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South Dakota Requests CDC Help In Probing Legionnaire’s Outbreak.

The Sioux Falls (SD) Argus Leader (9/20, Fugleberg) reports the South Dakota Department of Health is seeking federal assistance in investigating a Legionnaire’s disease outbreak in Sioux Falls, which “has hospitalized 14 and killed 1, the department said...

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Military Labs Struggle To Implement Biosafety Reforms, GAO Says.

The New York Times (9/20, Baumgaertner) reports, “Three years after discovering that a military laboratory had shipped live anthrax to facilities around the world, the Department of Defense still has not developed a plan to evaluate its biological securi...

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Cargill Meat Solutions Recalling More Than 132,000 Pounds Of Ground Beef On E. Coli Fears.

The AP (9/20) reports Cargill Meat Solutions “is recalling more than 132,000 pounds (60,000 kilograms) of ground beef after a suspected E. coli outbreak killed one person and sickened 17, officials said.” On Sept. 19, the U.S. Department of Agriculture a...

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Removing Senescent Cells In Brain May Prevent Buildup Of Tau In Brain, Research In Mice Suggests.

Newsweek (9/19, Gander) reports researchers targeted senescent cells, also called “zombie cells,” in mice with Alzheimer’s disease with “tangles of the tau protein...in their brains.” The researchers said, “Using a combination of unique mouse models and...

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Mouth Bacteria May Provide Clues As To Whether Toddlers Will Become Obese, Study Suggests.

Newsweek (9/19, Gander) reports researchers “believe the bacteria that live in a toddler’s mouth could provide clues as to whether they will become obese.” After collecting “the gut and oral microbiota of 226 two-year-old children by swabbing their mouth...

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New Urine Diagnostic Test May Be Able To Detect Onchocerciasis.

Rare Disease Report (9/19, Rossi) reports researchers at the Scripps Research Institute developed a urine diagnostic that may be able to detect onchocerciasis, which is also known as river blindness. The lateral flow immunoassay diagnostic “can detect th...

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Congo’s Ebola Response Stifled By Regional Conflict, Public Distrust.

The AP (9/19, Keaten) reports that as the Democratic Republic of Congo continues to combat an outbreak of Ebola, the nation faces “complex challenges as the virus spreads for the first time in an area where long-running conflict is hampering aid efforts....

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Zimbabwe Seeks Public, Private Financial Support To Fight Cholera Outbreak.

Reuters (9/19, Dzirutwe) reports the government of Zimbabwe is seeking financial support from “individual citizens and local companies” to raise “$35 million to help fight a cholera outbreak that has killed 31 and infected more than 5,000.” So far, offic...

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Eastern Equine Encephalitis Found In Mosquito Sample In Massachusetts.

The Boston Globe (9/19, Picon) reports, “A mosquito in Massachusetts has tested positive for Eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, state health officials announced Wednesday.” Researchers discovered the disease, considered “serious, and potentially fatal,...

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Experts Say Significant Barriers Remain To Groups At Risk For HIV Accessing PrEP.

MedPage Today (9/19, Walker) reports a group of experts wrote in a perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine that some people at-risk for HIV are facing significant barriers to accessing PrEP. MedPage Today adds that “insurance denial, per...

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Costs Of Flu Vaccination Unlikely To Prevent People From Becoming Inoculated.

The AP (9/19, Stobbe) reports that as the flu season takes effect, people should take steps to prevent infection by getting vaccinated. The piece says, “The good news is many people don’t have to pay anything. The Affordable Care Act required insurers to...

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Op-Ed: US Pandemic Preparedness Lags As Biological Threats Multiply.

Tom Inglesby, Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and Eric Toner, Senior Scholar at the center and leader of the Clade X pandemic exercise project, write in the Washington Post (9/19) to discuss a lack of pandemic preparedness in th...

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Study: Majority Of Protein-Coding Genes Have Yet To Be Examined Due To Factors Related To Scientists’ Approaches To Research.

The New York Times (9/18, Zimmer) reports that according to a study published in PLOS Biology, researchers at Northwestern University found “that of our 20,000 protein-coding genes, about 5,400 have never been the subject of a single dedicated paper,” an...

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Researchers Use Vaccine Against Zika Virus To Destroy Glioblastoma Cells In Mice.

Newsweek (9/18, Gander) reports that in a study, investigators “used a vaccine against the” Zika “virus to kill human glioblastoma brain cells which had been implanted into rodents.” The findings were published in mBIO. HealthDay (9/18, Mundell) reports...

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Drug Policies Around The World Said To Impact HIV Rates.

MD Magazine (9/18) reports that according to the World Health Organization, around 10% of global HIV infections are the result of injection drug use. The “number soars to 30%” when Africa is excluded. The article highlights Hong Kong as a successful case...

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Maryland Reports Rising STD Rates.

The Baltimore Sun (9/12) reports that according to Maryland Health Department data, rates of gonorrhea rose 15% in the state in 2017, while rates of syphilis were up 12.3% and chlamydia saw a 9%. Overall, there were 44,967 cases of sexually transmitted d...

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California’s San Joaquin County Sees 44% Rise In Syphilis Cases.

Fox News (9/18) reports that data from San Joaquin County, CA shows that there was a 44% increase in syphilis cases from 2016 to 2017, with 50.9 cases of syphilis per 100,000 people in the county, second in the state behind San Francisco. The state’s Pub...

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Opinion: HIV Drug Pricing Is A Mess.

Tina Rosenberg writes in the New York Times (9/18) about the high costs of HIV medicine in the US, arguing “no class of medicines is more scandalously expensive than for H.I.V.” Americans spend approximately $20 billion per year on HIV drugs, and while o...

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Trump Administration Unveils New Biodefense Strategy.

The AP (9/18, Burns) reports that on Tuesday, the Trump Administration unveiled “a new biodefense strategy that it said takes a more comprehensive approach to preparing the nation for deliberate biological attacks and natural outbreaks of infectious dise...

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Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Urges Accelerated Focus On HIV/AIDS Research.

In an op-ed in STAT (9/18), Sue Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, discusses work at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to combat HIV/AIDS. The Foundation’s latest Goalkeepers report examines “the most consequential...

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South Dakota Requests CDC Help In Probing Legionnaire’s Outbreak.

Military Labs Struggle To Implement Biosafety Reforms, GAO Says.

Cargill Meat Solutions Recalling More Than 132,000 Pounds Of Ground Beef On E. Coli Fears.

Removing Senescent Cells In Brain May Prevent Buildup Of Tau In Brain, Research In Mice Suggests.

Mouth Bacteria May Provide Clues As To Whether Toddlers Will Become Obese, Study Suggests.

New Urine Diagnostic Test May Be Able To Detect Onchocerciasis.

Congo’s Ebola Response Stifled By Regional Conflict, Public Distrust.

Zimbabwe Seeks Public, Private Financial Support To Fight Cholera Outbreak.

Eastern Equine Encephalitis Found In Mosquito Sample In Massachusetts.

Experts Say Significant Barriers Remain To Groups At Risk For HIV Accessing PrEP.

Costs Of Flu Vaccination Unlikely To Prevent People From Becoming Inoculated.

Op-Ed: US Pandemic Preparedness Lags As Biological Threats Multiply.

Study: Majority Of Protein-Coding Genes Have Yet To Be Examined Due To Factors Related To Scientists’ Approaches To Research.

Researchers Use Vaccine Against Zika Virus To Destroy Glioblastoma Cells In Mice.

Drug Policies Around The World Said To Impact HIV Rates.

Maryland Reports Rising STD Rates.

California’s San Joaquin County Sees 44% Rise In Syphilis Cases.

Opinion: HIV Drug Pricing Is A Mess.

Trump Administration Unveils New Biodefense Strategy.

Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Urges Accelerated Focus On HIV/AIDS Research.