Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Over 1,100 "Incidents" (aka escapes) with dangerous "Select Agents" were reported in the US during 2008-2012/ USA Today

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Just in case you thought that CDC and federal regulators had things under control regarding research on microorganisms that can be used in b...
Sunday, August 17, 2014

Legal Ramifications of Declaring a Public Health Emergency

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I noticed that 2 old posts of mine about the laws and regulations governing public health emergencies were getting a lot of attention this w...
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Sunday, August 10, 2014

Ebola therapeutics from China, Canada, Germany, US: promising but without human testing for Ebola, though the last article suggests already-licensed drugs may be useful

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Virus Res.  2014 Jun 12;189C:254-261. doi: 10.1016/j.virusres.2014.06.001.  A highly immunogenic fragment derived from Zaire Ebola virus...
Friday, August 8, 2014

International Travel: 679 people per day enter the US from Nigeria/ NY Times

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According to the NYT,  there are "243,000 international travelers to United States airports each day... including an average of 679 fro...

Medicins Sans Frontieres Ebola Updates: more detail than I have found anywhere else

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This is the site where you will get up to date information on the Ebola outbreak from MSF, which is providing the most detailed information...

Ebola Opinion / Nass

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Despite an estimated 69% death rate, Medicins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders or MSF) doctors and nurses have not come down with the...
Monday, August 4, 2014

Of several potential Ebola vaccines, here is one

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Go to: ABSTRACT This 2008 article (available free in full text here ) described a very promising Ebola vaccine from USAMRIID: ...
Sunday, August 3, 2014

Many unlicensed, experimental Ebola treatments and vaccines exist: Dr. Brantly can give informed consent to use them

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Since Ebola first was identified in 1976, there have been at least a dozen outbreaks and at least 5 strains have been identified. Serologic ...
Friday, July 18, 2014

Inspector General Reports: Biosecurity at Multiple Agencies (including CDC and NIH) a Joke/ USAToday

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From USAT: ... CDC has not responded to USA TODAY's requests, under the Freedom of Information Act, filed in June 2012 , for records...

What happened to the last safety czar you appointed? Asked who this was, the CDC Director didn't know/ Reuters

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I am posting the entire Reuters story below. Is it funny, pathetic, or both? CDC Director Tom Frieden promised Congress to appoint a seni...
Monday, July 14, 2014

CDC says there were 269 separate, reported incidents of lost or escaped 'select agent' microbes in 2010/ Reuters

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Not to put too fine a point on it, but today's Reuters story has even more bad news on safety at our highest containment labs: Accor...

CDC scientists' lack of understanding of anthrax is shocking and terrifying

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The WaPo has published the  full text of the CDC report  on its anthrax mishap last month, with mention of a number of other, almost ident...