Contagion

CDC - Quarantine Station Contact List, Map, and Fact Sheets

Sat, 2014-08-02 10:29 — Kathy Gilbeaux

cdc.gov - http://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/quarantinestationcontactlistfull.html

Twenty U.S. Quarantine Stations, located at ports of entry and land border crossings, use these public health practices as part of a comprehensive Quarantine System that serves to limit the introduction of infectious diseases into the United States and to prevent their spread.

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Quarantine Stations Set Up at US Airports

Fri, 2014-08-01 23:54 — Kathy Gilbeaux

At LAX and other U.S. airports, CDC quarantine officers are on alert, looking for infected passengers.

abc7.com - by Robert Holguin - August 1, 2014

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- An Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 700 people in West Africa has prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue an advisory against non-essential travel to the region.

At Los Angeles International Airport and other U.S. airports, CDC quarantine officers are on alert, looking for infected passengers. . .

. . . The CDC operates quarantine stations at airports across the U.S., including at Los Angeles International Airport, to respond to reports of illness or death.

Officers are trained to spot symptoms of Ebola, and anyone who departs from a flight from an affected country and appears to have symptoms would be tested. If they test positive, they would be rushed to a hospital and quarantined.

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Possible Evacuation of Americans Infected with Ebola Triggers Fears in U.S.

Fri, 2014-08-01 22:02 — Kathy Gilbeaux

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention outfitted a Gulfstream jet with an isolation pod designed and built by the U.S. Defense Department, the CDC and a private company. The pod, officially called an Aeromedical Biological Containment System, is a portable, tentlike device that ensures the flight crew and others on the flight remain safe from an infectious disease.

kfor.com - by Laura Noland - August 1, 2014

ATLANTA (CNN) — When a plane took off from Georgia to meet two American missionaries fighting to survive Ebola hemorrhagic fever in West Africa, a small epidemic ignited on social media in the United States: Fear.

The medical charter flight that departed Cartersville on Thursday could bring Nancy Writebol or Dr. Kent Brantly back to a treatment facility up the street from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. . .

. . . If the plane returns with them lying in the microbial containment system erected in its bay, it will be the first known time that someone infected with Ebola has crossed into the United States.

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UTMB researchers receive over $6 million to develop treatment for deadly Ebola and Marburg viruses

Thu, 2014-07-31 21:56 — Elhadj Drame

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CDC - Avoid Nonessential Travel to Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone

Thu, 2014-07-31 20:51 — Kathy Gilbeaux

cdc.gov - July 31, 2014

CDC urges all US residents to avoid nonessential travel to Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone because of an unprecedented outbreak of Ebola.

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notices

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Poor Oversight Catches Up with High-Security Infectious Agent and Disease Labs

Fri, 2014-07-18 23:26 — Kathy Gilbeaux

The Centers for Disease Control plans to take measures to better protect lab workers and the rest of us from dangerous biological samples

scientificamerican.com - by Dina Fine Maron - July 17, 2014

Twenty-one dead lab chickens piled up this spring at a government facility before its researchers could pinpoint why. The team had requested and received what was meant to be a relatively harmless strain of avian flu. Instead, the virus killed all the test birds during experiments.

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Smartphone attachment detects viruses and bacteria

Mon, 2013-09-23 18:10 — gl

theengineer.co.uk - The Engineer - September 18, 2013

Researchers at UCLA have developed a portable smartphone attachment that can be used to perform field testing to detect viruses and bacteria.

This cellphone-based imaging platform could be used for specific and sensitive detection of sub-wavelength objects, including bacteria and viruses and therefore could enable the practice of nanotechnology and biomedical testing in field settings and even in remote and resource-limited environments,’ Aydogan Ozcan, professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, said in a statement.

Using this device, which attaches directly to the camera module on a smartphone, Ozcan’s team was able to detect single human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) particles.

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H7N9 Bird Flu in China Likely Spread Between People, Researchers Find

Tue, 2013-08-06 09:30 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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bmj.com - nbcnews.com - reuters - by Kate Kelland
August 6, 2013

CLICK HERE - BMJ - Research - Probable person to person transmission of novel avian influenza A (H7N9) virus in Eastern China, 2013: epidemiological investigation

LONDON - The first scientific analysis of probable human-to-human transmission of a deadly new strain of bird flu that emerged in China this year gives the strongest evidence yet that the H7N9 virus can pass between people, scientists said on Wednesday.

Research published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) analyzing a family cluster of cases of H7N9 infection in eastern China found it was very likely the virus "transmitted directly from the index patient (a 60-year-old man) to his daughter."

Experts commenting on the research said while it did not necessarily mean H7N9 is any closer to becoming the next flu pandemic, "it does provide a timely reminder of the need to remain extremely vigilant."

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H7N9 Map

Sun, 2013-04-07 16:38 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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Click on each balloon for more information on individual patients infected with the avian flu virus: blue, patients infected with the H7N9 virus under treatment; red, those infected with H7N9 who have died; and pink, those infect with the H1N1 avian flu virus.

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1208847/hong-kong-standby-new-bird-flu-cases-revealed-shanghai

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