NEIDL in the News
Emergency Response Exercise To Be Conducted at National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories
For Immediate Release: November 4, 2014 Contact: Tom Testa (617) 353-7628 , ttesta@bu.edu (Boston) – On Thursday November 6th at approximately, 1:00 p.m. Boston University (BU) and the City of Boston will conduct a joint emergency response simulation at the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) at 620 Albany Street. This exercise... More
Panel Debates Lessons from Ebola
Original article from: BU Today posted on November 4, 2014. By Lisa Chedekel It was the bike ride seen ’round the world. When Maine nurse Kaci Hickox hopped on a bike last Thursday, openly defying a quarantine order to stay home after she returned to this country from treating Ebola patients in... More
The Ebola Fight’s HR Problem
Original article from: Marketplace posted on October 27, 2014. By Dan Gorenstein The federal government and the states are still figuring out just what they should do with health workers who return from treating Ebola patients in West Africa. And while that question is part logistics and part politics, there is a... More
A Doctor’s Diary: Encountering Chaos And Kindness In An Ebola Ward
Original article from: NPR posted on October 26, 2014. By Nahid Bhadelia I am an infectious disease (ID) physician at Boston Medical Center, and I serve as the Director of Infection Control at National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory, helping design medical response programs to potential exposures to viruses that cause viral... More
Communication and Computing Technology in Biocontainment Laboratories Using the NEIDL as a Model
Original article from: Pathogens & Disease posted on June 10, 2014. By John McCall & Kath Hardcastle This article provides very interesting examples of some of the new approaches that are being developed for communicating within containment laboratories at the NEIDL. It describes the application of state-of-the-art systems for researchers to... More
The 9 Deadliest Viruses on Earth
Original article from: LiveScience posted on October 23, 2014. By Anne Harding Humans have been battling viruses since before our species had even evolved into its modern form. For some viral diseases, vaccines and antiviral drugs have allowed us to keep infections from spreading widely, and have helped sick people recover. More
Scientists Fight For Superbug Research As U.S. Pauses Funding
Original article from: NPR posted on October 23, 2014. By Nell Greenfieldboyce An unusual government moratorium aimed at controversial research with high-risk viruses has halted important public health research, scientists told an advisory committee to the federal government on Wednesday. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy said Friday that... More
Why Has Nurse Amber Vinson Recovered From Ebola So Quickly?
Original article from: NBC News posted on October 23, 2014. By Maggie Fox Amber Vinson’s blood tested negative for Ebola virus just nine days after she was first diagnosed. Her fellow nurse, Nina Pham, is now in good condition. The two nurses infected when they treated the first person diagnosed with Ebola... More
Reality Check: How People Catch Ebola, And How They Don’t (Elke Muhlberger Interview)
Original article from: WBUR's CommonHealth posted on October 22, 2014. By Carey Goldberg It’s confusing. You hear that Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan was so contagious that two Dallas nurses in protective gear caught the virus. But then you hear, in more recent days, that apparently nobody else did, including the... More
Universities To Speakers Who’ve Visited West Africa: En Garde!
Original article from: NPR posted on October 18, 2014. By Eleanor Klibanoff By now, it's well known that there are a limited number of ways you can contract Ebola: from the blood, sweat, saliva or other bodily fluids of someone who already is ill with the disease. There are many more ways... More
Boston Doctor Training Others to Fight Ebola on Front Lines (Dr. Bhadelia Interview)
Original article from: CBS News posted on October 20, 2014 The death toll from Ebola in West Africa now tops 4,500, and the spread of the deadly virus shows little sign of slowing. But among those fighting the disease is a Boston doctor who cared for Ebola patients in the region, and... More
What A Boston Doctor Learned Treating Ebola Patients In Sierra Leone (Audio)
Original article from: WBUR posted on October 14, 2014. By Bob Oakes Dr. Nahid Bhadelia traveled to Sierra Leone in August, working as a WHO physician treating Ebola patients. She’s an infectious diseases doctor at Boston Medical Center and director of infection control at Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories. She... More
Ebola Outbreak Boosts Odds of Mutation Helping It Spread
Original article from: Bloomberg News posted on October 15, 2014. By Robert Langreth, Michelle Fay Cortez and John Lauerman The diagnosis of Ebola in a second health worker in Texas raises questions about how well researchers understand how the virus spreads and whether the virus is changing in a way that... More
Does Ebola Belong In The South End? Inside The BU Biolab (Audio)
Original article from: WGBH News posted on October 9, 2014. By Anne Mostue The current Ebola outbreak has added urgency to research into the deadly disease — and it’s put a spotlight on Boston University’s controversial biolab in the South End. Activists have called the lab a danger to the neighborhood... More
Preventing the Spread: BU Lab Hopes to Study Dangerous Viruses
Original report from: WFXT-TV (Fox 25 News) posted on October 7, 2014 Watch Full Report on FOX 25 News
How The BU Biolab Could Combat Ebola (Interview w/ Dr. Corley)
Original article from: WGBH Boston posted on October 8, 2014 The Ebola outbreak has added urgency to research into the deadly disease, and it’s put a spotlight on Boston University’s controversial Biolab in the South End. Activists have called the lab a danger to the neighborhood, but after years of delays, More
What We Don’t Know About Ebola (Interview w/ Elke Muhlberger, PhD)
Original article from: WebMD posted on October 3, 2014. By Brenda Goodman When Ebola arrived in the U.S. last week, it came with a steep learning curve. Hospitals that thought they were prepared learned they had gaps in their communication. Public health officials soon learned about the problems of dealing with Ebola-contaminated... More
BU Biolab includes Multiple Layers of Safety
Original article from: Boston Globe posted on October 6, 2014. By Felice J. Freyer You pass through multiple doorways and undergo multiple identity checks, and then enter the room where all your clothes come off. You can keep your eyeglasses, but that’s it. You have crossed the threshold from the outer sections... More
BU Biolab Nears OK Amid Hopes for Tackling Ebola, Safety Concerns
Original article from: Boston Globe posted on October 6, 2014. By Felice J. Freyer As the Ebola outbreak rages in West Africa, a seven-story laboratory designed to study that virus and others like it stands mostly empty in Boston’s South End. But researchers at Boston University, which built the high-security lab with... More
US Probes Potential Second Case of Ebola (Video)
Original article from: Channel NewsAsia posted on October 2, 2014 Texas health authorities on Wednesday (Oct 1) were investigating a potential second US case of Ebola, in a person who was in close contact with a man diagnosed with the virus. Watch Full video featuring Dr. John Connor