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Federal public health officials recently contacted clinicians at the Nebraska Biocontainment Patient Care Unit in Omaha to determine if the facility could house Ebola patients if needed as the record outbreak in Western Africa continues.
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The most shocking of the recent laboratory mishaps and biosafety breaches was the discovery of a long-forgotten cache of live smallpox in a lab storage area at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.
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As the first two cases of Ebola ever treated in the U.S. were recently admitted to a special containment unit at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, clinicians and public health officials continued to reassure a jittery public that infection control measures would prevent transmission and contain the virus.
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The ongoing record outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa is killing six out of every ten people infected. And that, grimly enough, is the good news.
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A series of biosafety breaches in federal labs working with highly pathogenic agents has created a rift in the research community, with some calling for a moratorium until safety can be assured and other scientists arguing that this important work should continue with appropriate precautions to prepare for pandemics and bioterror attacks.
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Approximately half of blood cultures taken from febrile infants with bacteremia turn positive within 15 hours of sampling.
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A prospective case series that included patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection found that treatment with tapered antibiotic therapy and the probiotic drink kefir resulted in a clinical cure of 84% (21 out of 25 patients).
