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OIE chief's downplaying of pandemic risk draws fire

… and more than 50% of gorillas and chimpanzees have died of Ebola virus infection in this decade, he said. "Given what we …
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News Scan for Aug 21, 2014

… Medicine . Outbreaks of filovirus illness, including Ebola virus disease (EVD), are becoming more frequent in …

NEWS SCAN: EU boosts pathogen research, Haiti travel alert, antibiotics in livestock, anthrax in Vietnam, sperm-free mosquitoes, polio in India

… other pathogens such as Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever, Ebola, SARS, plague, and Q fever. Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, …
 

News Scan for Jan 29, 2015

… the CDC revealed that a lab worker had handled a live Ebola virus that was meant to have been inactivated. Dauphin …

Report describes male-to-male Zika sexual transmission

… agency conducted a similar grand challenge during the Ebola outbreak. In its weekly update, Brazil's health …
Lisa Schnirring | News Editor | CIDRAP News
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News Scan for May 02, 2016

CBS report says US firm knowingly sold defective surgical gowns

A report by CBS's 60 Minutes yesterday alleged that the US company Halyard Health for years sold surgical gowns that it knew were defective, putting healthcare workers at risk for bloodborne infections. In a press release today, the company strongly denied the allegations

Yellow fever outbreak control stymied by low vaccine supply, urban spread

… ideal, the two experts said, noting that responses to the Ebola and Zika outbreaks were hindered by bureaucratic …
Natalie Vestin, MPH | News Reporter | CIDRAP
Yellow fever vaccine facility

WHO cites Zika funding gap, rejects call to move Olympics

… May 2015 as part of reforms in the wake of West Africa's Ebola outbreak. It added that plans include reimbursing the …
Lisa Schnirring | News Editor | CIDRAP News
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News Scan for Apr 12, 2017

… that the gowns protected against serious diseases such as Ebola. A 2016 CBS "60 Minutes" investigation said Halyard …

News Scan for Jan 19, 2018

… and on programs that receive mandatory funding, such as Ebola response and Global Health Security Agenda …

News Scan for Jun 24, 2016

… Act (ACA) in US territories, $107 million from unspent Ebola money, and $100 million in unused administrative money …

Senate impasse postpones Zika funding talks till fall

… Republicans have pressed federal officials to tap unused Ebola response money and have asked for spending offsets to …
Lisa Schnirring | News Editor | CIDRAP News
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Protests delay Miami Zika spraying as funding talks continue

… almost depleted the funding allocated from repurposed Ebola money. Singapore sequences to help with global tracking …
Lisa Schnirring | News Editor | CIDRAP News
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News Scan for Jun 04, 2018

… to respond to specific disease threats, such as Zika, Ebola, and H1N1 pandemic influenza. HHS awarded an additional …

News Scan for Sep 05, 2018

… chief executive officer, said in the statement that recent Ebola and Zika outbreaks are a reminder of the critical need …

New AstraZeneca COVID vaccine data ease worries over 2nd-dose delay

… with similar vaccine regimens for other diseases, such as Ebola. An earlier study evaluated a halved first dose …
Lisa Schnirring | News Editor | CIDRAP News
COVID Vaccine Centre sign in UK

Global groups draw up plan to boost routine immunizations amid COVID-19

… vaccine. After all, he says, as the world focused on Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in recent …
Lianna Matt McLernon | News Writer | CIDRAP News
Child gets vaccine in Africa

Easy COVID-19 test tops research priorities as cases climb

Also, researchers report finding the virus in saliva, but not in a small group of babies born to infected moms.

Lisa Schnirring | News Editor | CIDRAP News
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News Scan for Jan 16, 2020

… and social media speculation raised questions about Ebola, but the school said the student had not recently …

US COVID-19 cases surge past 82,000, highest total in world

… was written in 2016, in the wake of the world's largest Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Detail image Date Thu, …
Stephanie Soucheray | News Reporter | CIDRAP News
Surgeons rushing in hallway

WHO warns of long road ahead with COVID-19

… said his work in different outbreak settings, including Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, shows that a high …
Lisa Schnirring | News Editor | CIDRAP News
Physical distancing at window

US hits 1 million COVID-19 cases as states take on testing

… tracers, commonly employed in tuberculosis, measles, and Ebola outbreaks, work with public health departments to …
Stephanie Soucheray | News Reporter | CIDRAP News
Drive-up COVID-19 testing

Gilead, Fauci say NIAID data show remdesivir can aid COVID-19 recovery

… was originally developed as a potential treatment for Ebola but has shown efficacy against SARS-CoV-2—the virus …
Chris Dall | News Reporter | CIDRAP News
Gilead headquarters

China's COVID-19 vaccine shows promise; groups warn about childhood vaccine disruptions

… might be due to the Ad5 vector, a pattern they saw with an Ebola vaccine using the same vector. Researchers noted that …
Lisa Schnirring | News Editor | CIDRAP News
COVID-19 vaccine vials

Trump says US will cut ties with World Health Organization

… agency in the response to infectious diseases such as Ebola, malaria, and tuberculosis, it also works on …
Lisa Schnirring | News Editor | CIDRAP News
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