A team of scientists from The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) has developed a novel method to accurately predict dengue fever outbreaks several weeks before they occur.
The new method, known as PRISM — PRedicting Infectious Disease Scalable Model — extracts relationships between clinical, meteorological Continue reading
French health authorities today announced a 65-year old citizen is hospitalized in intensive care with an acute respiratory infection after having contracted the emerging novel coronavirus (nCoV).
Where or how the patient contracted nCoV is still being investigated, but the Health Ministry reports the Frenchman fell ill in April after returning Continue reading
The U.S. Army this week issued a formal notice seeking commercial sources with the capability to develop and produce systems for the Joint Biological Tactical Detection System (JBTDS), Biological Warfare Agent (BWA) detection, collection, and identification hardware and software. Continue reading
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced as of May 6, 2013 it had been notified of a total of 30 nCoV confirmed cases, including 18 deaths.
Within the past five days, officials from Saudi Arabia have confirmed 13 new cases of the novel coronavirus (nCov), several of which are clustered in a healthcare facility in the eastern part of the country. Continue reading
Scientists from Erasmus University in the Netherlands have designed and evaluated a set of molecular assays that they say are a sensitive and good alternative for conventional diagnostic methods and can produce results in one day without the need for additional equipment. The results were recently published in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics.
The investigators report on a set of real-time Continue reading
The National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (DMID) has issued a solicitation for data management services to support the Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (CEIRS).
CEIRS is an integrated network of centers designed to bring together multidisciplinary Continue reading
The Chinese National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) yesterday notified the World Health Organization of an additional four laboratory-confirmed cases of human infection with avian influenza A(H7N9) virus and one additional death.
This brings the total as of April 23, 2013 to 108 laboratory-confirmed H7N9 cases Continue reading
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is seeking potential sources to support the Cooperative Biological Engagement Program (CBEP) in a restructure of its Field Epidemiology training program through the creation of a measurable, goal-oriented framework that is internationally recognized and endorsed.
An established, leading Continue reading