Contagion Live reports that the US Food and Drug Administration declared war on antimicrobial resistance last week, announcing a comprehensive plan to […]
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Sep 2018
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Sep 2018
Scientific American reported some positive news last week from the front lines of the heroin crisis: Half as many people […]
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Sep 2018
What’s new: Scientists announced Wednesday they have successfully developed three key advances toward a possible pandemic flu vaccine — and it’s […]
Sep 2018
The Weekly Observer reports that deadly bird flu H7N9 is spreading all over the world, due in part because China […]
Sep 2018
If you share our concern that Ebola could once again take center stage in the story of global pandemics, you’ll […]
Read More… from Why Health Officials Are Afraid the Ebola Outbreak in the Congo Could Get Way Worse
Aug 2018
The routine exchange of important vaccine development material may have become a victim of the trade war between the U.S. […]
Aug 2018
CDC has updated guidance to assist state and local jurisdictions with their Budget Period 1 Supplement medical countermeasure (MCM) operational […]
Aug 2018
Being purists, the CDC is not calling the current upswing in measles cases an “outbreak”—defined as three cases in an area […]
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Aug 2018
One hundred years after the Great Influenza pandemic of 1918, global health leadership stands at a crossroads. The United States […]
Read More… from Three reasons the US is not ready for the next pandemic
Aug 2018
Despite the fact that the highly contagious disease is vaccine preventable, measles infections continue to spring up throughout the United […]
Read More… from CDC Reports Over 100 Cases of Measles Across 21 States