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Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Threatens To Expand To Uganda, WHO Says.

The New York Times (9/28, McNeil) reported the World Health Organization announced Thursday that the risk of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo spreading to Uganda is “very high.” Indeed, “the outbreak already is nearing Uganda.” The...

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Researchers Use Bacteria To Fight Cancer.

HealthDay (9/30, Thompson) reported that “a potentially dangerous bacteria appears to target malignant cells and could provide a new means of fighting cancer.” HealthDay added that “when injected into a tumor, Clostridium novyi-NT appears to both attack...

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First Human Case Of Rat Hepatitis E Confirmed In Hong Kong.

USA Today (9/28, Molina) reported the world’s “first case of a human contracting rat hepatitis” has been confirmed in Hong Kong, where a 56-year-old man “had abnormal test results following a liver transplant.” Further testing confirmed the Hong Kong res...

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A Century After Flu Pandemic, Threat Of Disease Outbreak Worries Experts.

USA Today (9/28, Rice) reported that on the 100th anniversary of the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed as many as 50 million people and infected as many as 500 million, experts are cautioning about the potential for a similar occurrence today. Leading heal...

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Giving Rifaximin After Standard Antibiotics May Reduce Recurrence Of Clostridium Difficile Infection, Research Suggests.

MedPage Today (9/28, Swift) reported that “a meta-analysis of two randomized controlled trials” suggested that “giving the rafamycin antibiotic rifaximin (Xifaxan, Salix) after standard antibiotics may reduce the recurrence of Clostridium difficile infec...

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Tennessee’s West Nile Cases Expected To Rise.

Reporting on the threat of West Nile virus in Tennessee, the Tennessean (9/29, Timms) said the state has confirmed 151 human cases of West Nile virus since 2010, including nine cases this year, according to state Department of Health data. The tally for...

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Mapp Bio Secures Federal Contract For Sudan Virus Therapy.

The San Diego Union-Tribune (9/29, Fikes) reported Mapp Biopharmaceutical, which has developed an antibody therapy for Ebola, has won a $14.8 million federal contract to create a similar treatment for the related Sudan virus. Mapp Bio “has options for an...

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Surf Park In Texas Closed For Testing Following Death Of Visitor From “Brain-Eating Amoeba.”

The AP (9/30) reported that a 29-year-old man from New Jersey died earlier this month from Naegleria fowleri, often called a “brain-eating amoeba,” after visiting BSR Cable Park’s Surf Resort in Waco, Texas. The resort has been closed and is now being te...

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Accelerated Approval Of Gene-Silencing Drug Now In Doubt.

Reuters (9/27, Joseph, Maddipatla) reports Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced Thursday that it may delay plans to seek accelerated FDA approval for its gene-silencing drug givosiran until after full data from its trial comes out early next year. The...

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Hepatitis A Outbreak In West Virginia’s Cabell County Past Its Peak, Officials Say.

The AP (9/27) reports West Virginia’s Cabell-Huntington Health Department says it believes Cabell County’s hepatitis A outbreak peaked in July and “has been gradually reducing.” There have been more than 200 confirmed cases in the county, which “had not...

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Experts Worried “Lofty” Goals For Tuberculosis Care Set By UN May Not Be Implemented.

The Huffington Post (9/27, Weber) reports that prior “to the first U.N. high-level meeting on tuberculosis on Wednesday, global health experts said the momentum was different, that a turning point was near in the fight against the disease, the world’s to...

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Novartis Strikes Deal With Chinese Manufacturer To Make CAR-T Therapy.

Reuters (9/27, Miller) reports Novartis has inked a deal with Chinese manufacturer Cellular Biomedicine to make Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel), its $475,000 gene-modifying CAR-T cancer therapy. Chinese law requires that Novartis make the drug in China if it...

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Experts Impressed With Direct-To-Consumer Genetics Company’s Testing Accuracy.

Bloomberg News (9/27, Brown) reports that experts have been “impressed by the...testing accuracy” of a genetic-testing startup called Color Genomics, which “has attracted $150 million in investments from big names” and recently “scored funding from the N...

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CDC Announces It Has Stopped Investigation Of Salmonella Outbreak Linked To Cereal.

The Miami Herald (9/27, Neal) reports the CDC announced that it has stopped investigation of the Kellogg’s Honey Smacks salmonella outbreak. However, the piece adds that the FDA “never...named the third-party facility” that was the source of the outbreak...

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Fund To Give J&J, Oxford Scientists $19 Million To Research Deadly Viruses.

Reuters (9/27, Kelland) reports that the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations announced Thursday that it would provide up to $19 million to Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine unit and Oxford University scientists to research three major diseases: Mid...

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Anti-HIV Antibody Infusions Show Promise In Early Experiments.

Reuters (9/26, Rapaport) reports two preliminary experiments suggest that people with HIV may be able to fight the virus with semi-annual infusions of anti-HIV antibodies rather than daily antiretroviral pills. The small studies – one containing seven pa...

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Nearly 80,000 Died Of Flu Last Year, CDC Says.

The AP (9/26, Stobbe) reports about 80,000 Americans died of the flu and related complications this past winter – “the disease’s highest death toll in at least four decades” – according to US CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield. Dr. Redfield said, “I’d like...

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World Leaders Agree To Provide Billions To Improve TB Care.

The Washington Examiner (9/26, King) reports that on Wednesday, the UN General Assembly agreed “to new targets to treat 40 million people with tuberculosis by the end of 2022.” This change would also “provide 30 million people with treatment to prevent t...

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US Health Officials Express Optimism In Progress Towards Reducing HIV/AIDS Transmission.

STAT (9/26, Branswell) reports on progress researchers have made in working towards ending HIV/AIDS transmission. Today, “U.S. health officials and HIV experts are beginning to talk about a future in which transmission in the United States could be halte...

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Congo Says Ebola Response Will Resume Following Rebel Attack.

The AP (9/26) reports Congo’s health ministry said Ebola monitoring efforts in the country can resume in the city of Beni, where the AP says “a deadly rebel attack over the weekend caused work to be suspended.” According to the AP, “Civil society in Beni...

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Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Threatens To Expand To Uganda, WHO Says.

Researchers Use Bacteria To Fight Cancer.

First Human Case Of Rat Hepatitis E Confirmed In Hong Kong.

A Century After Flu Pandemic, Threat Of Disease Outbreak Worries Experts.

Giving Rifaximin After Standard Antibiotics May Reduce Recurrence Of Clostridium Difficile Infection, Research Suggests.

Tennessee’s West Nile Cases Expected To Rise.

Mapp Bio Secures Federal Contract For Sudan Virus Therapy.

Surf Park In Texas Closed For Testing Following Death Of Visitor From “Brain-Eating Amoeba.”

Accelerated Approval Of Gene-Silencing Drug Now In Doubt.

Hepatitis A Outbreak In West Virginia’s Cabell County Past Its Peak, Officials Say.

Experts Worried “Lofty” Goals For Tuberculosis Care Set By UN May Not Be Implemented.

Novartis Strikes Deal With Chinese Manufacturer To Make CAR-T Therapy.

Experts Impressed With Direct-To-Consumer Genetics Company’s Testing Accuracy.

CDC Announces It Has Stopped Investigation Of Salmonella Outbreak Linked To Cereal.

Fund To Give J&J, Oxford Scientists $19 Million To Research Deadly Viruses.

Anti-HIV Antibody Infusions Show Promise In Early Experiments.

Nearly 80,000 Died Of Flu Last Year, CDC Says.

World Leaders Agree To Provide Billions To Improve TB Care.

US Health Officials Express Optimism In Progress Towards Reducing HIV/AIDS Transmission.

Congo Says Ebola Response Will Resume Following Rebel Attack.