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Today's Headlines: October 11, 2016 
 
Zika Virus

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. Go to article

Zika Virus Highly Likely to Spread in Asia, Says WHO (BBC News) In a report released on Monday at its annual meeting in Manila, the WHO said it is "highly likely that the region will continue to report new cases and possibly new outbreaks of Zika". Go to article

Zika 'Syndrome': Health Problems Mount as Babies Turn 1 (New York Times) Two weeks shy of his 1st birthday, doctors began feeding Jose Wesley Campos through a nose tube because swallowing problems had left him dangerously underweight. Go to article

Six More Mosquito-Borne Zika Infections Reported in Miami-Dade (Miami Herald) Florida health officials on Monday reported 6 more mosquito-borne Zika infections in Miami-Dade County, including 2 cases linked to Miami Beach and 1 involving an out-of-state resident likely exposed to the virus in Wynwood in July. Go to article


Biological Agents & Infectious Diseases

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. Go to article

Polio Cases Reach 8 in Afghanistan So Far This Year: Official (Xinhua Net) The number of polio cases recorded in Afghanistan has risen to 8 this year with a new confirmed case, the country's Public Health Ministry said on Monday. Go to article

China Reports H5N6 in Poultry; Study Finds High H5N1 Seroprevalence (CIDRAP) Chinese officials yesterday reported 2 outbreaks of highly pathogenic H5N6 avian flu, while a study out of Indonesia reports that 84% of Indonesian poultry workers have evidence of previous infection with H5N1 avian flu in their bloodstream. Go to article


Government Affairs & National Security

With the End of An Immigration Program Comes Ebola Fears for West Africans in the US (STAT News) West Africans given temporary immigration protection in the US at the height of the Ebola outbreak may have to leave next May, despite fears the virus is still lurking in their homelands. Go to article


Global Health Security

Outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Niger Risk for the European Union (ECDC) The current Rift Valley fever outbreak in Niger does not pose a new risk for the European Union. Go to article

Haiti Needs 'Massive Response' to Halt Cholera Crisis after Matthew: UN (NBC News) Many parts of Haiti devastated by Hurricane Matthew were still without aid early Tuesday, as the UN launched an emergency appeal for almost $120 milion in life-saving help for 750,000 survivors at risk of starvation or cholera. Go to article

See also: WHO Sending 1 Million Cholera Vaccine Doses to Haiti (Reuters) The WHO is sending 1 million doses of cholera vaccine to Haiti, where more than 200 cases of the killer disease have been reported since Hurricane Matthew. Go to article

Haiti after Hurricane Matthew: Which NGOs are Doing What and Where (H5N1) Reference map showing agency activities by Commune in Grande Anse, Sud and Nippes. Go to article


Medicine & Public Health

Mapping Plasmodium falciparum Mortality in Africa Between 1990 and 2015 (The New England Journal of Medicine) Malaria control has not been routinely informed by the assessment of subnational variation in malaria deaths. We combined data from the Malaria Atlas Project and the Global Burden of Disease Study to estimate malaria mortality across sub-Saharan Africa on a grid of 5 km2 from 1990 through 2015. Go to article


Science & Technology

Genome Editing/Genome Engineering Market Worth 5.54 Billion USD by 2021 (PR Newswire) This report studies the global Genome Editing Market for the forecast period of 2016 to 2021; it analyzes and studies the major market drivers, restraints/challenges, and opportunities. The global Genome Editing Market is segmented on the basis of technology, application, end user and region. Go to article

'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. Go to article


Other 21st Century Threats

Perdue to End Use of Animal-Only Antibiotics in Chicken Production (CIDRAP) One of the nation's leading broiler chicken producers says it's going to eliminate the use of animal-only antibiotics in its chicken production. Go to article

Italian Troops in Iraq are Trying to Prevent a watery Catastrophe (War is Boring) Italy has deployed helicopters, drones, fighter jets and more than 1,300 troops for the war on ISIS in Iraq. Rome's contingent includes a battalion of 450 elite soldiers whose job it is to safeguard the strategic Mosul Dam while an Italian engineering firm undertakes critical repairs. Go to article

'Extremely Dangerous' Flooding to Grip NC for Days, Governor Warns (Washington Post) Parts of North Carolina will remain under dangerous flood risk for at least the next 3 days, the state's governor said Tuesday, as officials urged people to seek higher ground and flee lowlands below a major dam straining to hold back water levels swollen by Hurricane Matthew. Go to article
 
Venezuela on the Brink: A Journey through a Country in a Crisis (The Guardian) The oil-rich South American nation should be prospering. Instead it stands on the edge of an economic and humanitarian abyss. Go to article

Preparedness Pulsepoints: October 11, 2016

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