Oxford University begins human trials for the world's first AI-designed vaccine, targeting Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF), a deadly virus with 40% mortality rates and no widely approved vaccine, using AI to accelerate development by analyzing genetic data to identify immune response triggers.
Google's "Debug" project plans to release 64 million male mosquitoes carrying the Wolbachia bacteria in California and Florida over two years to reduce disease-carrying mosquito populations. The EPA is seeking public comment on the experimental use permit.
Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako attended the 100th anniversary ceremony of the Japan Society for Infectious Diseases in Tokyo on May 22. The society was founded in 1926 as the "Japan Society of Infectious Diseases" by scholars and clinicians to address a surge in diseases like dysentery, typhoid, and cholera following the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923.
The University of Nebraska is home to the only federally funded quarantine unit in the U.S. and a separate biocontainment unit that can treat people exposed to infectious diseases.
Two Singapore residents who were on board the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius are currently being isolated at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), where they are being tested for the virus. “Their test results are pending. One has a runny nose but is otherwise well, and the other is asymptomatic. The risk to the general public in Singapore is currently low,” the Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) said on Thursday. CDA said it was notified on Monday and Tuesday that the...
