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People Are Contracting Flesh-Eating Bacteria at the Beach
VICE - Rajul Punjabi
This is how scared you should be. Necrotizing fasciitis (or NF, the clinical term for flesh-eating bacteria) is an infection caused by swimming in infected water—and it’s very rare. Like, a few hundred
The Next Plague Is Coming. Is America Ready?
The Atlantic - Ed Yong
The epidemics of the early 21st century revealed a world unprepared, even as the risks continue to multiply. Much worse is coming. Image above: Workers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center's biocontainment
Here's where Ebola could spread based on flight patterns
CNBC - Angelica LaVito
An Ebola outbreak is emerging in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and a nonprofit that studies infectious diseases identified where it could spread …
What is Nipah virus?
NBC News - By Maggie Fox
“It’s the worst disease no one has ever heard of.” Nipah virus is suspecting of killing at least 10 people in southwestern India, including a nurse caring for patients, according to officials there. The
Ebola Outbreak Reaches Crowded City, Prompting Use of Experimental Vaccine
Inverse - Mary von Aue
A city outbreak is not just any outbreak. Although the World Health Organization (WHO) is not labeling the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic …
WHO raises Ebola health risk to 'very high' in Congo, not yet international emergency
CNN - By Euan McKirdy and Meera Senthilingam, CNN
(CNN) — The World Health Organization said in an emergency meeting Friday that the conditions for a Public Health Emergency of International Concern have not been met in the Democratic Republic of Congo,
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Experimental Ebola vaccine could be 'game-changer' in Congo outbreak
CNN - By Jacqueline Howard, CNN
(CNN) — Health officials remain hopeful that an experimental Ebola vaccine will help control the outbreak sweeping the Democratic Republic of Congo in central Africa. Since April 4, 45 hemorrhagic fever
Mumps, Measles, And Whooping Cough Are Making A Serious Comeback
Women's Health - By Amanda Woerner
Vaccinations are your friend, people. It's a virus. You'll just have to wait it out. That's what Jess Butler was told when she went to her GP last November with a dry cough. Two weeks later, the 29-year-old
Doctors raise alarm about ancient HTLV-1 virus: 'Prevalence is off the charts' in Australia
CNN - By Jacqueline Howard, CNN
(CNN) — An ancient virus infecting residents across Australia's Northern Territory is leaving death and despair in its path, and doctors are now calling for greater efforts to stop the spread of infections.
10 million lives could be lost to superbugs – so how far have we got in the race to beat them?
The Telegraph - By Lois Rogers
British scientists claim they have beaten more than a dozen rival teams around the world in the race towards a new synthetic antibiotic. They hope that the agent – an improved version of a natural antibiotic
Inside the secret U.S. stockpile meant to save us all in a bioterror attack
The Washington Post
A SECRET LOCATION OUTSIDE WASHINGTON, D.C. — From the outside, it looks like an ordinary commercial warehouse, only much bigger, about the size of two super Walmarts. Inside it’s dark except when motion
CDC Finds 'Nightmare Bacteria' Across the U.S. Here's What That Means
TIME - By Alexandra Sifferlin
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a growing public health problem, as infections are becoming less responsive to the drugs used to treat them. Now, a …
Scientists warn of mysterious and deadly new epidemic called Disease X that could kill millions around the world
mirror.co.uk - Tim Wyatt
An unknown and deadly new illness dubbed Disease X has been added to the list of potential global epidemics that could kill millions. Each year …
Beware 'Disease X': the mystery killer keeping scientists awake at night
The Telegraph - By Alanna Shaikh
Over two days in early February, the World Health Organisation (WHO) convened an expert committee at its Geneva headquarters to consider the unthinkable. The goal was to identify pathogens with the potential
Lassa fever: The killer disease with no vaccine
bbc.co.uk - By Dr Charlie Weller
Since the beginning of the year, Nigeria has been gripped by an outbreak of a deadly disease. Lassa fever is one of a number of illnesses which can cause dangerous epidemics, but for which no vaccine exists.
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Tennessee mother and daughter among first humans to be infected by rat virus
katu.com - Adrian Mojica, WSYX
Tennessee and 10 other states are home to the first known cases of humans infected by a rat virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and …
Holiday insect bite left young woman fighting for life and bedbound
dailypost.co.uk - Lorna Hughes
A young woman who was bitten by an insect while on a family holiday was left needing a wheelchair and fighting for her life. Samantha Calby’s health …
India's farmed chickens dosed with world's strongest antibiotics, study finds
The Guardian - Fiona Harvey
Chickens raised in India for food have been dosed with some of the strongest antibiotics known to medicine, in practices that could have repercussions throughout the world. Hundreds of tonnes of an “antibiotic
Girl, 9, dies from new eye-bleeding fever ‘more dangerous than the Black Death’
metro.co.uk - Richard Hartley-Parkinson
A young girl has died from an eye-bleeding disease that some people have said could turn out to be more deadly than the Black Death which struck last …
This Incredible Virus Attacks Brain Cancer And Actually Boosts Our Immune System
Science Alert - MICHELLE STARR
The first therapeutic virus to pass the blood-brain barrier. A study attempting to show that viruses could be delivered to brain tumours has delivered …
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Alarm as 'super malaria' spreads in South East Asia
bbc.co.uk - By James Gallagher
The rapid spread of "super malaria" in South East Asia is an alarming global threat, scientists are warning. This dangerous form of the malaria parasite cannot be killed with the main anti-malaria drugs.
Poliovirus kills off cancer cells, stops tumor regrowth
Medical News Today - By Ana Sandoiu
Researchers from Duke University in Durham, NC, may have discovered a new way of killing off cancer cells. The team was jointly led by Dr. Matthias …
Crowdsourcing Offers A New Hope For Antibiotics Research
curiosity.com - Cody Gough
The need for new antibiotics is real, with no new types of antibiotics having been discovered or developed since 1984. The World Health Organization …
Triple Threat: New Pneumonia Is Drug-Resistant, Deadly And Contagious
NPR - Michaeleen Doucleff
In the past few years, there have been so many "superbugs" appearing in hospitals around the world that we here at Goats and Soda haven't had the time or resources to report on all of them. But a new of
Brain-Eating Amoeba Found In Louisiana Tap Water; People Warned To Avoid Water In Nose | HuffPost Life
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The consumerization of healthcare
TechCrunch - Sam Myers
Recently, I registered with the GP across the road from my flat. I’ve lived there for a year. I had put off registering beforehand due to a severe allergy to bureaucracy. Last year, I wanted to go see
A small drugmaker is taking an entirely new approach to getting its cancer drug approved
Business Insider - Bill Berkrot
The drug, larotrectinib, directly targets an acquired rather than inherited genetic defect called TRK fusions. In such patients, TRK genes abnormally attach to other genes, triggering accelerated cancer
Antibiotics Surprisingly Ineffective on Pneumonia
Healthline - Written by Gigen Mammoser
People with pneumonia are failing treatment at an alarming rate, and doctors are in for a wake-up call. Pneumonia is already the eighth leading cause …
Seven reasons we're at more risk than ever of a global pandemic
CNN - By Meera Senthilingam, CNN
(CNN) — It could take just one cough, one kiss, one touch or even one bite to change not only your life, but the lives of everyone around you -- and for months or even years. In most cases, the closer