White House seeks input on tightening rules for risky pathogen research
A panel’s recommendations earlier this year to tighten U.S. rules for funding research on dangerous pathogens
sparked concerns
that some of the changes would hamper routine studies important to public health. Now, the White House is looking at ways to narrow the swath of federally funded research that would undergo the heightened reviews proposed in a
final report
released in March by the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB).
A
notice
posted today in the
Federal Register
by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) seeks comments by 16 October on a...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 1, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
U.S. FDA Approves Merck ’s Ervebo (Ebola Zaire Vaccine, Live) for Use in Children 12 Months of Age and Older
RAHWAY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE) August 3, 2023 -- Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an expanded indication for Ervebo, which is now... (Source: Drugs.com - New Drug Approvals)
Source: Drugs.com - New Drug Approvals - August 3, 2023 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
The U.S. Scientist At the Heart of COVID-19 Lab Leak Conspiracies Is Still Trying to Save the World From the Next Pandemic
Ralph Baric stepped onto the auditorium stage at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and looked out at the sparse audience that had come to hear him speak. On the large projector screen hanging behind him, the following words appeared: How Bad the Next Pandemic Could Be, What Might It Look Like, and Will We be Ready. The date was May 29, 2018.
“Well, I have to admit I’m a little worried about giving this talk,” Baric said. “The reason is being labelled a harbinger of doom.” The screen shifted, and images of the four horsemen of the apocalypse—Death, Famine, War, and Plague&mda...
Source: TIME: Health - July 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dan Werb Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 feature freelance Source Type: news
AI? Brain manipulation? WHO ’s new chief scientist aims to anticipate global challenges
At the beginning of May, after almost 10 years at the helm of one of the world’s richest biomedical foundations, British physician Jeremy Farrar traded funding clout for a bigger international stage, moving to Geneva to become chief scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO). Farrar had
helped make the U.K.-based Wellcome Trust a major player
in global issues such as infectious diseases and the health effects of climate change. He also wasn’t shy about criticizing WHO’s leadership, specifically its slow response to the West African Ebola outbreak in 2014.
Only the second person in the chief scie...
Source: ScienceNOW - June 29, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Inequitable Distribution of COVID Vaccines Tied to Power and Money
This report was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Global Health Reporting Initiative: Vaccines and Immunization in the Caribbean.
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Caribbean aims to Turn Foul-smelling, Enviro Problem Sargassum Seaweed into High-Value Products
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Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - June 29, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jewel Fraser Tags: COVID-19 Featured Global Headlines Health Inequality Multimedia Podcast TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau Source Type: news
New Marburg Outbreaks in Africa Raise Alarm About the Deadly Virus ’s Spread
The spread of the Ebola-like virus has claimed lives but could be a crucial chance to test a vaccine — if supplies and researchers are mobilized in time. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Stephanie Nolen Tags: Vaccination and Immunization Marburg Virus Ebola Virus Clinical Trials Research World Health Organization Africa Equatorial Guinea Tanzania your-feed-science your-feed-healthcare Source Type: news
News at a glance: A particle ’s weighty measurement, Marburg in Africa, and a fossil called “the blob”
PARTICLE PHYSICS
Particle mass dispels hint of new physics
A fleeting, weighty elementary particle called the W boson has just the mass predicted by theory, physicists working with Europe’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) reported this week at a conference in Italy. The finding comes from ATLAS, one of four large particle detectors fed by the LHC, and it contradicts
the eyebrow-raising measurement
reported last year in
Science
that suggested
the W was heavier than predicted by physicists’ prevailing standard model
. That discrepancy could have signaled that massive ne...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 30, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
What Is Marburg? What You Need To Know About The Killer Ebola-Like Virus Spreading In Parts Of Africa
There are no treatments or vaccines approved for Marburg, a virus in the same family as Ebola with a fatality rate between 24% to 88%. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - March 27, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Robert Hart, Forbes Staff Tags: Business /business Innovation /innovation Healthcare /healthcare Science /science Breaking breaking-news Source Type: news
Deadly Marburg Virus Spreads to Tanzania for the First Time
Tanzania reported its first outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus after eight people developed symptoms including fever, vomiting, bleeding and kidney failure.
Testing by the east African country confirmed the presence of the highly virulent disease that causes hemorrhagic fever, the World Health Organization said in a statement late Tuesday. Five of the eight cases in Tanzania’s northwest Kagera region have died and another 161 contacts have been identified and are being monitored, the WHO said.
Tanzania is the second African country this year to report its first Marburg outbreak after Equatorial Guinea in February d...
Source: TIME: Health - March 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Janice Kew/Bloomberg Tags: Uncategorized bloomberg wire Disease healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Next Ebola Outbreak ‘Not a Matter of If, but When’
Uganda used public health measures like screening, testing of temperatures, and isolation of suspected cases to contain the Ebola outbreak. While those measures were successful, scientists warn that another outbreak could occur. Credit: Wambi Michael/IPSBy Wambi MichaelKAMPALA & MUBENDE, Mar 10 2023 (IPS) It is two months since the World Health Organization declared Uganda free of the most recent Sudan ebolavirus, which killed 55 people.
Uganda employed public health measures to end the outbreak. In the absence of vaccines and therapeutics, the threat of the next outbreak looms.
Scientists are yet to find answers to quest...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 10, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Wambi Michael Tags: Africa Editors' Choice Environment Featured Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Uganda Source Type: news
I ’m a Covid researcher – and I have long Covid. That’s why I have to be part of the fight against it | Stephanie Longet
I am one of two million sufferers in the UK. When I read new studies, I am also trying to understand what ’s going on in my legsI first arrived in the UK from Switzerland in 2019 to work at the High Consequence Emerging Viruses Group at what is now the UK Health Security Agency. At the time, my project was focused on Ebola virus disease survivors. I was excited for a new chapter in the Ebola field. But Covid quickly changed our plans.We applied our skills to develop Covid treatments and new antivirals. I was involved in early research to study the Sars-CoV-2 infection, and test vaccine candidates.The lab moved to the Uni...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 20, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Stephanie Longet Tags: Long Covid Coronavirus Infectious diseases Medical research Microbiology Science UK news Source Type: news
Equatorial Guinea Confirms First Outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease
DAKAR, Senegal — The World Health Organization says that Equatorial Guinea has confirmed its first-ever outbreak of Marburg disease, saying the Ebola-related virus is responsible for at least nine deaths in the tiny Western African country.
In a statement on Monday, the U.N. health agency confirmed the epidemic after samples from Equatorial Guinea were sent to a lab in Senegal to pinpoint the cause of disease after an alert from a local health official last week.
The WHO said there were currently nine deaths and 16 suspected cases with symptoms including fever, fatigue, diarrhea and vomiting. The agency said it was s...
Source: TIME: Health - February 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized Disease healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
What Is Marburg? What You Need To Know About The Deadly Virus Detected In Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea confirmed the country’s first outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus on Monday, placing it on high alert months after another outbreak was reported in Ghana as experts scramble to contain the highly infectious Ebola-like disease for which there is no approved vaccine or treatment.…#equatorialguinea #ghana #marburg #westafrica #african #africa #cdc #frankfurt #belgrade #yugoslavia (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What Is Marburg? What You Need To Know About The Deadly Virus Detected In Equatorial Guinea
There are no treatments or vaccines approved for Marburg, a virus in the same family as Ebola with a fatality rate between 24% to 88%. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - February 14, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Robert Hart, Forbes Staff Tags: Business /business Innovation /innovation Healthcare /healthcare Science /science Breaking breaking-news Source Type: news
Experimental NIH Sudan virus vaccine protects macaques
New inoculation based on Ebola VSV vaccine concept. (Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases)
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - February 3, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news
