NEIDL in the News
Containing Ebola with Nanotechnology; BU Team’s Device Detects Virus Quickly and on site
Original article from: BU Today posted on September 30, 2014. by Mark Dwortzan By late January, 1.4 million people in Liberia and Sierra Leone could be infected with the Ebola virus. That’s the worst-case scenario of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa recently offered by scientists at the US Centers for... More
Transmission of Ebola: Two Microbiologists Weigh In (Letter to Editor)
Original article from: The New York Times posted on September 26, 2014. by John H. Connor & Elke Muhlberger To the Editor: Michael T. Osterholm, in “What We’re Afraid to Say About Ebola” (Op-Ed, Sept. 12), suggests that we must entertain the possibility that the Ebola virus might become transmissible through the... More
MED’s Corley Appointed NEIDL Director; Takes Charge at Critical Moment in Research into Infectious Diseases
Original article from: BU Today posted on September 22, 2014. by Barbara Moran Ronald Corley, whose five years as associate director of BU’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) saw the lab overcome several legal and political challenges, has been appointed NEIDL director, effective October 1. Corley will continue as a... More
Paul Leading the Fight Against Killer Viruses
Original article from: Lurgan Mail; Posted on August 26, 2014 Paul Duprex is making waves across the pond as a virus-taming scientist, having started his journey in King’s Park Primary School. The Lurgan native is currently an associate professor at Boston University, USA, where he is conducting research on viruses, following a... More
Ebolanomics
Original article from: The New Yorker; August 25, 2014 Issue. by James Surowiecki The deadly hemorrhagic fever Ebola was first discovered in 1976, and it has haunted the public imagination for twenty years, ever since the publication of Richard Preston’s “The Hot Zone.” Yet, in all that time, no drug has... More
Drug Found Effective Against Virus Similar to Ebola
Original article from: USA Today posted on August 20, 2014. by Karen Weintraub A study out today shows that an experimental treatment for Marburg virus – a close cousin to Ebola – can be given after symptoms of the terrible disease have started to appear. The finding suggests that similar treatments may... More
U.S. Doctor To Travel To Sierra Leone To Help Ebola Victims (Audio)
Original article from: NPR posted on August 20, 2014 Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, an infectious diseases expert at Boston University, is going to Sierra Leone to help care for Ebola patients. She talks to Kelly McEvers about the challenges she expects to face. Listen to Dr. Bhadelia on NPR
Disease Control Suffers Lack of Fast Detection Tool
Original article from: Punch posted on August 19, 2014. By Folashade Adebayo with Agency Reports In detecting the first case of Ebola in Nigeria, the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, played a prompt and face-saving role. The LUTH’s preliminary result, though subjected to confirmatory tests, helped in the swift isolation of the... More
Researchers Race to Develop Field Tests to Confirm Ebola
Original article from: Bloomberg posted on August 15, 2014. By Marie French It took three days recently for a New York City hospital to determine that a patient with Ebola-like symptoms didn’t have the deadly virus. Now, as the disease rages in West Africa, researchers are closing in on the development of... More
Ebola Control Suffers from Lack of Fast Detection Tool
Original article from: USA Today posted on August 15, 2014. By Karen Weintraub Early in August, when doctors worried that a patient at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York had Ebola, it took nearly three days to confirm that he didn't. And that was in one of the richest, most medically... More
Battling Ebola (Special Report)
Original article from: Bostonia As the worst Ebola outbreak on record continued to infect new patients and claim additional lives in West Africa, BU Today launched a weeklong Special Report in which BU researchers discussed why medical personnel risk traveling to the hot zone; how the virus kills; the ethical and... More
American Doctors Volunteer to Fight Ebola as More Health Workers Die
Original article from: BreitBart posted on August 9, 2014. By Mary Chastain Out of the almost 1,000 Ebola victims, some of the most vulnerable are the medical workers on the front line. They know the risks, yet sacrifice their lives to help others. Despite the outbreak, more Americans are lining up... More
Ebola; Battling a deadly disease
Original article from: Homeland Security News Wire posted on August 11, 2014 A smoldering debate about whether researchers should ever deliberately create superflu strains and other risky germs in the interest of science has flared once again. Proponents of the work say that in order to protect the public from the next... More
Biologists Choose Sides In Safety Debate Over Lab-Made Pathogens (Audio)
Original article from: NPR posted on August 13, 2014. By Neil GreenfieldBoyce A smoldering debate about whether researchers should ever deliberately create superflu strains and other risky germs in the interest of science has flared once again. Proponents of the work say that in order to protect the public from the next... More
Doctor’s Work with Ebola may Benefit Boston
Original article from: Boston Globe posted on August 13, 2014. By Felice J. Freyer First, she pulls on the surgical gloves. Then, Dr. Nahid Bhadelia climbs into a Tyvek suit resembling baggy white coveralls. Over that, she dons rubber boots, an apron, a gown, and another pair of gloves. Then, she... More
POV: Battling Ebola. It’s Our Problem, Too
Original article from: BU Today posted on August 8, 2014. By Paul Duprex I can’t hear the three words “point of view” without instantly thinking of my dad! “Here’s my point…” is probably one of his favorite phrases, and I guess he’s not alone. Doesn’t everyone have some point or other... More
20 Things to Know about the Ebola Outbreak
Original article from: Becker's Hospital Review posted on August 7, 2014. By Lindsey Dunn Ebola overview 1. Ebola, as it is commonly refereed to, is short for Ebola virus disease, a form of haemorrhagic fever, that causes severe illness and is often fatal. 2. Symptoms include fever, extreme weakness, muscle pain and sore... More
Battling Ebola: Working with a Deadly Virus; BU Researcher Views the Virus with Respect, Not Fear
Original article from: BU Today posted on August 7, 2014. By Sara Rimer Elke Mühlberger, associate professor of microbiology at the School of Medicine, is one of a small group of microbiologists around the world who are trained to work with Ebola and similarly deadly viruses in Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4)... More
Battling Ebola: NEIDL’s Role
Original article from: BU Today posted on August 7, 2014. By Art Jahnke As the worst Ebola outbreak on record continues to spread disease and death through several West African countries, public interest in infectious disease research is spiking. BU Today spoke about research conducted at BU’s National Emerging Infectious Disease... More
Quest for an Ebola Cure Intensifies as Doctors Struggle to Treat Patients
Original article from: Wired posted on August 7, 2014. By Carolyn Crist John Connor would really like to cure Ebola. He’s a microbiologist at Boston University, working in an interdisciplinary unit with BU computer scientists and engineers, Boston-area biotech companies, and researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston... More