Kedrab: 1st pediatric trial for Human Rabies Immune Globulin
Rabies post exposure prophylaxis, or PEP, consists of a rabies vaccine series and human rabies immune globulin (HRIG). Kedrion Biopharma's human rabies immune globulin, Kedrab, was FDA approved in 201...
2 Sep 202010min
SARS-CoV-2 is NOT transmitted by mosquitoes: A talk with Dr Stephen Higgs
The World Health Organization (WHO) previously stated "To date there has been no information nor evidence to suggest that the new coronavirus could be transmitted by mosquitoes". Now researchers from ...
27 Jul 202012min
Cancer screening in the time of COVID-19: Prevent Cancer Foundation's 'Back on the Books' campaign
In a recent Op-Ed, Pacific Research Institute President, Sally Pipes asked--Will COVID-19 launch an epidemic of cancer as the pandemic stay-at-home orders have caused patients to put off routine cance...
17 Jul 20208min
Head lice activity is up in the US in the time of the pandemic
Lice Clinics of America (LCA) reported last week that they saw a significant increase in head lice activity through their network of clinics in the US in April and May during the COVID-19 pandemic. J...
13 Jul 202016min
NEWS TALK: Coronavirus Q & A
This episode of NEWS TALK with BRANDON & BOB featured insight from Outbreak News Today's Robert Herriman, discussing COVID-19, good vs. bad coronavirus testing, understanding terms like "viral load," ...
28 Jun 202021min
COVID-19 strikes war torn Yemen
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) reports that the coronavirus has taken a hold upon Yemen saying "Unfortunately, it is no longer anything but obvious that the virus is circulating widely across the whol...
21 Jun 20209min
SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies isolated: Developing a treatment, Aid in vaccine design
Earlier this week, scientists with The Scripps Research Institute announced the discovery of antibodies in the blood of recovered COVID-19 patients that provide powerful protection against SARS-CoV-2 ...
18 Jun 20208min
Dr. Robert Desowitz: Infectious Disease Storyteller
Robert Desowitz, PhD was a scientist, researcher and you may know him best as the author of several very informative and entertaining books like New Guinea Tape Worms and Jewish Grandmothers and Who B...
18 Jun 202016min
