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New Vaccine Piloted During DRC Ebola Outbreak

May 29, 2018March 23, 2022 Lindsay Bonesteel

  Less than one week after cases of Ebola were confirmed to have reached an urban area the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), health authorities,

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Possible Vaccine for Gonorrhea Super-Bug

May 29, 2018March 23, 2022 Kristy Leker

  In late March 2018, a patient in the United Kingdom came down with the first known case of a strain of gonorrhea resistant to

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The Threat of Antibiotic Resistant Gonorrhea

May 24, 2018March 23, 2022 Natalia Ciesielska

  Gonorrhea is the second most commonly diagnosed sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the world [3]. It is usually easy to treat; however, its recent

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Dengue Fever Outbreak on Easter Island

May 24, 2018March 23, 2022 Emily Wolfson

  As of April 29, 2018, 13 cases of dengue fever have been confirmed on Easter Island [1]. The cases are assumed to have been

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Clusters Across the Globe Show Severe Prevalence Rates of HTLV-1

May 24, 2018March 23, 2022 Jackie Sheridan

  Worldwide attention has recently been brought to the disease called Human T-cell leukemia virus type 1, or HTLV-1. News outlets have been reporting that

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Summer Series on Neglected Tropical Diseases: Shedding Light on NTDs

May 24, 2018March 23, 2022 Lauren Goodwin

  The chances are that if you turn on your television or scan your local news sources, you will hear about infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS,

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New Pig Virus Poses Threat for Transmission to Humans

May 24, 2018March 23, 2022 Lauren Goodwin

  Researchers at Ohio State University, and Utrecht University in the Netherlands are collaborating to better understand the porcine deltacoronavirus (PDCoV) and its possible public

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FY2018: The Opposite of a Skinny Budget

April 11, 2018March 23, 2022 Kristy Leker

  To prevent a third government shutdown and end the debate over government spending that started in October, Congress recently passed a spending bill of

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Source Identified for the Deadliest Listeria Outbreak in History

April 10, 2018March 23, 2022 Jackie Sheridan

  South Africa has experienced 978 lab-confirmed cases of listeria poisoning since January 2017 [1], in what the United Nations has declared the largest listeria

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Vancouver Island Puzzled by Rare Cholera Outbreak

April 2, 2018March 23, 2022 Jackie Sheridan

  Four human cases of cholera have been identified on Vancouver Island, an island on the western coast of British Columbia, Canada[1]. The outbreak was

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