News & Perspective

Apr 15, 2004

Apr 15, 2004

Smallpox shots didn't harm 10 HIV-infected troops

Apr 15, 2004

(CIDRAP News) – Ten US military personnel were found to be HIV-positive after they received smallpox shots in 2003, but they were not harmed by the vaccine, according to a new online report in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Apr 13, 2004

Apr 13, 2004

Myopericarditis cases complicate Acambis smallpox vaccine trials

Robert Roos
 |
Apr 13, 2004

(CIDRAP News) –British biotechnology company Acambis plc has temporarily stopped recruiting volunteers for clinical trials of the cell-culture smallpox vaccine it is making for the US government because at least three cases of myopericarditis have occurred in one of the trials.

Apr 13, 2004

Indonesia's dengue epidemic exceeds 52,000 cases

Apr 13, 2004

(CIDRAP News) – The dengue fever epidemic in Indonesia totaled 52,013 cases with 603 deaths between Jan 1 and Apr 4, but it has passed its peak in some provinces, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Apr 12, 2004

Apr 12, 2004

Thailand reports two more avian flu outbreaks

Apr 12, 2004

(CIDRAP News) – Two new outbreaks of avian influenza forced Thailand last week to further postpone plans to declare the country free of the disease, according to news service reports.

The latest outbreaks were in Chon Buri province, southeast of Bangkok, and Khon Kaen province, in the northeast, according to the Bangkok Post and Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Apr 09, 2004

Apr 09, 2004

USDA won't let firm test its cattle for BSE

Robert Roos
 |
Apr 09, 2004

(CIDRAP News) – The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has rejected a Kansas beef company's proposal to test all its cattle for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a bid to reopen Asian markets for the company's meat.

Apr 08, 2004

Apr 08, 2004

2003-04 flu season was tougher than last three

Apr 08, 2004

(CIDRAP News) – Looking back on the 2003-04 influenza season, federal health officials say it was rougher than the previous three seasons but not unusual for years when the predominant flu virus is A(H3N2).
Apr 08, 2004

Six West Nile cases in 2003 linked to donated blood

Apr 08, 2004

(CIDRAP News) – More than 800 donated blood units went unused because of West Nile virus (WNV) infection in 2003, but enough infected blood escaped detection to cause six WNV cases in blood recipients, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The six cases in 2003 compare with 23 reported in 2002. The 2002 cases led to the rapid development of nucleic-acid amplification tests (NATs) for WNV in blood.

Apr 07, 2004

Apr 07, 2004

USDA expects BSE rules to cost up to $149 million

Apr 07, 2004

(CIDRAP News) – The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates that recent regulations designed to keep bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) infectivity out of the food supply will cost the beef industry from $110 million to $149 million a year.

Apr 07, 2004

Updated primer on foodborne illness released

Apr 07, 2004

(CIDRAP News) – An updated foodborne illness guide for physicans and nurses was written with an emphasis on "living in the post 9-11 environment," the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in announcing the book's release today.

Apr 05, 2004

Apr 05, 2004

Canada to kill 19 million poultry to stop avian flu

Robert Roos
 |
Apr 05, 2004

(CIDRAP News) – Canadian officials said today that 19 million poultry in southwestern British Columbia's Fraser Valley would be destroyed in a vastly expanded campaign to stop highly pathogenic avian influenza.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization reported today on cases of H7 influenza in two poultry workers who had contact with infected birds in the outbreak area. The two patients both had conjunctivitis and have recovered, the WHO said.

Pages

Content Type

by Topic

by date

by country

by organization

Newsletter Sign-up

Get CIDRAP news and other free newsletters.

Sign up now»

OUR UNDERWRITERS

Unrestricted financial support provided by

Bentson Foundation 3MAccelerate DiagnosticsGilead 
Grant support for ASP provided by


bioMérieux

  Become an underwriter»