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Latest News  

Jan 25
New Item NEWS SCAN: BARDA broad-spectrum antibiotic contract, PFCs and immune response, Listeria at salmon plant

Aug 30
New Item NEWS SCAN: Black Death pathogen sequenced, egg safety gaps, rotavirus vaccine benefit

Jun 15
New Item Panel calls for refining, paring select-agent list

May 31
New Item NEWS SCAN: Plague in New Mexico, cholera in 3 countries, measles update

Feb 25
New Item NEWS SCAN: Plague in Oregon, live malaria vaccine

Feb 24
New Item NEWS SCAN: Lab-acquired plague, XDR-TB in China, H5N1 outbreaks, foodborne investigation methods, high-dose flu vaccine

Sep 7, 2010
New Item NEWS SCAN: Plague and climate change, airport scare, Tamiflu and toddlers, flu conference, H1N1 vaccine uptake

Aug 30, 2010
New Item HHS funds development of drug for plague, tularemia

Oct 8, 2008
New Item Wildlife group lists diseases that global warming may spur

Oct 16, 2007
New Item US funds work on drugs for plague, tularemia, anthrax

Mar 30, 2007
New Item Study: Drug-resistant plague may signal health threat

Dec 11, 2006
New Item CDC rates hospital bioterrorism preparedness

Oct 19, 2006
New Item Suspected plague killed 42 in Congo, WHO says

Jun 26, 2006
New Item Aid group seeks help fighting plague in Congo

Jun 14, 2006
New Item Suspected plague kills 100 in Congo, WHO says

Aug 19, 2005
New Item Research sheds light on plague agent and potential vaccine

May 27, 2005
New Item Plague outbreak highlighted ongoing problem in Africa

Apr 21, 2005
New Item US, UK, Canada to jointly test plague vaccines

Mar 15, 2005
New Item WHO reports 130 suspected plague cases in Congo

Mar 4, 2005
New Item 57 plague cases found in Congo, WHO reports

Mar 2, 2005
New Item Congo's plague outbreak smaller than initially feared

Feb 18, 2005
New Item Pneumonic plague outbreak in Congo sparks WHO response

Sep 15, 2004
New Item Plague organism shed genes as it grew more lethal

Aug 2, 2004
New Item Ongoing plague outbreak reported in Congo

Mar 25, 2004
New Item Vaccine prevents flea-borne plague in mice

Jan 17, 2003
New Item Report of missing plague specimens in Texas was false alarm

May 2, 2002
New Item Single gene change enabled plague bacterium to ride in fleas

      
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New Item Plague epidemic in the Kingdom of Naples, 1656-8
Letter from Emerg Infect Dis, published online Dec 28, 2011

 
New Item Phenotypical characterization of Mongolian Yersinia pestis strains
From Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis, published online Oct 24, 2011

 
New Item A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death
Letter from Nature, published online Oct 12, 2011

 
New Item Resistance to plague among black-tailed prairie dog populations
From Vector-Borne Zoonotic Dis, published online Sep 16, 2011

 
New Item Global discovery of small RNAs in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis identifies Yersinia-specific small, noncoding RNAs required for virulence
From Proc Natl Acad Sci, published online Aug 29, 2011

 
New Item Targeted enrichment of ancient pathogens yielding the pPCP1 plasmid of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death
From Proc Natl Acad Sci, published online Aug 29, 2011

 
New Item Resistance to Yersinia pestis infection decreases with age in B10.T(6R) mice
From Infect Immun, published online Aug 22, 2011

 
New Item Seasonal abundance of plague vector Xenopsylla brasiliensis from rodents captured in three habitat types of periurban suburbs of Harare, Zimbabwe
From Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis, published Aug 8, 2011

 
New Item Transmission shifts underlie variability in population responses to Yersinia pestis infection
From Jul 25, 2011, PLoS ONE

 
New Item Prevention of pneumonic plague in mice, rats, guinea pigs and non-human primates with clinical grade rV10, rV10-2 or F1-V vaccines
From Vaccine, published online Jul 16, 2011

 
New Item Annual seroprevalence of Yersinia pestis in coyotes as predictors of interannual variation in reports of human plague cases in Arizona, United States
From Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis, published online Jul 14, 2011

 
New Item Transmission dynamics of primary pneumonic plague in the USA
From Epidemiol Infect, published online Jul 7, 2011

 
New Item Investigation of a researcher's death due to septicemic Plague
Letter from Jun 30, 2011, N Engl J Med

 
New Item Yersinia pestis in small rodents, Mongolia
Letter from Emerg Infect Dis, published online Jun 22, 2011

 
New Item Nonlinear effect of climate on plague during the third pandemic in China
From Proc Natl Acad Sci, published online Jun 6, 2011

 
New Item Recombinant (F1 + V) vaccine protects cynomolgus macaques against pneumonic plague
From Vaccine, published online May 12, 2011

 
New Item Lessons learned about pneumonic plague diagnosis from 2 outbreaks, Democratic Republic of the Congo
From Emerg Infect Dis, published online Apr 25, 2011

 
New Item Notes from the field: two cases of human plague--Oregon, 2010
From Feb 25, 2011, MMWR

 
New Item Fatal laboratory-acquired infection with an attenuated Yersinia pestis strain--Chicago, Illnois, 2009
From Feb 25, 2011, MMWR

 
New Item A live attenuated strain of Yersinia pestis KIM as a vaccine against plague
From Vaccine, published online Feb 12, 2011