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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on 9 Nov that an emergency use authorization (EUA) has been issued for a rapid, single-use test for the detection of Ebola virus ( Zaire ebolavirus ). This [Read more] -
The latest outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the worst in the country’s history, the health ministry says. The health ministry said it had recorded 201 deaths from the [Read more] -
As dental professionals are an integral part of the healthcare community, they should be educated regarding the medical and oral manifestations of the diseases that result from a bioterrorist attack or pandemic event. Dentist can [Read more] -
Current progress and future opportunities in applications of bioinformatics for biodefense and pathogen detection: report from the Winter Mid-Atlantic Microbiome Meet-up, College Park, MD, January 10, 2018 This article was originally published in Microbiome and [Read more] -
Two Live Attenuated Vaccines against Recent Low–and Highly Pathogenic H7N9 Influenza Viruses Are Safe and Immunogenic in Ferrets This paper was originally published in Vaccines and is being distributed by Global Biodefense under the terms [Read more] -
Across Africa, diseases transmitted by bloodsucking insects – including ticks, fleas and sandflies as well as mosquitoes – are emerging and re-emerging, and epidemics are reported more frequently than before. Evidence is mounting that climate [Read more] -
From African Sleeping Sickness to Zika, a new journal article presents the evidence for seasonality in 69 infectious diseases. Micaela Martine, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, gathered data [Read more]
