New Circulating Vaccine-Derived Polio Virus and Wild Type Poliovirus Cases
Recently, there has been new cases of Circulating Vaccine-Derived Polio Virus 2 (cVDPV…
Top 10 Infectious Disease Outbreaks of 2017
Before the year end let’s rewind and go over the 10 biggest infectious disease outbrea…
Is a Virus Making me Sick?
We’ve all been there – we feel sick but we don’t know what’s causing it. Since upper r…
Lift of Federal Ban Allows for Creation and Research on Lethal Viruses
Ladies and gentlemen, a significant development has taken place in the area of researc…
You’re making me batty!
Recent studies on fruit bats in Australia have shown that humans are encroaching on ba…
“Come on, World. We can do this”
Polio has been eradicated! - or has it? As the World Health Organization reports, pol…
2 years later, the Zika babies of Brazil
When Zika virus first emerged, there was concern for the pregnant women in the affect…
Kentucky Schools to change vaccination requirements
As Hepatitis A outbreaks have seemed to be increasing over the past year, many educat…
Activia vs. the Flu: who will win?
If you thought probiotic yogurt was only here to help you digest, think again! Resear…