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African experts meet over biosafety protocol

(Africa Science News) Delegates from 15 African countries signatories to the Cartagena Protocol are meeting Tuesday in Pretoria, South Africa to review and discuss matters touching on the implementation of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The meeting is a preparatory session for the sixth Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties  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 »

CDC: U.S. is at greater risk than ever from West Nile Virus

(Examiner) The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says this last year’s mild winter and wet spring are contributing factors for the worst West Nile Virus outbreak since the disease was first detected in the United States in 1999. As of August 14, at least 693 cases reported across the nation, including 28 deaths, more cases  Read More »

Burning Question: Do Germs Spread on Airport Security Lines?

(The Wall Street Journal) We live in a germy world, says William Schaffner, infectious-disease specialist and chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tenn. “If we went down to Times Square and began culturing people’s noses, something like 10% to 20% of them carry the antibiotic-resistant  Read More »

New book tells story of 10-year-old malaria project

(EurekAlert) Few infectious diseases can rival malaria’s ability to kill and cripple. Each year the disease causes hundreds of millions of people to be sickened and more than a million — mostly African children under the age of five — die. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the announcement of the genome sequence of  Read More »

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