China Reports First Death From Novel Coronavirus Outbreak in Wuhan
Chinese state media on Saturday reported the first known death from a new virus that has infected dozens of people ...
Archives: Headlines
Attacks on Health Care Monthly News Brief
At least 424 attacks on health care occurred in the DRC between January and November 2019. Numbers of reported incidents increased ...
The Future Biosecurity Implications of Thousands of Samples Taken During Outbreaks
We learned from the 2014–16 West Africa Ebola outbreaks that during the emergency, the future biosecurity implications of of sample ...
An Ancient Legend Could Provide a New Weapon in Fight Against Deadly Bacteria
Five miles from the border with the Republic of Ireland, there’s a longstanding belief among parishioners that the earth Father ...
Measles May Have Emerged 1500 Years Earlier Than Thought
Measles, which killed an estimated 142,000 people in 2017, is one of the most infectious human diseases. But when, where, ...
How Devastating is PEDv in the Pig Industry?
The Director of Animal Health with Hylife says the emotional experience of dealing with Porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus (PEDv) is ...
PBS Filmmaker Q&A on Covering Ebola Response in North Kivu
When Ben C. Solomon, FRONTLINE’s filmmaker-in-residence, went to North Kivu province to document the Ebola outbreak, he was drawn to ...
Outbreak of Listeria Infections Linked to Hard-boiled Eggs
CDC, public health and regulatory officials in several states, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are investigating a ...
Rebuilding After Ebola: Sierra Leone Asks Idris Elba to Serve as “Brand Ambassador”
Film actor Idris Elba and his wife were recently granted honorary citizenship in his late father’s homeland of Sierra Leone ...
Ebola Patient Was Not Reinfected: Killed by Resurgence of Virus Lurking in Immune System
There was alarm last week among experts when the first reports came through that a patient had died after catching ...
Getting to Zero Ebola Cases: Better Communication to Overcome Community Mistrust
Ebola-specific terms like EDS (“safe and dignified burial”) and “swab” are in French or English and are not consistently translated and explained ...
Henry Eigelsbach, Microbiologist Known for Tularemia Research, Dies at 100
Renowned microbiologist Henry “Hank” Eigelsbach died of natural causes on December 6, 2019 at the age of 100. The former ...
Key Lawmaker Calls for Halt to BioDetection 21 Program
Citing “serious concerns” about unproven technology rushed into use by the Trump administration to detect biological attacks, the chairwoman of ...
Korea Biomedical Review: The Essential Nature of Biosurveillance
The Korea Biomedical Review met recently with Professor Jennifer B. Nuzzo of Johns Hopkins University during Biosurveillance Symposium 2019 to ...
Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Analytics for Biodefence: Implications for Threat Assessment And Biosurveillance
The use of AI and big data analytics for the purpose of intelligence is a new discipline of information extraction ...
Congo Authorities Say Ebola Survivor Falls Ill Second Time
An Ebola survivor has fallen ill with the disease for a second time in eastern Congo, the Congolese health authorities ...
Ground Breaking Typhoid Vaccine Reduces Infections by 80 Percent in Nepal
A “ground breaking” typhoid vaccine has reduced cases of the bacterial disease by more than 80 percent in a trial ...
African Swine Fever Kills More Than 20 Wild Boar in Poland
An outbreak of African swine fever in Poland near the German border has killed 21 wild boar, Agriculture Minister Jan ...
Samoa Measles Outbreak: Death Toll Rises To 53, Mostly Children
More than 3,700 cases of measles have been recorded in the islands' population of about 200,000, with 198 new cases ...
OPCW Defends Syria Attack Conclusions After Document Leaks
The head of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons this week publicly defended the agency's conclusion that poison ...
