Saudi Arabia: 12 Camels disqualified in beauty contest for receiving Botox injections
When there’s fake news and corruption in camel beauty contests, how can anything be certain again? A camel beauty contest in Saudi Arabia disqualified a dozen camels for receiving Botox injections to make More...
Saudi Health Minister, Adel Faqih, warns against consuming camel meat and milk
On the same day researchers from the Columbia UniversityMailman School of Public Health, King Saud University, and EcoHealth Alliance published their findings of extracting a complete, live, infectious MERS coronavirus More...
Columbia researchers extract live MERS coronavirus from Dromedary camels
NEWS RELEASE April 29, 2014—There is new, more definitive evidence implicating camels in the ongoing outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS. Scientists at the Center for Infection and Immunity More...
Polio-like paralysis, Pithovirus sibericum and other virology topics: An interview with Dr. Vincent Racaniello
On the Saturday, March 8 airing of Outbreak News This Week Radio Show, Vincent Racaniello Ph.D., Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Columbia University appeared to discuss some of the latest topics More...
California Polio-like paralysis, Leishmaniasis are the topics to be covered on the Outbreak News This Week Radio Show
This Saturday, March 8 at 12 pm, two great expert guests will appear on the Tampa Bay-based talk radio program, Outbreak News This Week with host, Robert Herriman to discuss some big issues in infectious diseases. Slated More...
Saudi Arabia reports two more MERS coronavirus cases, virus confirmed in dromedary camels
Saudi Arabian health officials notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of an additional two laboratory-confirmed cases of infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), according to More...
Camels the source of MERS coronavirus? Current evidence is not sufficient according to FAO
New research by National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in Bilthoven, the Netherlands scientists have found antibodies to the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in some Dromedary More...