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• Sick Employees Urged to Stay Home to Avoid Risking Colleagues' Health

  Physicians and public health experts urge employees that experience early symptoms of acute flu to stay home, to avoid putting their colleagues at risk of infection.

• Study: 3 Strains of Antibodies That Kill HIV

  Three strains of antibodies from a certain "elite controller" make it possible to cure HIV by making them give up and die.

• Ex-government employee pleads guilty to hacking scheme

  Former NRC employee pleads guilty to a federal computer crime when he admitted he planned to launch an attack that would expose “top secret” information of the government to other nations.

• Drug manufacturers works with goverment to battle threat of superbugs

  The overwhelming threat of drug-resistance infections causes threat to each and every one of us. This prompted major drug manufacturers to work hand in hand with the government to address this problem.

• Charlie Sheen says paid millions to blackmailers to keep HIV secret

  Charlie Sheen, the wayward star of U.S. television comedy "Two and A Half Men," said on Tuesday he was diagnosed as HIV positive some four years ago and had been extorted for more than $10 million to keep the information quiet.

• Tracing the path of South Korea's MERS 'patient zero'

  Eight days after returning from a trip to the Middle East, a 68-year-old South Korean man developed a cough and fever.

• Hunger and frustration grow at Ebola ground zero in Guinea

  A charred kapok tree and around a dozen graves scattered amongst the mud brick houses of Meliandou are painful reminders of the toll Ebola has taken on this village in southeast Guinea.

• Just five Ebola cases left in Liberia, government says

  Liberia, once the epicenter of West Africa's deadly Ebola epidemic, has just five remaining confirmed cases of the disease, a senior health official said on Friday, highlighting the country's success in halting new infections.

• U.S. needs to rethink Ebola infection controls, says CDC chief

  Medical experts need to rethink how highly infectious diseases are handled in the United States, a U.S. health official said on Monday, after a Dallas nurse contracted Ebola despite wearing protective gear while caring for a dying Liberian patient.

• U.S. defends Ebola response, about 50 under observation

  U.S. officials on Friday broadly defended the response to the country's first case of Ebola, although one acknowledged that while the government was confident of containing the virus, it had been "rocky" in Dallas where the patient is in serious condition.