(CIDRAP News) – With tougher security requirements set to take effect next April, few state public health laboratories plan to maintain stocks of certain pathogens considered most tempting to bioterrorists, according to the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) and officials with state labs.
(CIDRAP News) – An outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever has grown to 20 cases in western Uganda, and 10 people in two of Uganda's central districts have contracted Ebola hemorrhagic fever, the World Health Organization (WHO) said recently.
(CIDRAP News) – Federal health officials are inviting the public to weigh in on whether research on H5N1 avian influenza viruses, including strains modified in the lab to make them more transmissible, is risky enough to require new safety regulations and precautions.
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Recent Literature
Albarino CF, Shoemaker T, Khristova ML, et al. Genomic analysis of filoviruses associated with four viral hemorrhagic fever outbreaks in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2012. Virology 2013 Aug 1;442(2):97-100
Albarino CG, Uebelhoer LS, Vincent JP, et al. Development of a reverse genetics system to generate recombinant Marburg virus derived from a bat isolate. Virology 2013 Nov;446(1-2):230-7
Carroll SA, Towner JS, Sealy TK, et al. Molecular evolution of viruses of the family Filoviridae based on 97 whole-genome sequences. J Virol 2013 Mar;87(5):2608-16
Gilsdorf A, Morgan D, Leitmeyer K. Guidance for contact tracing of cases of Lassa fever, Ebola or Marburg haemorrhagic fever on an airplane: results of a European expert consultation. BMC Public Health 2012 Nov 21;12:1014
Madrid PB, Chopra S, Manger ID, et al. A systematic screen of FDA-approved drugs for inhibitors of biological threat agents. PLoS One 2013 Apr 5;8(4):e60579
