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The Last, Best Chance for Global Polio Eradication?

(CSIS) After 25 years of remarkable achievements and sometimes harrowing setbacks, a successful conclusion to global polio eradication could finally be within reach. In late April, the Global Vaccine Summit in Abu Dhabi released the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), a promising new six-year strategy to win the polio “endgame.”

May 2, 2013
| Filed under North America and Public Health
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Sixty percent of CBRN medical countermeasures not approved for children

Only 60 percent of CBRN medical countermeasures are approved children, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. The Strategic National Stockpile contains medical countermeasures that are not approved for children, such as ciprofloxacin, a drug for the treatment … Read More…

May 2, 2013
| Filed under Public Health
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CDC Test Now Available for Emerging H7N9 Influenza

(GlobalBiodefense) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control is making available diagnostic materials to specifically detect the new avian influenza A (H7N9) virus found in China. The emerging reassortant virus has to date been confirmed in 119 humans, 22 of which have died.

May 1, 2013
| Filed under North America, Biotechnology, and Public Health
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Foot-and-Mouth Hits Tibet, Bird Flu Still Spreading

(TheEpochTimes) Tibet is the latest province in China to be struck by concentrated outbreaks of type A foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in pigs and cattle. In the past three months, the virus was reported in Guangdong Province, with nearly 1,000 pigs slaughtered in late February, followed by Qinghai and Xinjiang provinces, where cows were culled.

April 29, 2013
| Filed under Asia/Pacific and Public Health
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Alarm raised on Dengue Fever cases at the Coast – The Standard Digital News (press release) (blog)

Alarm raised on Dengue Fever cases at the CoastThe Standard Digital News (press release) (blog)The researchers said that 56 samples were negative and disclosed that warm weather conditions in Coast have spurred the breeding of the mosquito spreading the diseases, which can be fatal and hemorrhagic in severe cases. Researchers from Kemri-CDC …and more »