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Study: Optimal treatment duration for MRSA-related pneumonia

(EurekAlert) The national practice guideline for treating MRSA-related pneumonia is seven to 21 days. A Henry Ford Hospital study found that effective treatment can be done in half the time. Researchers found that 40 percent of patients were treated for eight to 13 days on a therapy of the antibiotics vancomycin or linezolid, and had  Read More »

Health Ministry Warns on Marburg Fever

(All Africa) The Ministry of Health (MoH) has called on the public to immediately report any signs or suspected cases of Marburg hemorrhagic fever, as steps are taken to prevent the deadly virus. The warning comes at a time when an outbreak of the deadly virus has been confirmed in neighbouring Uganda. On Friday, Uganda’s  Read More »

DHS Releases Guide on Guarding Emergency Crews From Anthrax

(Global Security Newswire) Ensuring the safety of emergency response personnel in the seven days after a release of anthrax into the air of a major urban area is the focus of a paper published last month by the U.S. Homeland Security Department, the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy reported on Thursday. The document  Read More »

Plant-Based Ebola Drug Tests Well on Monkeys

(Global Security Newswire) An experimental Ebola drug has demonstrated the ability in laboratory testing to protect monkeys exposed to the lethal fast-acting hemorrhagic fever virus, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases announced in a Monday press release. None of the rhesus macaques who received the mixture of monoclonal antibodies known as mAbs  Read More »

Crows don’t digest prions, may transport them to other locations

(EurekAlert) Crows fed on prion-infected brains from mice can transmit these infectious agents in their feces and may play a role in the geographic spread of diseases caused by prions, such as chronic wasting disease or scrapie. The new research published Oct. 17 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Kurt VerCauteren from the  Read More »

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