Study Links Ebola Outbreaks To Animal Carcasses
All recent Ebola virus outbreaks in humans in forests between Gabon and the Republic of Congo were the result of handling infected wild animal carcasses, according to a study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and its regional partners. Appearing in the February edition of the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, the study found that many animal carcasses tested for Ebola between 2001 an...HIV vaccine trial breaks ground for future research
The results of the world's first phase 3 HIV vaccine efficacy trial are reported in the March 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online. Although the vaccine was ineffective in preventing HIV infection, the trial represents a landmark in the fight against HIV and offers the scientific community a foundation on which to build future trials. The multi-centered tria...Poaching, logging, and outbreaks of Ebola threaten central African gorillas and chimpanzees
Experts call for $30 million action plan to save mankind's closest relatives An action plan drafted by more than 70 primatologists and other experts who met in B...New tools used to control foodborne hepatitis A outbreaks related to green onions
Novel use of genetic testing methods helped public health officials control and limit the further spread of four outbreaks of foodborne hepatitis A virus in 2003 related to the consumption of green onions, according to a detailed analysis published in the October 15 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online. The authors of the study, Joseph J. Amon, PhD, MSPH, and c...Breaks in hibernation help fight bugs
A habit in some animals to periodically wake up while hibernating may be an evolutionary mechanism to fight bacterial infection, according to researchers at Penn State. The finding could offer an insight into the spread and emergence of infectious disease in wildlife, and has potential implications for human health. Many warm-blooded animals slip into an inert sleep-like state as part o...Promega breaks ground for new office building
The $22 million project will take up 84,000 square feet located near Cheryl Parkway and Fish Hatchery Road, 62,000 of which will be occupied by Promega and 22,000 of which will be re...Visions: Chicago software exec Jason Fried breaks (almost) all the rules
There is a method to alleged madn...VoIP breaks out, but let's hope it doesn't become a verb
) that lets me make peer-to-peer voice calls from my computer to anyone else on the Skype platform. My interest in the product wasnt purely theoretical. Certa...Lucigen Receives Funding, Breaks New Ground with Enzyme Research
Madison, Wis. - Sometimes the small things do count. Lucigen Corporation, which specializes in microbial enzyme cloning, has recently received $300,000 in initial investor funding. The Middleton, Wis.-based company plans to generate a total of $1 million through equity financing and a grant in order to continue to develo...El Ni?o cycles linked to cholera outbreaks
About 11 months after the start of an El Ni?o event in the equatorial Pacific, hospitals thousands of miles away in Bangladesh can expect a surge of cholera cases, according to the first mathematical model to link climatic cycles with subsequent cholera outbreaks. Details of the climate-disease model are reported in the latest issue of the journal Science by ecologists at C...Grapes, Melons Implicated in Outbreaks
According to researchers , there is a new study on seedless green grapes which caused a salmonella outbreak that sickened 30 people across six Western states last summer and fall. Researchers were surprised to find that the outbreak of Salmonella serotype senftenberg// most often found in meats and poultry was outwardly spread to people through grapes. Dr.Alicia, at the International C...Unhappy relationships could result in more than just heart breaks!
Relationships are the key to survival on planet earth. Every one of us knows and understands that happy relationships can make for happy living. But how many of us know that the continuous //tension of a distressed intimate relationship can raise blood pressure, continuously over a 24 hour period? According to a new study by researchers in Canada, when intimate relationships become strained, ther...