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Microorganisms in Microgravity: Spaceflight Experiments Reveal New Properties of Pathogens

February 28, 2013January 25, 2023 Steven Purcell

The International Space Station (ISS), orbiting some 220 miles above earth at a speed of 17,000 miles per hour, is a modern marvel and the

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Creating Connections: How Transportation Data can Predict Pandemics

February 26, 2013January 25, 2023 Katharina Schwan

A historical look at the bubonic plague’s trail of terror across Europe in the 1300s reveals interesting epidemiological data when compared to modern-day pandemics, such

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Outbreak News

Typhoid Emerges in Rebel-held Syria

February 22, 2013January 25, 2023 Lauren Edmundson

Reuters and WHO report that approximately 2500 people have been infected with typhoid in Deir al-Zor, an area of Syria held by rebel forces. With

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Flesh-eating Bacteria in Honduras

February 19, 2013January 25, 2023 Yuki Ara

A sixty-year-old diabetic man was admitted to the Hospital Escuela in Honduras on Feb. 1. He had been suffering from a severe gangrene around his

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Flesh-eating Bacteria in Honduras

February 19, 2013January 25, 2023 Yuki Ara

A sixty-year-old diabetic man was admitted to the Hospital Escuela in Honduras on Feb. 1. He had been suffering from a severe gangrene around his

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Drop in Healthcare-Associated Infections is Good News for U.S. Patients

February 15, 2013January 25, 2023 Lauren Edmundson

A report published by the CDC shows reductions of several types of health care-associated infections (HAIs) over the last five years. The report, called the

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Usutu Virus Highlights Importance of Disease Surveillance Primary tabs

February 14, 2013January 25, 2023 Katharina Schwan

In 2001, the city of Vienna, Austria noticed a strange and sudden disappearance of its Eurasion Blackbird population. Researchers and scientists were equally puzzled by

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Novel Coronavirus: New Cases and Potential for Person to Person Spread

February 13, 2013January 25, 2023 Anna Tomasulo

The U.K. Health Protection Agency has confirmed two cases of the novel coronavirus this week. First, the facts. The first case, confirmed in a press

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Research & Policy

First New Tuberculosis Vaccine Trial in Nearly a Century Yields Disappointing Results

February 12, 2013January 25, 2023 Steven Purcell

The first major study in nearly a century intended to test a new tuberculosis vaccine in infants was ineffective. The ‘MVA85A’ vaccine had been the

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Research & Policy

At Least Nine Polio Workers Killed in Nigeria

February 11, 2013January 25, 2023 David Scales

On Friday, Feb. 8, at least nine young women working on a polio vaccination campaign were targeted and killed by gunmen in two separate incidents

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