Recent international reports involving a suspected outbreak of the Andes strain of hantavirus have prompted the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to activate a Level 3 emergency response — the agency’s lowest emergency activation level, but one […]
The unseasonably high numbers of pediatric patients admitted for respiratory infections are causing the early bed shortages.
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Vice President Mike Pence considers field hospitals for all 50 states to aid in Coronavirus relief needs at hospitals.
More than 10,000 people have died in West Africa in the largest Ebola outbreak in history. Now experts worry another disease could take its place.
The 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction calls for increased annual contributions toward a global risk management fund.
As the spread of Ebola seems to continue to slow, Liberia’s last Ebola patient was recently released from treatment. Beatrice Yardolo is healthy and cured!
The US measles outbreak expanded to 154 people in 17 states and the District of Columbia. An outbreak in Germany killed a toddler at a Berlin hospital.
A measles outbreak continues to spread in the U.S. BLU-MED offers mobile medical facilities ideally suited for measles treatment and isolation in the field.
Spartanburg Regional Medical Center has a BLU-MED Deployable Field Hospital in case the 2015 flu outbreak leads to emergency room overflow situations.
About 30 percent of people with confirmed cases of MERS CoV have died. Currently, all cases of MERS CoV have been linked to countries on the Arabian Peninsula.
Public health is more than the preparation for extreme conditions. Public health monitors, regulates, and promotes the population’s well being.