boundaries with ease. A fruit bat on the India-Bangladesh border could spread the deadly nipah virus when it licks the juice of the date  Read More »

Indonesia reports 9th birdflu death this year

(Xinhua) A 37-year Indonesian man has died of avian influenza in Yogyakarta province of Indonesia, bringing the total fatality to 9 this year, health ministry said on its website on Sunday. The man from Prambanan of Sleman district died on July 30 after being treated in hospitals, the ministry said. Two laboratory tests confirmed that  Read More »

Ebola a potential bio-terror weapon

(The Observer) The dramatic nature of the Ebola outbreak in Kibaale district raises concerns about the cryptic intersection between global security and public health disasters. This is so because Ebola could very well pose an unprecedented frontier of bioterrorism, because it is complicated, with nonspecific symptoms making its generic diagnosis difficult, or even sometimes impossible.  Read More »

Test Results Show Unprecedented Achievement for Marburg Drug Candidate

(Benzinga) A new study testing a drug candidate to treat Marburg virus demonstrated significant survival rates up to four days after exposure to the disease. Referred to as AVI-7288, the drug is a post-exposure prophylactic targeting the Marburg virus which may cause hemorrhagic fever, a severe, life-threatening disease that exhibits fever and bleeding. The development  Read More »

CDC advises travelers to Uganda to take steps to prevent Ebola

(Examiner) In light of the current outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in western Uganda, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel notice offering prevention measures to avoid contracting the rare, but deadly virus. According to the CDC travel notice issued Wednesday, as of Tuesday, July 31, the current situation in Uganda is the death  Read More »

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