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Emphasis on bioterror can limit efforts needed to fight viruses

(Philly.com) America’s focus on a hypothetical bioterrorism attack is leaving our country more vulnerable to the real threat of a natural spread of deadly viruses. Avian flu recently reappeared in Australia and China. In the Middle East, more than 100 cases of the SARS-like virus MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) have been documented in Saudi Read More »

December 16, 2013
| Filed under North America, Bioterrorism, and Public Health
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Using air transportation data to predict pandemics

(Eurekalert) Computational work conducted at Northwestern University has led to a new mathematical theory for understanding the global spread of epidemics. The resulting insights could not only help identify an outbreak’s origin but could also significantly improve the ability to forecast the global pathways through which a disease might spread.

December 12, 2013
| Filed under Europe, North America, International, Public Health, and Research
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Chikungunya in the French part of the Caribbean isle of Saint Martin

(WorldHealthOrganization) On 6 December 2013, WHO was notified of two laboratory confirmed cases of locally acquired chikungunya disease in the French part of the Caribbean isle of Saint Martin. The other part of the isle is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (Sint Maarten). These two cases were confirmed by Read More »

December 11, 2013
| Filed under Europe, North America, South America, International, and Public Health
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Malaria conference looks to Israel’s past for modern solutions

December 10, 2013
| Filed under International and Public Health
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Emerging H7N9 Virus Not Adapted to Efficient Human-to-Human Transmission | Global Biodefense

December 10, 2013
| Filed under Public Health and Research
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