LAPD officers being treated for typhoid fever, typhus-like symptoms

First responders (police officers) in Los Angeles have now come down with typhoid fever and another to typhus-like symptoms.  Both diseases can be caused by fleas and ticks that carry the [...]

New Legislation to Improve Access to Innovative Therapies

A bi-partisan effort by Sen. Johnny Isakson and Sen. Bob Casey has produced a continuation of previous legislation in the form of a bill, “Developing an Innovative Strategy for [...]

Ancient genomes found in historically recorded plague pandemic

New findings from a mass burial site in the UK highlight the spread of the first bubonic/pneumonic plague caused by Yersinia pestis.  These remains date back to the Justinian plague that spread [...]