Government increases research funding Oct 21, 2009
In June, for example, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) extended a five-year, $37 million grant to medical researchers studying biodefense and emerging infectious diseases in the Midwest. The NIH also gave the medical school $19 million to study microbes in the human body and the role they play in health and disease. (Washington University Student Life, MO)
Minnesota State Fair study provides new glimpses of H1N1 (30) Oct 21, 2009
Collaborators Dr. Greg Gray, M.D. of the University of Iowa's Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Dr. Jeff Bender, D.V.M., of the University of Minnesota Center for Animal Health and Safety, were studying swine flu before novel H1N1 emerged. Funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the 2008-2009 research study was developed to test up to 300 adults and children who participate in fair swine shows. (Minnesota Farm Guide, MN)
Lengthy International Travel Tied to Health Problems Oct 17, 2009
"Few studies have compared the types and causes of illness in travelers on the basis of duration of travel," Dr. Lin H. Chen, from the Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and members of the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network note the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases ... SOURCE: Emerging Infectious Diseases, November 2009. (MEDLINEplus)
Paradigm shift needed to combat drug resistance Oct 16, 2009
In a paper published today in Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID), a journal of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a McMaster University infectious disease expert explores the relationship between population mobility, globalization and antimicrobial drug resistance ... The ideas contained in the Emerging Infectious Diseases paper originated with the work of the Infectious Disease Information Expert Committee of the Council of Experts of the United States Pharmacopeia , an arm's... (EurekAlert!)
Study Explains Immunity to H1N1 in Older People Oct 16, 2009
Her study appears in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. Cardona said cell-based immunity may be serving to weaken the effects of swine flu. (MEDLINEplus)
What are coral reef services worth? $130,000 to $1.2 million / ht / yr: Experts Oct 16, 2009
She estimated 2,241 non-native species were imported to the U.S. between 2000 and 2006 and says there have been 335 outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases since 1940, 75% of which had animal origins. Among the outbreaks: a 2003 US outbreak of monkeypox traced to African rodents imported for pets, SARS in 2002, West Nile Virus in 1999, smallpox in the 1500s and syphilis in the 1400s. (EurekAlert!)
Earlier flu viruses provided some immunity to current H1N1 influenza, study shows Oct 15, 2009
Researchers Zheng Xing, a project scientist, and Carol Cardona, a veterinarian and Cooperative Extension specialist, both of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, report their findings online in the journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases. The report will appear in the November print edition of the journal, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (EurekAlert!)
National Science Foundation awards grants for studies of coupled natural and human systems Oct 15, 2009
Coupled natural-human systems and emerging infectious diseases (Jefferson Fox, Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange, East-West Center). Coupled natural-human systems in the Chicago Wilderness: evaluating the biodiversity and social outcomes of different models of restoration planning (Liam Heneghan, DePaul University). (EurekAlert!)
Swine Flu Rates Up to 5 Times Higher for Native Groups Oct 11, 2009
And in 1918, the was especially hard on indigenous populations, according to a 2008 study in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. Indigenous peoples in Canada, Sweden, Norway, and the United States had estimated mortality rates 3 to 70 times higher than non-indigenous populations, the 2008 study found. (National Geographic)
Legislation supplies additional $10 billion for biomed research Sep 30, 2009
The Institute for Clinical and Translational Science and the Midwest Regional Center of Excellence for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases Research are examples of institutions at the University that recently received federal grants. According to Lodge, the medical school has tallied about $40 million in grant money from the ARRA funding as of last week. (Washington University Student Life, MO)
Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Lung Disease On The Rise In The United States, Study Finds Sep 26, 2009
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009; DOI. Adapted from materials provided by , via , a service of AAAS. Email or share this story. (Science Daily)
Possible Implications Of Daily Commute And Mosquito-borne Diseases Sep 22, 2009
To undertake this study, Kapan teamed up with mathematician Ben Adams from the University of Bath (UK), with support of UH M noa's Pacific Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Research Center of Biomedical Research Excellence program, and as participating faculty in UH M noa's National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Research Traineeship (IGERT) in Ecology, Conservation and Pathogen Biology. "Our primary objective with this paper is to prompt researchers, public health practitioners... (Science Daily)
Study Shows 1% of Americans Have Been Infected with West Nile Sep 11, 2009
That number has grown steadily since the virus first appeared in North America in 1999, according to a study in the October issue of the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases ... D., senior director, viral vaccines and global pathogen safety, Baxter BioScience, Vienna, Austria; October 2009 Emerging Infectious Diseases. (MEDLINEplus)
Was The Public Health Response To Swine Flu Alarmist? Sep 5, 2009
But if this pandemic does not increase in severity, it may signal the need to reassess both the risk assessment and risk management strategies towards emerging infectious diseases. He suggests that future responses to infectious diseases may benefit from a risk assessment that broadly conceives of four types of threat based on the disease's distribution and clinical severity. (Science Daily)
WU preps for possible swine flu outbreak Sep 4, 2009
The Emerging Infectious Diseases Task Force has been meeting regularly since last spring to develop a comprehensive response plan to the emergence of the H1N1 virus, Glass wrote in an e-mail to Student Life. This plan includes communication strategies, plans for the care of ill students, procurement of supplies, vaccine distribution and isolation of students to help prevent spread of the virus. (Washington University Student Life, MO)
New iPhone App 'Outbreaks Near Me' Locates H1N1 (Swine Flu), Infectious Diseases Sep 3, 2009
The application, "Outbreaks Near Me," builds upon the mission and proven capability of HealthMap, an online resource that collects, filters, maps and disseminates information about emerging infectious diseases, and provides a new, contextualized view of a user's specific location pinpointing outbreaks that have been reported in the vicinity of the user and offering the opportunity to search for additional outbreak information by location or disease. Additional functionality of Outbreaks Near Me... (Science Daily)
New iPhone application tracks disease outbreaks Sep 3, 2009
The "Outbreaks Near Me" program is associated with HealthMap, an online resource that collects, filters, maps and disseminates information about emerging infectious diseases. Children's Hospital Boston, said in a press release, said it can pinpoint outbreaks reported in the vicinity of a user and let them search for additional information by location or disease. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
East-West Center awarded $1.4M for avian-flu study Sep 2, 2009
The project, "CNH: Coupled Natural-Human Systems and Emerging Infectious Diseases," will examine the interaction of urbanization, agricultural change and habitat alteration with outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry in Vietnam. "Studying the role of societal development in disease transmission is urgent and critical for improving the prediction and control of disease," said Jefferson Fox, East-West Center senior fellow and member of the team heading up the project. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Frist: Ted Kennedy's death a loss for mankind Aug 28, 2009
And he was the masterful legislative colleague who never sacrificed his liberal principles standing for the everyday person as we joined each other on the health committee as respective co-chairmen to write and pass bills on disparities among the poor, emerging infectious diseases such as HIV and avian flu, and preparing the nation and the world to fight bioterrorism. His death is a loss not just for Massachusetts and the Senate, but for all of mankind. (CNN -- US)
Satellites Used to Predict Infectious Disease Outbreaks Aug 25, 2009
Ford and a group of experts have co-authored (pdf), due out next month in Emerging Infectious Diseases, that proposes making use of environmental data tracked via satellite to predict disease outbreaks. "As changes, and even with many of our weather patterns, [it] directly affects the distribution of disease," Ford says. (Scientific American)
3 colleges to offer combined curricula Aug 24, 2009
Other joint programs focusing on emerging infectious diseases and affordable health care could spring up in future years. Some of the classes that are needed aren t on the shelf, said Richard Miller, president of Olin College, in Needham. (Boston Globe)
India hotspot for new infectious diseases: Report Aug 21, 2009
NEW DELHI: India is a hotspot for emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), a study by an international team of scientists which recently published its findings in the journal Nature has warned ... The team also prepared a detailed map highlighting the world's hotspots for emerging infectious diseases. (India Times, India)
Backyard Raccoon 'Latrines' Harbor Hidden Dangers Aug 18, 2009
A report on the infectious disease risk associated with raccoons appears in the September issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases ... D., director, Department of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology, New York University Langone Medical Center, and clinical professor, microbiology and pathology, NYU School of Medicine, New York City; September 2009; Emerging Infectious Diseases. (MEDLINEplus)
Biologists Demystify Elusive War Zone Bacterium Aug 18, 2009
The professor in the South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases is researching Acinetobacter baumannii, a soil-dwelling bacterium that threatens the health of military personnel in the Middle East and can also infect their family members once the soldiers have returned home following battle. See also. (Science Daily)
UTSA biology researchers demystify elusive war zone bacterium Aug 17, 2009
The professor in the South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases is researching Acinetobacter baumannii, a soil-dwelling bacterium that threatens the health of military personnel in the Middle East and can also infect their family members once the soldiers have returned home following battle. The symptoms of Acinetobacter infections are mild to severe and present in a variety of ways, but are mostly found in immunocompromised individuals. (EurekAlert!)
People Who Eat Deer And Elk With Chronic Wasting Disease May Avoid Infection Because Of Species Barrier, Study in Monkeys Suggests Aug 4, 2009
The study appears online in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases ... Emerging Infectious Diseases, DOI. (Science Daily)
Washing Hands Saves Lives Jul 28, 2009
An article in Emerging Infectious Diseases entitled The Impact of Hospital-Acquired Bloodstream Infections, by Richard P. Wenzel and Michael B. Edmond, places nosocomial bloodstream infections as possibly the number eight leading cause of death in the United States. According to a July 28, 2008 Health Facilities Management article entitled , approximately 46 out of 1,000 patients were colonized or infected with MRSA in 2006, which represented a significant increase from previous estimates. (Suite101.com)
Official defends policy of releasing little swine flu information Jul 26, 2009
Public health agencies must be sensitive to the stigmatizing effects that newly emerging infectious diseases have on individuals when their diseases become known to the general public. The Department has issued public health warnings and advisories related to specific infectious disease outbreaks in the past, even to the point of providing immune globulin to entire schools during the Hepatitis A outbreak of 2002. (Lake Wales News, FL)
FDA Grants First Authorization of a Commercial 2009 H1N1 Flu Test for use During Pandemic Flu Emergency to Quest Diagnostics' Focus Diagnostics Business Jul 25, 2009
Quest Diagnostics' Focus business, which has a track record of being first to market with new laboratory testing services for emerging infectious diseases, developed and, in May 2009, launched the laboratory developed test to help offload an expected backlog of testing from public health laboratories ... " Quest Diagnostics is currently in the process of validating the test at a number of its CLIA high complexity laboratories around the U.S. capable of performing the test in compliance with the... (PR Newswire)
H1N1 Influenza Pandemic Modeling For Public Health Action Jul 22, 2009
The authors conclude that "making these models better understood and more accessible will provide a valuable additional weapon in the fight against emerging infectious diseases.". In a related article, Canada's first human-to-human transmission of the H1N1 influenza virus is presented in a research case study. (Science Daily)
HJF enters cooperative agreement to support US Army's suicide research Jul 17, 2009
Students are active-duty uniformed officers in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Public Health Service, who are being educated to deal with wartime casualties, natural disasters, emerging infectious diseases and other public health emergencies. Of the university's nearly 4,400 physician alumni and more than 400 advance practice nurses, the vast majority serve on active duty and are supporting operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, offering their leadership and expertise. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Flu strains circulate for years before becoming pandemic Jul 14, 2009
Researchers at the University of Hong Kong's Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases ran computer analyses tracing the evolution of the flu strain in the three major pandemics: 1918, 1957 and 1968. They found that the virus, which is estimated to have killed 50 million to 100 million people worldwide, most likely was circulating in humans and pigs at least two to 15 years before the pandemic began. (USA Today)
Influenza Monitoring By The US Military Jul 14, 2009
National concerns about emerging infectious diseases led to the creation of the Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (DoD-GEIS) in 1997. This program has 6 objectives relevant to influenza. (Science Daily)
Infectious Disease Researchers Advancing Vaccine Against Valley Fever Jul 14, 2009
ScienceDaily (July 13, 2009) Medical mycologists in The South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) and the Department of Biology at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) have significantly advanced the fight against San Joaquin Valley Fever, a respiratory infection of humans, commonly called Valley Fever, which is caused by the Coccidioides fungus. For the first time, the researchers have genetically engineered a live, attenuated vaccine that successfully protects mice... (Science Daily)
System deisgned to predict H1N1 spread Jul 2, 2009
It was created in response to the Toronto SARS crisis in 2003 to better understand the global airline transportation network and its relationship to the spread of emerging infectious diseases. "While it is generally understood that air travel can transport infectious diseases around the world, the BIO.DIASPORA Project, has for the first time, provided a very accurate picture of not only where diseases will travel, but how often and when," said Dr. Michael Gardam, director of infectious diseases... (India Times, India -- Health/Science)
* Swine flu followed airline route map, study shows Jul 1, 2009
This work provides the world with a potent early warning system for emerging infectious diseases, Dr Michael Gardam of the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion said in a statement. Our analysis showed that in March and April 2008, a total of 2. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Air Traffic Patterns Predict Swine Flu Spread Jul 1, 2009
Researchers plan to use the database, which does not connect itineraries with specific passenger names, to help determine where newly emerging infectious diseases are most likely to turn up. In doing so, governments and public health authorities could work together to prevent the spread of disease and take steps such as determining where to marshal limited public health resources. (MEDLINEplus)
Scientific system accurately predicts spread of H1N1: study Jun 30, 2009
The Project, led by Dr. Khan, was created in response to the Toronto SARS crisis in 2003 to better understand the global airline transportation network and its relationship to the spread of emerging infectious diseases ... "This work provides the world with a potent early warning system for emerging infectious diseases.". (EurekAlert!)
Wash. U. biodefense center gets $37M Jun 26, 2009
has awarded a five-year, $37 million grant to the in Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases at in St. Louis. The money will continue to support research in biodefense and emerging infectious diseases throughout the Midwest. (St. Louis Business Journal, MO)
European researchers look for new ways to fight multi-drug-resistant bacterial infections Jun 26, 2009
It has reached such a stage that the World Health Organization considers these multi-drug-resistant microorganisms the cause of emerging infectious diseases. Currently a large amount of antibiotics available are not apt for the treatment of resistant pathogens belonging to an important group called gram-negative bacteria. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Grant will fund STD research at UTSA Jun 25, 2009
Ashlesh Murthy, a research assistant professor in the South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) at UTSA, was awarded the grant by the Semp Russ Foundation of the San Antonio Area Foundation. The grant will fund Murthy s study of the role of CD8-positive T-cells in chlamydia infections. (San Antonio Business Journal, TX)
Canada, China renew plan of action for health co-op Jun 19, 2009
The document signed Thursday builds on the 2005 to 2008 Plan of Action which promoted cooperation between Canada and China in several areas, including the timely sharing of information on emerging infectious diseases, such as the H1N1 influenza virus, and a better understanding of regulatory frameworks in the area of therapeutic products and Natural Health Products, including Traditional Chinese Medicines, to help ensure the safety and quality of these products. The new Plan of Action also... (Xinhuanet, China)
Feel Like Sushi? Get a 9-Ft. Tapeworm Jun 17, 2009
The article, printed in Emerging Infectious Diseases, tracked the movement of tapeworm infection for 20 years as reports migrated from rural fishing villages in Japan to urban centers around the world, including France, Switzerland and the United States ... tapeworm have been found in sushi-eating urbanites in Brazil, according to a July 2007 report in Emerging Infectious Diseases. (ABC News)
Next flu could strain health care system Jun 5, 2009
After the avian flu scare, county health departments started preparedness drills, said Dr. Christian Sandrock, a physician in infectious diseases at the University of California Davis Medical Center and a deputy health officer for Yolo County, California, who specializes in disaster preparedness and emerging infectious diseases. "A lot of things we worked on then seemed far-fetched but worked really well," Sandrock said. (CNN -- Health)
Swine Flu And Other New Infectious Diseases -- What's The Risk? May 22, 2009
Overall, the studies in this issue show that people across Europe and East Asia do regard recently emerging infectious diseases as serious potential health threats, based on information received from various sources, with clear differences between countries and regions ... Brug et al. Risk Perceptions and Behaviour: Towards Pandemic Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases. (Science Daily)
Veterinarians at high risk for viral, bacterial infections from animals May 15, 2009
While conducting previous occupational research studies, the study's authors, Whitney Baker, a doctoral student in epidemiology at the University of Iowa College of Public Health, and Gregory Gray, M.D., University of Iowa professor of epidemiology and director of the University of Iowa Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, observed that veterinarians often have evidence of zoonotic influenza virus infection ... "To really make a difference in controlling emerging infectious diseases, we need... (EurekAlert!)
Study Supports Swine Flu's Pandemic Potential May 13, 2009
"The information we have is still incomplete, but this can help lay out a scientific basis for political decisions," said Dennis M. Perrotta, associate director for emerging infectious diseases at the National Center for Emergency Medical Preparedness and Response ... SOURCES: Ghinwa Dumyati, M.D., associate professor, medicine, division of infectious diseases, University of Rochester Medical Center, N.Y.; Gordon Dickinson, M.D., chief, infectious diseases, University of Miami Miller School of... (MEDLINEplus)
Interview: WHO expects new flu cases to increase in Western Pacific region May 12, 2009
Hall, who also heads the WHO office's Emerging Infectious Diseases unit, said government across the region should remain vigilant and respond quickly to the spread of the new influenza. WHO said on Monday that more than 4,379 people world-wide has been infected by the A/H1N1 influenza virus and around 50 people were killed, mostly in North America, where the virus originated. (Xinhuanet, China)
Quest Diagnostics Introduces First Commercial Laboratory Test for Identifying the H1N1 Swine Flu Virus May 12, 2009
Focus Diagnostics has a track record of being first to market with new laboratory testing services for emerging infectious diseases, such as West Nile Virus, SARS, and chikungunya virus ... Focus Diagnostics has collaborated with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization and other public health agencies to help identify and develop diagnostic tests for emerging infectious diseases. (PR Newswire)
From Rats To Humans: Around Thirty Europeans Infected With Cowpox Virus By Their Pet Rats May 9, 2009
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009; 15 (5): 781 DOI. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)
Scientists Surprised By Unexpected Emergence Of Periodical Cicadas -- Four Years Early May 9, 2009
24, 2005) Emerging infectious diseases pose a global threat to human and animal health, and the problem is likely to worsen, warns an expert in this week's British Medical Journal. The recent emergence of. (Science Daily)
Tracking swine flu's origins May 7, 2009
A 2008 Nature study co-written by Peter Daszak, president of Wildlife Trust, an international organization of scientists, used computer modeling to find that hot spots for emerging infectious diseases include China, Southeast Asia, Mexico, parts of Brazil, Europe and the United States. The study showed that socioeconomic, environmental and ecological factors correlate with emerging infectious diseases and help identify "hot spots" for where they crop up ... Anyone who is building pig farms or... (CNN -- Health)
CDC's Dr. Richard Besser on Swine Flu and Katrina May 6, 2009
Besser: If you look at where emerging infectious diseases come from, they tend to come from the interface of animal and human health. We have a facility here the National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne and Enteric Diseases that's addressing those issues. (Time.com)
New, Fast-Evolving Rabies Virus Found -- And Spreading May 5, 2009
Skunks have already been proven to be passively transmitting the strain to each other, as documented in a 2006 study in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. Genetic studies suggest foxes are also spreading the new strain to each other, though the results have not yet been peer reviewed. (National Geographic)
How swine flu hopscotched the globe May 5, 2009
"Influenzas are hard to predict," Dr. Gregory Gray, director at the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases at the University of Iowa College of Public Health, said at midweek. "I don't think this will go away in a few days. The way it's moving and the way air transportation goes ... I think this thing is going to spread to every continent in the next week.". (Athens Banner-Herald)
Amid swine flu outbreak, racism goes viral May 2, 2009
Anti-immigrant hatred spreads on talk radio, Web sites. April 28: Michelle Malkin claims that the spread of contagious disease is a result of uncontrolled immigration. (MSNBC -- Race)
New Understanding Of Dengue Virus Points Way To Possible Therapies For Dengue Fever May 1, 2009
Garcia-Blanco, who is also professor of emerging infectious diseases at the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore, used RNA interference (RNAi) to unlock dengue's secrets. RNA interference is a normal biological process cells use to turn gene expression on or off depending upon which gene products, or proteins, are needed at any given moment. (Science Daily)
From Swine Flu To Dengue Fever: Infectious Disease Risks On The Rise May 1, 2009
Deforestation and other human changes to the landscape are other drivers of emerging infectious diseases, he added ... 24, 2005) Emerging infectious diseases pose a global threat to human and animal health, and the problem is likely to worsen, warns an expert in this week's British Medical Journal. (Science Daily)
Influenza evolving Apr 30, 2009
And at that point, we began to have two lineages of that disease - the human virus, and the pig virus, which persisted too," he adds. The progeny of the 1918 influenza strain evolved and mutated as they were transmitted from one host to another. And on two further occasions, these strains incorporated completely new genes and spread globally once again. Controlled outbreak "That's what happened in 1957 and 1968 - a hybrid formed of the 1918 virus with genes that were never part of it before,"... (BBC News -- Health)
Science of swine flu - Unpredictability marks the most recent strain of disease to spread Apr 29, 2009
Swine flus were first detected in the 1930s, but pigs have probably had their own strains for hundreds of years, said Greg Gray, director of the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases at the University of Iowa College of Public Health ... A 2007 study in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases compared swine flu exposure in farmers, their spouses, and a control group of university students, faculty and staff. (Missoulian, MT)
Swine flu likely to hit tri-state region Apr 28, 2009
Greg Gray, director for the Center of Emerging Infectious Diseases at the University of Iowa College of Public Health, was even more direct. "The virus is here in North America, and it's likely to show up on every continent, I think, by the end of the week," he said. (Sioux City Journal)
Swine flu fears prompt crackdown on travellers Apr 28, 2009
Professor MacIntyre, of the University of NSW, who sits on a national panel advising on influenza and emerging infectious diseases, said without a matched vaccine to counter the flu "it will be important for people to use all other protective measures that they can, such as masks". The Federal Government declared from midnight last night all airlines from the Americas would be required to report to quarantine authorities if any person on board had flu-like symptoms. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
UTSA, Health Science Center collaborate with Merck & Co. to develop chlamydia vaccine Apr 28, 2009
"This is an exciting development in the fight against infectious diseases, highlighting the outstanding research in microbiology and immunology occurring at UTSA and the Health Science Center, and it demonstrates the power of these two sister institutions working together to improve human health," said Karl Klose, director of UTSA's South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID) and professor of microbiology in UTSA's Department of Biology. Chlamydia trachomatis is responsible for... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
OHSU scientists partner with others to form center aimed at combating infectious diseases Apr 16, 2009
Oregon Health ce University and the University of Washington, along with a number of partner institutions across the Northwest, have received federal funding to form a regional research center aimed at combating emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases that pose a serious threat to human health. Based at OHSU, the collaborative Pacific Northwest Regional Center for Excellence (PNWRCE) for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases was established through a five-year, $40. (EurekAlert!)
Planned biolab delays opening again Apr 16, 2009
The federal health agency that is underwriting construction of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories on Boston University's medical school campus told a federal judge yesterday that its latest safety review will take at least a year longer than originally projected. The National Institutes of Health now estimates that it will not be able to submit the safety analysis to US District Court Judge Patti B. Saris until spring or summer of next year. (Boston Globe)
