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CDC: Measles Outbreak Has Overseas Source
2015-01-30 16:39:07| Biotech - Topix.net
It's a small world after all: The measles outbreak that has spread from Disneyland probably began with a foreign visitor to the California park or an American who became infected overseas, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials. The chief of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases says the outbreak, which involves a measles strain similar to ones seen in Indonesia, Qatar, Azerbaijan, and Dubai, "is a wake-up call to make sure that we keep measles from regaining a foothold in our country," NBC reports.
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Exclusive: CDC installing cameras in labs in agency-wide safety push
2015-01-29 16:39:04| Biotech - Topix.net
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has introduced camera monitoring of workers in its highest-level biosafety laboratories as it seeks to restore public faith in its procedures after a series of mishaps, agency officials tell Reuters. One lab worker inadvertently risked contracting Ebola last month when they worked with the live virus that was supposed to have been inactivated, or killed.
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Quest Diagnostics, CDC collaborate to reduce deaths from hepatitis
2015-01-29 04:10:24| Biotech - Topix.net
Quest Diagnostics , the world's leading provider of diagnostic information services, today announced that it will collaborate with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to identify trends in screening, diagnosis and treatment for four strains of viral hepatitis in the United States, based on insights revealed by analysis of Quest's national testing database. Under terms of the multi-year contract, Quest Diagnostics will provide CDC researchers with analytics expertise and access to the company's national Quest Diagnostics Health Trends database of de-identified clinical testing hepatitis data.
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CDC Lab Worker Has No Sign of Ebola Infection, Agency Says
2015-01-14 21:51:55| Biotech - Topix.net
A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lab technician who may have been exposed to the Ebola virus in an agency laboratory in Atlanta last month did not get sick, agency officials said Tuesday. The possible exposure occurred Dec. 22 when CDC scientists doing research on Ebola mistakenly transferred a sample of the potentially lethal virus to another CDC lab in the same building.
No sign of Ebola for CDC lab worker feared exposed weeks ago
2015-01-14 13:42:47| Biotech - Topix.net
Ebola symptoms usually strike within three weeks of infection. Officials on Tuesday said the employee at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn't shown any symptoms since the incident Dec. 22. Officials feared the technician may have been accidentally exposed when a small amount of live Ebola virus was moved into a CDC lab in Atlanta.
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