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When the Flu Shot Isn’t Enough
January 18, 2013 An adolescent receives an immunization. (Credit: James Gathany - CDC/Judy Schmidt)Over the days following the holiday season, flu season arrived early for most of the United States....
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Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Second Part of Bond V US
January 24, 2013 The Supreme Court of the United States. (Credit: Architect of the Capitol)On January 18th, 2013, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the second part of the Bond v. US case. In 2011, the...
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Preparing to be Unprepared: What Sequestration Will Mean for Public Health...
February 28, 2013 2008 CDC Preparedness Exercise - CDC quarantine officer Danitza Tomianovic enters a plane in order to assess the status of an ill traveler at the Miami International Airport....
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Pilgrims and Pandemics: Hajj, Umrah, and MERS-CoV
July 9, 2013 Transmission electron micrograph of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus. Courtesy: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.“The novel coronavirus is a threat to the...
View ArticleThe International Health Regulations (2005) and MERS
July 17, 2013 By: Andrea Vaught; Julie Fischer, PhD; Rebecca Katz, PhD, MPH In the spring of 2012, human cases of a novel coronavirus infection emerged in the Middle East, with fatal cases in Jordan in...
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Tuberculosis: How Bioterrorism Preparedness Helps Public Health Combat an...
August 5, 2013A physician and nurse examine a tuberculosis positive chest x-ray. (Credit: CDC/Charles Farmer) Early in June 2013, two new Tuberculosis (TB) cases were diagnosed in Robert E. Lee High...
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Possible Polio Cases in War-Torn Syria: The Implications for Health Security
October 24, 2013An infant receives an oral polio vaccine. (Credit: PAHO/WHO) Since the beginning of the Syrian civil war in March 2011, over 115,000 people have died, including 10,000 women and...
View ArticleWHO Declares Second PHEIC
During the past six months, wild poliovirus has spread internationally from three States: Pakistan to Afghanistan, Syria to Iraq, and Cameroon to Equatorial Guinea. The World Health Organization (WHO)...
View Article2014 West Africa Ebola Outbreak: Travel-Related Policies & Measures
This is a collation of the official travel related policies and measures that have been taken by various countries and Airlines (International SOS) around the world in response to the Ebola epidemic in...
View ArticleThe Hollow Impact of the Ebola Travel Bans
Varied travel policies and measures in response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak expose lack of consistency with uptake of evidence-based recommendations January 2015 The 2014-2015 West Africa Ebola Virus...
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