Is Texas A Hotspot For Outbreaks Of Vaccine-Preventable Disease?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2013/09/09/is-texas-a-hotspot-for-outbreaks-of-vaccine-preventable-disease/
The headlines might lead you to think that Texas is a hotbed of infection, threatened with measles and pocketed with pertussis. And you'd be right to some extent and left asking, What makes Texas so welcoming to infectious disease? Deep in the heart of ...
Satellite-Based Early Warnings Help Contain Cholera Outbreaks
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/test-and-measurement/satellitebased-early-warnings-help-contain-cholera-outbreaks?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrumFullText+(IEEE+Spectrum+Full+Text)
To most people living in the industrialized West, cholera is a relic of the 19th Century. But it is very much a 21st-Century problem, and researchers are using modern satellite imaging techniques to anticipate and short circuit new outbreaks. The ...
Outbreaks Make a Case for Vaccinations
http://www.texastribune.org/2013/09/09/outbreaks-make-case-vaccinations/
A measles outbreak in a vaccination-wary North Texas megachurch and soaring rates of whooping cough across the state are drawing renewed calls for immunization legislation, which some lawmakers and medical professionals argue would help the state ...
The rise of the digital epidemiologist: Using big data to track outbreaks and ...
http://business.financialpost.com/2013/09/10/the-rise-of-the-digital-epidemiologist-using-big-data-to-track-outbreaks-and-disasters/
There exists an organization that, using nothing more than the cellphone in your pocket, can track where you are ? and, with a certain degree of certainty, where you soon will be. But it isn't the National Security Agency (NSA), nor Canada's own ...
Disease Outbreaks From US Drinking Water Still Take Lives
http://www.livescience.com/39442-drinking-water-disease-outbreaks-us.html
Disease outbreaks due to drinking water aren't as common as they were, say, a century ago, but there are typically at least a dozen yearly in the United States, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Over the two ...
Texas Outbreaks Make a Case for Vaccinations
http://gantdaily.com/2013/09/10/texas-outbreaks-make-a-case-for-vaccinations/
Austin, TX, United States (KaiserHealth) ? A measles outbreak in a vaccination-wary North Texas megachurch and soaring rates of whooping cough across the state are drawing renewed calls for immunization legislation, which some lawmakers and medical ...
FDA Builds on Experience and Cooperation to Respond to Foodborne Illness ...
http://blogs.fda.gov/fdavoice/index.php/2013/09/fda-builds-on-experience-and-cooperation-to-respond-to-foodborne-illness-outbreaks/
Two years ago, FDA put the Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation (CORE) Network in place to improve the response to outbreaks of foodborne illness. In fact, the very day FDA announced the group's formation, CORE was already responding to ...
Africa and Pakistan Face Polio Outbreaks, in Blow to Global Fight
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/health/polio-outbreaks-seen-on-two-continents.html
The global effort to eradicate polio, a disease that has been on the brink of extinction for years, is facing serious setbacks on two continents. The virus is surging in Somalia and the Horn of Africa, which had been largely free of cases for several ...
