Meanwhile, 14 Americans were recently quarantined at Fort Drum after returning from the DRC....
Public health response cannot succeed where governance is fractured, logistics are crippled, and trust is already in short supply...
Meanwhile, two trials for the treatment of Bundibugyo Ebola will begin soon and France reports its first case....
Meanwhile, Kenya continues development of US-backed Ebola quarantine center in defiance of court order....
Meanwhile, cruisers being isolated after hantavirus exposures return home and the first Clade 1 monkeypox case is reported in Connecticut....
Applying lessons learned during the historic 2014 outbreak, the Trump administration is also restricting entry from high-risk regions and concentrating screening at designated airports....
NYT asserts that efforts to contain Ebola may have been hindered by USAID cuts....
However, the outbreak has not met the criteria of a pandemic....
Integrated Research Facility facilities have been padlocked and an administrator has been placed on administrative leave. A report indicates that initiating incident was a "lover's spat"....
Rare "Sudan Strain" has been identified....
In one study led by 16 researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Broad Institute and elsewhere, genomic analyses pinpointed parts of the Ebola virus that changed during the west African outbreak. One genetic mutation, in particular, appeared to affect a key region of the pathogen where it binds to human cells.
Stewart says his bill, which would unlock more than a billion dollars for the CDC and National Institute of Health, would ensure the agencies had the resources they need to research and combat the virus. “Congress has already allocated funding to fight many of the world’s infectious diseases, like Ebola, and I want to make sure this funding can also be used to combat the Zika virus,” Stewart said. The Zika Response and Safety Act would allow federal agencies to use funds allocated for Ebola research in the fight against the Zika virus, according to a press release from Stewart’s office. Stewart states that of the $2.4 billion allocated for Ebola research, about $1.4 billion was unused as of September of 2015.Dallas County Health and Human Services has confirmed acase of Zika infection that occurred on American soil...through sexual transmission.
