How Scientists Stay on Top of Infectious Disease Outbreaks
Zoonotic disease surveillance efforts aim to predict and prevent outbreaks
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Potential Zika Virus Risk Estimated for 50 US Cities
The Aedes aegypti mosquito will likely be increasingly abundant across much of the southern and eastern United States as the weather warm
Cholera-Like Disease 'Piggybacking' on El Niño to Reach New Shores
New research just published has highlighted how El Niño could be transporting and spreading waterborne diseases like cholera thousands of miles, across oceans, with significant impacts for public health.
Planning for a Disease Outbreak? There’s a Game for That.
“It is not enough for our tool to be accurate. It has to be useful. It has to be in real time,” researcher says of interactive tool
Mosquitoes Capable of Carrying Zika Virus Found in Washington, D.C.
Team also found genetic evidence that these mosquitoes have overwintered for at least the past four years
Novel Device Combines Power of Mass Spectrometry, Microscopy
System provides knowledge ital for designing and advancing new functional materials
Experts Call for Massive Global Response to Tackle Ebola
The current Ebola outbreak now requires a “rapid response at a massive global scale”, according to experts at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Open-Source Electronic Disease Surveillance Software Released
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC) have released the Suite for Automated Global Electronic bioSurveillance (SAGES), a collection of flexible, open-source software products developed for electronic disease surveillance in all settings.