NEIDL in the News
Boston Doctor Is Raising Money to Compensate Unpaid Ebola Workers
Original article from: Boston Magazine posted on June 30, 2015. by Jamie Ducharme When Nahid Bhadelia, an infectious disease doctor at Boston Medical Center, joined the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone last year, she kept hearing the same thing from local healthcare workers: The pay they had been promised had... More
Researchers Frustrated by Failure to Roll Out ‘Game-Changing’ Ebola Test
Original article from: Nature posted on June 26, 2015. by Declan Butler A test kit that diagnoses Ebola rapidly using just a finger prick of blood could save lives in the ongoing epidemic in West Africa. But researchers are perplexed as to why the diagnostic kit has not been deployed in... More
Bedside Ebola Test Accurate
Original article from: MedPage Today posted on June 25, 2015. by Michael Smith A bedside blood test for Ebola detected all of the cases that were positive on a standard assay and most of those that were negative, researchers reported. Importantly, the Corgenix ReEBOV Antigen Rapid Test was faster than a widely... More
Could an Ebola Treatment Already Exist?
Original article from: BU Today posted on June 9, 2015. by Rich Barlow What if Zoloft and Vascor—safe prescription drugs that you can pick up at your CVS for depression and heart trouble, respectively—could treat Ebola? A government study led by a researcher at BU’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) suggests that this... More
BU Scientist Uses Existing Drugs in Fight Against Ebola
Original article from: Boston Globe posted on June 4, 2015. by Karen Weintraub Hoping to develop a drug against Ebola, but lacking the $1 billion to bring a new medicine to market, Boston University infectious disease researcher Gene Olinger turned to a more affordable source of drugs — those already available... More
Frontline Health Workers were Sidelined in $3.3bn Fight Against Ebola
Original article from: Newsweek posted on May 19, 2015. by Amy Maxmen Under cover of darkness, a few burial workers pried open the steel doors of a hospital morgue and stole the corpses of two adults and one child. They carried the bodies confidently, with hands that carted cadavers daily. They... More
Dr. Nahid Bhadelia: On the Frontline to Fight Ebola in Sierra Leone
Original article from: India New England posted on May 19, 2015 BOSTON-- Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, MD, is an infectious diseases physician, assistant professor at the Boston University School of Medicine and the Director of Infection Control and Medical Response at National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory at Boston University. But she is... More
Study Points to Years-Long Immune System Woes from Measles
Original article from: Los Angeles Times posted on May 7, 2015. By Eryn Brown Scientists have known for decades that having measles suppresses kids' immune systems for several weeks or months, leaving them ill-equipped to fight off pneumonia, bronchitis, diarrheal diseases and other infections. Now a team of researchers has suggested that... More
Biophotonics Poised to make Major Breakthroughs in Medicine (Video)
Original article from: Science360 News posted on March 9, 2015 Imagine having the ability to manipulate light waves in order to see through a skull right into the brain, or being able to use lasers to diagnose a bacterial infection in a matter of minutes. At the Center for Biophotonic Sensors... More
Inside a Biosafety Level 4 Lab
Original article from: Aljazeera America posted on February 23, 2015. By Lindsay Moran As someone with a background in intelligence, I’m accustomed to helping people understand the gravest national security threats our nation faces. But I’ll admit to being as confused as anyone during the latest outbreak of the Ebola virus, More
Diagnosing Disease before Symptoms Strike
Original article from: Bostonia posted in Fall 2014 Issue In October 2014, nurse Kaci Hickox returned to her home in Maine after treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone with the group Doctors Without Borders. State officials ordered her to stay in her house for 21 days—the longest possible incubation period for... More
$1 Million Mass. Grant Bolsters Hunt for Ebola Test
Original article from: Boston Globe posted on December 16, 2014. By Michael Levenson A Cambridge nonprofit, one of several groups worldwide racing to develop a rapid test for the Ebola virus, received a boost Tuesday when state officials gave the organization $1 million to help bring its finger-prick device to market. Marcus... More
Rhett Talks w/ Paul Duprex – Bringing Viruses in from the Cold and Heating them Up!
November 20, 2014 Filmed on November 20, 2014. Lecture by Paul Duprex, the Associate Professor of Microbiology, Director of Cell and Tissue Imaging, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Institute (NEIDL), Boston University School of Medicine. I am fascinated by viruses! As nature’s nanomachines, they are incredibly diverse and come in more “flavors” than... More
Emergency Response Exercise to be Conducted at National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories
For Immediate Release: December 9, 2014 Contact: Tom Testa (617) 353-7628 , ttesta@bu.edu (Boston) – On Thursday December 11, 2014 at approximately 10:00 a.m. Boston University (BU) and the City of Boston will conduct a joint full scale emergency response simulation at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) at 620 Albany... More
A Boston Doctor vs. Ebola (Q&A with Dr. Nahid Bhadelia)
Original article from: Boston Magazine posted in December 2014 Issue. By Melissa Malamut What Nahid Bhadelia remembers most from her trip to treat Ebola patients in Sierra Leone—12 days of working with desperately ill people in a country where the disease has killed thousands—is not being able to touch her patients. “There... More
Going Public with Ebola; NEIDL Director says Scientists Need to Engage with the Public about the Disease
Original article from: BU Today posted on November 20, 2014. By Sara Rimer Speaking at a public forum on Ebola at Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) on November 7, 2014, NEIDL director Ronald B. Corley stressed the importance of scientists engaging with the public about the realities of... More
Dr. Paul Duprex Presents at The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity
Original Video from: National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) October 22, 2014 The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) is a federal advisory committee that addresses issues related to biosecurity and dual use research of concern (DURC) at the request of the United States Government. The NSABB has up to... More
Expert Panel Discussion: The Truth about Ebola (Video)
November 7, 2014 Expert panelists Dr. Ronald B. Corley, Director of Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, Director of Infection Control at the NEIDL, Dr. Paul Biddinger, Director of Operations for Emergency Medicine and Medical Director for Emergency Preparedness at Massachusetts General Hospital, and Dr. Jamie... More
Boston Doctor Returns to Sierra Leone to Fight Ebola (Video)
Original article from: NBC Nightly News posted on November 12, 2014 Boston-based physician Dr. Nahid Bhadelia travels to Sierra Leone for the second time in four months to combat the deadly Ebola outbreak. See Full Video on NBC News
Ebola and Enterovirus, Both Spreading too Close to Home (Video)
Original article from: Fox 25 News posted on November 5, 2014 Two viruses: one from the jungles of Africa that has infected more than 10,000 people, half of them dead and another from right here in the US infecting more than 800 and linked to the deaths of four children this... More