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Our daily service publishes articles and aggregates news from the best academic journals and international sources. It critically reviews the latest research, enabling clinicians, scientists, and public-health officials to access up-to-date intelligence on emerging health threats. The ability to comment on news articles is central to the Forum. Past Week Past Month Archive Send us News

Emerging Health Threats Journal is our international, peer-reviewed journal publishing the latest and best research on emerging threats to human health. Its focus is threats from any source, including the environment, chemicals, radiation, pathogens, and society. It welcomes papers on the preparedness and response to natural or man-made disasters, including those that involve the deliberate release of chemical, biological, or radionuclear material. Recently Published Articles About the Journal Aims and Scope Editorial Board Instructions for Authors Submit Here

The Emerging Health Threats Monitor is a weekly newsletter for the international business community. It distils the latest scientific research and health-risk intelligence into a form and language appropriate for a serious but non-scientific audience. Edited news articles from the previous week are included with updates on outbreaks of severe diseases from around the world, including the latest avian influenza situation. Past Month Archive Seek licence to distribute Monitor

An A–Z of Health Threats is being developed as a wiki, encouraging clinicians, scientists, and public-health officials to provide information on emerging hazards to human health. Conferences and Meetings are listed along with Funding and Grants for research into emerging health threats. Links to and descriptions of major organisations, and national and international public health institutions are provided. A–Z of Health Threats Meetings and Conferences Funding and Grants Links Suggest conferences, grants, and links

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Top News Stories

Plague figures cause concern
Experts fear future outbreaks in cities as more cases of the disease are spotted in Africa

US hospitals not ready for emergencies
Evaluation of preparedness programme finds “no clear strategy” for dealing with catastrophic events

Childhood infections may protect against leukaemia
Analysis of 14 studies adds weight to claim that early-life exposure to pathogens could guard kids against blood cancer

Chronic effects of ultrasound unclear
UK experts call for more research into long-term risks citing growing use of ‘souvenir’ pregnancy scans

Discussion Forum

Chemical

BPA

Public Health & Society

Mobile phones and health - precautionary principle

Pathogens

How to halt 'superbugs'

A(H1N1) 'Swine flu'

Breaking News

Papua New Guinea: cholera "going from bad to worse" IRIN

Egypt: controversial organ transplant bill welcomed by WHO IRIN

Canada: tainted cocaine linked to illnesses in Winnipeg CBC News

Lax about nanomaterial handling C&EN

Amantadine’s double bind C&EN

Study links sugary soft drinks to pancreas cancer Reuters

Swine flu still out there, officials caution Reuters

New methods aim to keep E. coli in beef lower all year USA Today

UK: London health officials issue heroin anthrax alert Reuters

Diarrhoea cases rising in Haiti ProMED

Haiti hospital’s fight against TB falls to one man New York Times

Russia: more fall ill after drinking holy water in Siberia ProMED

Fatal anthrax case in Germany caused by same strain as Scottish cases ProMED

Cholera, diarrhoea and dysentry update ProMED

Dominican man dies of meningococcal disease after trip to help in Haiti ProMED

Global Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 cases reach 225 CIDRAP

Myanmar: WHO warns of tolerance to anti-malaria drug IRIN

Africa: making the case against counterfeit drugs IRIN

Cadmium found in adult jewelry CBC News

Emerging Health Threats Journal

In the Name of the Greater Good?
Ken Kirkwood argues that healthcare workers at the front lines of a pandemic have both an obligation to care for patients and a right to preferential access to pharmaceutical interventions

Modeling vaccination campaigns and the Fall/Winter 2009 activity of the new A(H1N1) influenza in the Northern Hemisphere
Vespignani and colleagues model the effectiveness of vaccination campaigns against the novel A(H1N1) influenza virus and show that additional interventions will be required to make vaccination successful

Migrants in a globalized world - health threats, risks and challenges: an evidence-based framework
Brian Gushulak and colleagues propose a shift in global approaches to migrant health, arguing that current approaches overlook the diversity inherent in mobile populations and will fail to address modern public health risks

Conferences and Grants

Conferences

21 Feb 2010

8th ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting

09 Mar 2010

14th International Congress on Infectious Diseases (ICID)

10 Mar 2010

Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health

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