Flu Scan for Jun 20, 2014
Flu vaccine effectivenessEthics on preliminary researchH5N8 in South Korean poultryShare Tweet Email Print & PDF
Author: Jim Wappes
CDC probes anthrax exposure at its research labs
Lisa Schnirring | Staff Writer | CIDRAP News
Jun 19, 2014
The CDC is monitoring and providing antibiotics to about 75 staffers over Bacillus anthracis concerns.
News Scan for Jun 19, 2014
Dengue fever in SudanUS chikungunya cases doubleDrop in severe WNV casesFlu drug candidate pactShare Tweet Email Print & PDF
WHO: MERS report in Bangladesh looks like false alarm
Robert Roos | News Editor | CIDRAP NewsJun 19, 2014Further testing appears to show that a Bangladeshi case reported 4 days ago was not MERS.Share Tweet Email Print & PDF
COMMENTARY: The case against ‘gain-of-function’ experiments: A reply to Fouchier & Kawaoka
Marc Lipsitch, DPhil, and Alison P. Galvani, PhDJun 19, 2014Is there a unique public health benefit of gain-of-function studies, unachievable by safer means, that outweighs their risk?Share Tweet Email Print & PDF
IDSA updates guidelines on skin and soft-tissue infections
Robert Roos | News Editor | CIDRAP NewsJun 19, 2014The IDSA stressed that many infections heal on their own or don’t need antibiotics.Share Tweet Email Print & PDF
News Scan for Jun 18, 2014
Polio vaccination in SyriaPreparedness and the ACAShare Tweet Email Print & PDF
Avian Flu Scan for Jun 18, 2014
H5N1 death in IndonesiaH7N9 vaccine in animalsShare Tweet Email Print & PDF
With MERS threat, Morocco advises against Hajj
Robert Roos | News Editor | CIDRAP NewsJun 18, 2014Morocco’s health minister advises Muslims in his country not to go on pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia.Share Tweet Email Print & PDF
West Africa Ebola outbreak grows by 47 cases, 14 deaths
Lisa Schnirring | Staff Writer | CIDRAP NewsJun 18, 2014It is now the largest, deadliest Ebola outbreak on record.Share Tweet Email Print & PDF
Caribbean chikungunya cases top 170,000
Lisa Schnirring | Staff Writer | CIDRAP NewsJun 16, 2014Cases of the mosquito-borne disease in the region grew by more than 35,000 in 1 week.Share Tweet Email Print & PDF
Bangladesh has first MERS case
Robert Roos | News Editor | CIDRAP NewsJun 16, 2014Bangladesh reported its first MERS-CoV case, and Saudi Arabia has another case, raising its total to 703.Share Tweet Email Print & PDF
News Scan for Jun 13, 2014
California pertussis epidemicMediterranean measlesShare Tweet Email Print & PDF
Food Outbreak Scan for Jun 13, 2014
Salmonella and bearded dragonsAlert over chia powder productsE coli clover sproutbreakShare Tweet Email Print & PDF
Over 25% of recent Saudi MERS patients were health workers
Robert Roos | News Editor | CIDRAP NewsJun 13, 2014The WHO offers new info on 402 Saudi MERS cases reported in the past 2 months.Share Tweet Email Print & PDF