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Torrential rains trigger flooding, mudslides, additional cholera cases in Haiti

"At least 20 people have died due to torrential downpours in Haiti, authorities said Tuesday, and aid agencies are scrambling to respond to a resurgence of cholera triggered by the heavy rain," CNN reports.

9 Jun 2011

UNICEF appealing for $6M to continue water treatment in Zimbabwe

UNICEF on Wednesday said it needs $6 million to continue treating water in Zimbabwe, which does not have the funds to do it on its own, Deutsche Presse-Agentur/M&C reports.

3 Jun 2011

Mass vaccination strategy could prevent future cholera epidemics in Zimbabwe

Mathematical models analyzing how a cholera outbreak spread in Zimbabwe are providing new insights into the most effective vaccination strategies for preventing future cholera epidemics, according to University of Florida researchers.

3 Jun 2011

Small increases in temperature, rainfall amount can predict cholera outbreaks, study says

Small increases in temperature and rainfall amount may be able to predict cholera outbreaks in some areas, according to a study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Agence France-Presse reports.

2 Jun 2011

Scientists find increases in rain and temperature could signal deadly cholera outbreaks months before they strike

With recent deadly cholera outbreaks in Haiti and Cameroon providing the latest indication of a menacingly resurgent disease, scientists have discovered rain and temperature fluctuations in at-risk areas could predict epidemics months in advance, according to a new study published today in the June 2011 issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

1 Jun 2011

Doctors report hundreds of new cholera cases in Dominican Republic

A cholera outbreak in the Dominican Republic appears to be spreading, and health officials are reporting hundreds of new cases, the Associated Press/Washington Post reports.

25 May 2011

World Health Assembly could pass resolutions asking governments to improve water, sanitation, IPS reports

Inter Press Service reports on the possibility that the World Health Assembly "could adopt landmark resolutions asking governments to improve water and sanitation to eradicate cholera and guinea worm," the latter of which exists in only four countries - Ghana, Mali, Ethiopia and Sudan.

21 May 2011

Dominican Republic health officials raise alerts about possible cholera outbreaks

Health authorities have raised alerts in 17 "mainly poor" neighborhoods in the Dominican Republic capital of Santo Domingo after 16 people were hospitalized with suspected cholera, BBC News reports.

20 May 2011

Early rainy season brings cholera to Cameroon's capital

An early rainy season has caused cholera to sweep through Cameroon's capital Yaounde, "causing more than 250 deaths in two months alone, according to the government," AlertNet reports.

18 May 2011

New research demonstrates how geographic profiling can help combat infectious diseases

Every 30 seconds, infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis kill as many people as Jack the Ripper did in his entire career. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal International Journal of Health Geographics demonstrates how the mathematical model of geographic profiling, used in the hunt for serial killers, can help combat infectious diseases.

18 May 2011

Bill Gates urges wiser vaccine coverage worldwide to save millions

Tuesday this week, Bill Gates called for strengthened immunization programs against infectious diseases to save 4 million lives by 2015 and 10 million lives by 2020, calling it the best possible investment in global health. He was addressing the annual assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, attended by health ministers from the U.N. agency's 193 member states.

17 May 2011

Opinion: Haiti's cholera epidemic endures

"The United Nations' overall appeal to respond to the [Haiti cholera] epidemic, for $175 million, is 48 percent financed. Haiti's continuing health emergency may have been overlooked in a crush of world events, but while the sick and dying are waiting for the world to respond, the disease is not".

13 May 2011

Opinions: Democracy needed in epidemic outbreaks; U.S. food aid; development partnerships in Africa

After mentioning the riots that broke out in Haiti after the start of the cholera epidemic last year, Richard Evans, a professor of history and president of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge, writes in a Guardian opinion piece that "popular disturbances during epidemics are nothing new." He goes on to provide several other examples.

10 May 2011

World's first urine-based tuberculosis diagnostics tool

Biomagnetics Diagnostics Corp., a developer of revolutionary diagnostics systems and technology for HIV, hepatitis, tuberculosis, cholera and malaria detection, and other innovative technologies, in a new video today unveiled the world's first urine-based tuberculosis diagnostics tool.

9 May 2011

'Confluence of circumstances' resulted in Haitian cholera outbreak, U.N.-appointed panel says

Haiti's cholera outbreak, which started last October, "was caused by a South Asian strain that contaminated a river where tens of thousands of people wash, bath, drink and play," a report from an independent U.N.-appointed panel said on Wednesday, the Associated Press reports.

6 May 2011

UCF to develop safe, inexpensive and effective polio vaccine

An innovative way of making vaccines at the University of Central Florida has attracted the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for its potential to make vaccines lessexpensive, more effective and needle free.

5 May 2011

iOWH, Center for World Health and Medicine partner to combat childhood diarrhea

The Center for World Health and Medicine at Saint Louis University and the Institute for OneWorld Health have established a joint research agreement to develop new drugs to combat diarrhea, which is the second leading cause of death worldwide in children under age 5.

4 May 2011

Cote d'Ivoire in need of additional humanitarian assistance, on verge of health crisis, U.N. agency says

Though post-election violence in Cote d'Ivoire has ended, thousands of people remain in need of humanitarian assistance, including health care, education, water, shelter and protection, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement (.pdf) on Wednesday, the U.N. News Centre reports.

30 Apr 2011

Biomagnetics accepts Los Alamos National Labs' optical biosensor for disease diagnosis

Biomagnetics Diagnostics Corp., a developer of revolutionary diagnostic systems and technology for HIV, hepatitis, tuberculosis, cholera and malaria detection, and other innovative technologies, today announced it has accepted delivery of the world's first integrated optical biosensor for disease diagnosis.

27 Apr 2011

Recent releases in Global Health

When health ministers gather for the World Health Assembly in May they will try to come up with a solution to "a dilemma that has dogged decision-makers for decades - whether and when to destroy the last remaining stocks of the smallpox virus," David Heymann and Emma Ross, both of the Global Health Security Centre at Chatham House, write in an article in The World Today.

25 Apr 2011

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Torrential rains trigger flooding, mudslides, additional cholera cases in Haiti

UNICEF appealing for $6M to continue water treatment in Zimbabwe

Mass vaccination strategy could prevent future cholera epidemics in Zimbabwe

Small increases in temperature, rainfall amount can predict cholera outbreaks, study says

Scientists find increases in rain and temperature could signal deadly cholera outbreaks months before they strike

Doctors report hundreds of new cholera cases in Dominican Republic

World Health Assembly could pass resolutions asking governments to improve water, sanitation, IPS reports

Dominican Republic health officials raise alerts about possible cholera outbreaks

Early rainy season brings cholera to Cameroon's capital

New research demonstrates how geographic profiling can help combat infectious diseases

Bill Gates urges wiser vaccine coverage worldwide to save millions

Opinion: Haiti's cholera epidemic endures

Opinions: Democracy needed in epidemic outbreaks; U.S. food aid; development partnerships in Africa

World's first urine-based tuberculosis diagnostics tool

'Confluence of circumstances' resulted in Haitian cholera outbreak, U.N.-appointed panel says

UCF to develop safe, inexpensive and effective polio vaccine

iOWH, Center for World Health and Medicine partner to combat childhood diarrhea

Cote d'Ivoire in need of additional humanitarian assistance, on verge of health crisis, U.N. agency says

Biomagnetics accepts Los Alamos National Labs' optical biosensor for disease diagnosis

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