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Despite decline in cholera cases in Haiti, health authorities not doing enough, aid group says

"Global and local health authorities are not doing enough to fight a cholera outbreak that continues to claim lives in Haiti, Doctors Without Borders said Thursday," Agence France-Presse reports (6/15).

19 Jun 2012

Wellcome Trust awards University of Maryland $4M to accelerate development of conjugate NTS vaccine

The University of Maryland School of Medicine's Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) has received a $4 million Strategic Translation Award from the prestigious Wellcome Trust to support a collaboration with Bharat Biotech for clinical development of a new conjugate vaccine to prevent the potentially lethal infectious disease caused by invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella.

18 Jun 2012

Scientists solve 50-year mystery behind cholera

For 50 years scientists have been unsure how the bacteria that gives humans cholera manages to resist one of our basic innate immune responses. That mystery has now been solved, thanks to research from biologists at The University of Texas at Austin.

30 May 2012

Widespread cholera vaccination needed in Haiti while improvements made to water, sanitation systems

"As the world's worst outbreak of cholera continues to ravage Haiti, international donors have averted their gaze," a Washington Post editorial writes. The editorial notes that a "pilot project to vaccinate Haitians against the disease ... reached only one percent of the population, with no immediate prospect of expansion," and "of the 100 or so cholera treatment centers that sprang up around the country after the disease was detected 19 months ago, fewer than a third remain."

30 May 2012

Special feature of Science journal highlights protein array technology

A special feature in this week's issue of the journal Science highlights protein array technology, touching on research conducted by Joshua LaBaer, director of the Biodesign Institute's Virginia G. Piper Center for Personalized Diagnostics.

23 May 2012

Scientists decipher structure of bacterial injection needles at atomic resolution

The plague, bacterial dysentery, and cholera have one thing in common: These dangerous diseases are caused by bacteria which infect their host using a sophisticated injection apparatus. Through needle-like structures, they release molecular agents into their host cell, thereby evading the immune response.

21 May 2012

icddr,b, AmeriCares launch new cholera-fighting program in the Horn of Africa

AmeriCares and icddr,b have launched a new cholera-fighting program in the Horn of Africa, where recent rains have increased fears of large-scale outbreaks.

18 May 2012

U.N., international community should pledge to improve water, sanitation in Haiti to mitigate cholera epidemic

"The cholera epidemic in Haiti, which began in late 2010, is bad and getting worse, for reasons that are well understood and that the aid community has done far too little to resolve," a New York Times editorial states, adding that the "Pan American Health Organization has said the disease could strike 200,000 to 250,000 people this year" and "has already killed more than 7,000."

15 May 2012

Cholera strain in Haiti evolving, CDC reports

"The cholera strain in Haiti is evolving, researchers reported Thursday, a sign that it may be taking deeper root in the nation less than two years after it appeared and killed thousands of people," the Associated Press/USA Today reports.

8 May 2012

Efforts to fight cholera in DRC need to include sanitation, waste facility improvements, behavior change, UNICEF official says

A cholera epidemic that began in January 2011 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is continuing because of "poor hygiene, lack of awareness of the population about transmission mechanisms, very limited access to protected and monitored water sources and lack of sanitation infrastructure," according to Nona Zicherman, chief of emergency operations in DRC for UNICEF, IRIN reports.

2 May 2012

U.S. delegation expresses support for two vaccination campaigns while in Haiti

"A campaign to introduce new childhood vaccines to Haiti will save tens of thousands of lives over the next decade, CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden told NPR's health blog 'Shots' at the end of a two-day tour of the beleaguered country," the blog reports.

19 Apr 2012

Genetically modified mosquitoes offer hope of malaria eradication amid growing drug resistance

"In recent weeks, the emergence on the Thai-Myanmar border of malaria strains resistant to artemisinin, a plant-derived drug, have led to pessimistic headlines and reminders of the setback caused by resistance to the drug chloroquine, which began in the 1950s," columnist and author Matt Ridley writes in the Wall Street Journal's "Mind & Matter," noting, "April 25 is World Malaria Day, designed to draw attention to the planet's biggest infectious killer."

17 Apr 2012

Use of sewage-contaminated water to irrigate crops poses disease risk in Zimbabwe, IRIN reports

IRIN examines how local Zimbabwean farmers' usage of water containing raw sewage to irrigate their crops poses a risk of disease transmission to people who consume the vegetables.

17 Apr 2012

Cholera vaccination pilot project begins in Haiti

"A year and a half after cholera first struck Haiti, a tiny portion of the population on Thursday began getting vaccinated against the waterborne disease that has infected more than 530,000 Haitians and killed more than 7,040," the New York Times reports.

16 Apr 2012

Prepositioning of supplies, knowledge to handle disease outbreaks 'future of disaster management'

In this New York Times opinion piece, columnist Tina Rosenberg examines a global rise in cholera cases, writing, "The World Health Organization estimates that there are between three million and five million cases of cholera each year, and between 100,000 and 120,000 deaths. New and more virulent strains are emerging in Asia and Africa, and the WHO says that global warming creates even more hospitable conditions for the disease."

10 Apr 2012

Innovative tool for tracking movement of infectious diseases

It may seem like a game of tag, but it's an innovative tool for teaching the fundamentals of epidemiology, the science of how infectious diseases move through a population.

7 Apr 2012

U.N. reports increase in cholera cases in Haiti as rains begin

In a monthly bulletin on the humanitarian response in Haiti, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that an increase of new cholera cases has been recorded in the western and northern parts of the country and "that Haitian health officials recorded 77 new cases a day for the whole country in early March, when the rains began," the Associated Press/USA Today reports.

5 Apr 2012

Haitian cholera epidemic no place for 'good-guy/bad-guy distinctions'

In this Reuters opinion piece, finance blogger Felix Salmon responds to a New York Times (NYT) article published on Monday in which journalist Deborah Sontag examines the global response to Haiti's cholera epidemic.

4 Apr 2012

Rare T follicular helper cells essential for developing antibody responses to infectious agents

The characterisation of a rare immune cell's involvement in antibody production and ability to 'remember' infectious agents could help to improve vaccination and lead to new treatments for immune disorders, say researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute.

2 Apr 2012

New York Times examines global response to Haiti's cholera epidemic

The New York Times examines the global response to Haiti's cholera epidemic, writing that while "[m]any health officials consider the cholera response 'pretty remarkable,' as John Vertefeuille, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's director in Haiti, said ... [o]thers ... believe the bar for success was set too low and more lives could have been saved."

2 Apr 2012

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Despite decline in cholera cases in Haiti, health authorities not doing enough, aid group says

Wellcome Trust awards University of Maryland $4M to accelerate development of conjugate NTS vaccine

Scientists solve 50-year mystery behind cholera

Widespread cholera vaccination needed in Haiti while improvements made to water, sanitation systems

Special feature of Science journal highlights protein array technology

Scientists decipher structure of bacterial injection needles at atomic resolution

icddr,b, AmeriCares launch new cholera-fighting program in the Horn of Africa

U.N., international community should pledge to improve water, sanitation in Haiti to mitigate cholera epidemic

Cholera strain in Haiti evolving, CDC reports

Efforts to fight cholera in DRC need to include sanitation, waste facility improvements, behavior change, UNICEF official says

U.S. delegation expresses support for two vaccination campaigns while in Haiti

Genetically modified mosquitoes offer hope of malaria eradication amid growing drug resistance

Use of sewage-contaminated water to irrigate crops poses disease risk in Zimbabwe, IRIN reports

Cholera vaccination pilot project begins in Haiti

Prepositioning of supplies, knowledge to handle disease outbreaks 'future of disaster management'

Innovative tool for tracking movement of infectious diseases

U.N. reports increase in cholera cases in Haiti as rains begin

Haitian cholera epidemic no place for 'good-guy/bad-guy distinctions'

Rare T follicular helper cells essential for developing antibody responses to infectious agents

New York Times examines global response to Haiti's cholera epidemic

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