Paramedics bury a man who died of the Nipah virus in Kozhikode, southern India, in May 2018. There is no vaccine for the virus, which can cause raging fevers, convulsions and vomiting, [Read more]
The 2018 review of the World Health Organization’s Blueprint list of priority diseases occurred February 6-7, 2018. Given their potential to cause a public health emergency and the absence of efficacious medical [Read more]
An interdisciplinary research team from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) and three groups within the National Institutes of Health reports [Read more]
Low-incidence, high-consequence pathogens | Could a computer-designed protein protect soldiers? | Fort Detrick’s $10 million fire | Syria chemical mission may suffer fallout from Ukraine crisis | NIH opens research hospital to [Read more]
What began as a summer internship project designed for an undergraduate student evolved into a one-year study of one of the deadliest, but little known viruses. Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute [Read more]
A 100% genetic match for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) has been discovered in an insect-eating bat in close proximity to the first known case of the disease in Saudi Arabia. The [Read more]
Officials from the Indian Council of Medical Research last week announced completion of the nation’s first Bio-Safety Level 4 (BSL 4) high containment laboratory. The new biodefense lab is located on the [Read more]
Researchers from the Imperial College London and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have identified a simple new method to better assess the risks posed by emerging zoonotic viruses. Estimates [Read more]
Research led by a team from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has identified a protein with broad virus-fighting properties that potentially could be used as a weapon against deadly human [Read more]
The Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate (DHS S&T) is seeking new technical efforts for field deployable detection systems that can rapidly identify agricultural pathogens of concern. Detection of zoonotic, [Read more]
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