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Publication Date: December 17, 2020
Post Date: December 17, 2020The US Department of Defense (DoD) will invest heavily in biotechnology as part of the United States strategic competition with China.
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Publication Date: December 17, 2020
Post Date: December 17, 2020For two years in a row, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reported an increase in the amount of medically important antibiotics sold for use in livestock.
Publication Date: December 11, 2020
Post Date: December 11, 2020This blog post explores how economical and easy it is to recycle personal protective equipment (PPE) in order to mitigate PPE shortages.
Tags: healthcare PPEPPE best practicepersonal protective equipment
Publication Date: December 11, 2020
Post Date: December 11, 2020The most recent surge of coronavirus patients in South Korea has prompted Seoul to start installing container beds for the first time during the pandemic.
Publication Date: December 11, 2020
Post Date: December 11, 2020Highly pathogenic bird flu, a H5 subtype, has spread to nine of Japan's forty-seven prefectures. The outbreak has resulted in nearly three million birds culled.
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Publication Date: December 11, 2020
Post Date: December 11, 2020There is a reported outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) at the industrial Severny Klyuch farm in Samara region of Russia.
Publication Date: December 10, 2020
Post Date: December 10, 2020This report recommends new safety protocols and the development of new institutions to manage future biological risk in India.
Publication Date: December 10, 2020
Post Date: December 10, 2020Brazil's public health agency announced it may have recorded its first case of Candida auris. Candida auris is rare fungus that can cause drug-resistant infections and potential fatalities according to Brazils's health ministry.
Publication Date: December 8, 2020
Post Date: December 23, 2020As COVID-19 vaccine make its way across medical, responder, elderly, and high risk communities, a grandmother in the United Kingdom (UK) became the first person to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in the world. The UK Health Secretary has named the historic day "V-day" and stated "Today marks the start of the fightback against our common enemy, the coronavirus"
Tags: COVID-19
Publication Date: December 7, 2020
Post Date: December 7, 2020The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended, as interim guidance, that both 1) health care personnel and 2) residents of long-term care facilities be offered COVID-19 vaccine in the initial phase of the vaccination program.