Six more children died from flu this past week, bringing the season's pediatric death total to 40. In addition to the very young, the elderly are most at risk from complications of this year's flu.

Bioterrorists could one day kill hundreds of millions of people in an attack more deadly than nuclear war, Bill Gates will warn world leaders.  Rapid advances in genetic engineering have opened the door for small terrorism groups to tailor and easily turn biological viruses into weapons.

It has always been my personal belief that sometimes it’s the things that we can’t see that can hurt us the most. Of these “invisible threats”, perhaps none is more potentially dangerous to our personnel as the illness and death caused by infectious disease. Even without the threat of Ebola, MERS or other exotic diseases, firefighters face a substantially increased risk of contracting a debilitating or even life-threatening disease such as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Multiple scientific studies have documented that MRSA can be found in 50% of ambulances. Other studies have documented....

Winter Park, FL - A few short years ago, the Ebola crisis killed more than 11,000 people worldwide and brought to everyone's attention the real threat that high consequence infectious diseases pose to the security of the nation.

The State of Florida is preparing for the next possible outbreak by training local EMTs and paramedics to move patients with contagious diseases safely between facilities. 

Dr. Wendy Goodson, biological scientist with the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, discusses her team’s breakthrough – the Joint Biological Agent Decontamination System (JBADS) – which effectively “cooks” an aircraft