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Newsweek
In January, Columbia University revealed that four patients at its Irving Medical Center in New York had been sick with an unusual version of E. coli, a common gut bacterium. Although the news largely escaped attention in the media, it ricocheted through the world of infectious disease experts. E. coli is a relatively common bacterium and benign when it’s in the gut, where it usually lives, but in the wrong places — such as in lettuce or ground beef, or our bloodstream — it can turn deadly.
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Biomed Central via Infection Control Today
Current vaccination policies may not be sufficient to achieve and maintain measles elimination and prevent future resurgence in Australia, Ireland, Italy, the UK and the U.S., according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Medicine.
To successfully achieve and maintain measles elimination in these countries in the medium to long term, further country-specific immunization efforts may be needed in addition to current strategies.
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Outbreak News Today
With 32 additional confirmed measles cases reported in the Brooklyn/Queens area of New York City, including the first cases reported in Jamaica and Flatbush, New York City health officials put the outbreak total at 498.
The neighborhoods of Williamsburg, Borough Park, Sunset Park, Brighton Beach and Flushing, Queens, all reported new cases.
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The miniiSED™ is the newest addition to the iSED™ family of ESR analyzers from ALCOR Scientific. The miniiSED™ is a single position, fully automated ESR analyzer that works directly from the primary EDTA tube and produces an ESR result in just 15 seconds. The miniiSED™ is the ideal ESR analyzer for small laboratories, POL’s and emergency clinics.
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Harvard Medical School via ScienceDaily
Viruses are masterful invaders. They cannibalize host cells by injecting their genetic material, often making thousands of copies of themselves in a single cell to ensure their replication and survival. Some RNA viruses insert their genetic material as a single piece, while others chop it up into pieces. The latter are aptly named segmented viruses.
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Relief Web
The next global pandemic is a matter of when, not if. Preparing for this inevitability requires that policymakers understand not just the science of limiting disease transmission or engineering a drug, but also the practical challenges of expanding a response strategy to a regional or global level. Achieving success at such scales is largely an issue of operational, strategic and policy choices — areas of pandemic preparedness that remain underexplored.
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The Miami Herald
After Miami-Dade county, Florida, was plunged into a panic by an outbreak of Zika in 2016, the county’s stepped-up battle against mosquitoes has succeeded in limiting the spread of the deadly virus.
But as mosquito season again looms with the arrival of summer rains, county leaders recently cautioned that there are a lot more health threats to worry about than Zika — particularly in southern Florida.
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Medical News Today
A new drug for treating Alzheimer's disease has successfully passed the first phase of testing in humans. Preclinical studies had already shown that the drug could improve memory and other symptoms of Alzheimer's disease in older mice.
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The FlowSight offers high performance in a small package. Its design increases signal and minimizes noise to provide unmatched fluorescence sensitivity. Twelve detection channels simultaneously produce brightfield, darkfield and up to ten channels of fluorescence imagery of every cell.
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DARK Daily
Clinical laboratories continue to adapt to servicing providers in nontraditional healthcare settings. These include freestanding urgent care centers as well as mini-clinics in retail locations.
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NPR
The United Nations has set a goal of ending the global HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030.
The tide is slowly turning in southeastern Africa — which encompasses countries like South Africa, Mozambique, Lesotho and Botswana — and which remains the epicenter of the epidemic and home to more than half the 36.9 million people living with the disease.
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Contagion Live
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has classified C-diff infections as an urgent threat to public health, yet it can be difficult for clinicians to classify the severity of infection. Similarly, lack of data leaves gaps in knowledge about if a correlation exists between severity, C-diff treatment and clinical outcomes.
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SeraSub® is a synthetic serum for use as a component in preparing standards and controls for in-vitro diagnostic tests. Learn more
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News Medical Life Sciences
Yale researchers have pinpointed a key reason why people are more likely to get sick and even die from flu during winter months: low humidity.
While experts know that cold temperatures and low humidity promote transmission of the flu virus, less is understood about the effect of decreased humidity on the immune system's defenses against flu infection.
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