Lab Constraints Delay Zika Test Results (
Medical Xpress) Houston-based Legacy Community Health Services , a federally qualified health center, is trying hard to fight the Zika virus. It's screening pregnant women and following federal guidelines to test people at risk.
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The Next Zika (
Scientific American) Disease detectives are on the lookout for obscure viruses that can be spread among people by traveling insects, and quickly become a widespread problem. Scientific papers are filled with illnesses to watch.
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'Biorights' Rise: Donors Demand Control of Their Samples (
Boston Globe) Mary O'Connor had long wanted researchers to decipher her genetic code to better understand a deadly heart condition that runs in her family. But the 52-year-old Nantucket woman balked at providing a saliva or blood sample to researchers because they would neither promise to give her the results nor pay her for her trouble.
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