Recent News

By Category: Public Health

New Video: Researchers Tracking Ebola in the Congo

(Global Biodefense) A new video highlights National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) scientists and their collaborators as they search for Ebola and other emerging viruses in a remote jungle in the Republic of the Congo. Researchers hope to learn how to prevent these viruses from causing infection and death in animals and humans.

October 5, 2012
| Filed under Africa, North America, International, and Public Health
Share

Another patient from Choa Saidan Shah confirmed for CCHF

(The International News) A 45-year-old male patient, undergoing treatment at the Holy Family Hospital (HFH) since September 27 after being suspected as a patient of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), has been confirmed positive for the infection by the National Institute of Health, Islamabad. The hospital administration, however, claimed that the patient is out of danger Read More »

October 5, 2012
| Filed under Africa, North America, Agents & Toxins, International, and Public Health
Share

SARS added to US disease ‘select agent’ list – CTV News

SARS added to US disease 'select agent' listCTV NewsThe addition, which the CDC first proposed over two years ago, was given legal status this week when the revised select agent list was published in the U.S. Federal Registry. The timing of the move is both ironic and co-incidental. SARS has faded from …

October 5, 2012
| Filed under Public Health
Share

U.S-Acquired Human Rabies with Symptom Onset and Diagnosis Abroad, 2012

(CDC) On July 8, 2012, a U.S. resident was admitted to a hospital in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for evaluation of right arm spasticity, anxiety, and malaise. By the next day, the patient had become comatose following a period of agitation. On July 31, he died. Investigators from CDC, state, and local health departments determined Read More »

October 5, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, and Public Health
Share

Chloroquine makes comeback to combat malaria

(EurekAlert) Malaria-drug monitoring over the past 30 years has shown that malaria parasites develop resistance to medicine, and the first signs of resistance to the newest drugs have just been observed. At the same time, resistance monitoring at the University of Copenhagen shows that the previously efficacious drug chloroquine is once again beginning to work Read More »