Public Health
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Stripe, Anthropic, OpenAI Launch $500M Fund to Fight Respiratory Infections
Stripe, Anthropic, and OpenAI lead a coalition of backers, including Flu Lab, the OpenAI Foundation, Bill Gates, and Jane Street Capital traders, in Intercept: a new $500 million fund aiming to elimin
Flesh-eating screwworms detected in Texas calf
In La Pryor, Texas, a three-week-old calf was found with larvae in its umbilical area, confirming the first US case of flesh-eating New World screwworm since 1966.
OpenAI Backs Laws to Screen DNA Sales for Bioweapons
In 2017, Canadian researchers reconstituted the extinct horsepox virus using mail-order DNA, a chilling precedent that now fuels top AI executives' urgent plea to Congress.
Ebola outbreak control challenges mount with Bundibugyo species spread
The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda silently spread for weeks before a nurse, the first known case, developed symptoms on April 24, according to BBC .
Chickenpox parties pose lifelong health risks, WIRED reports
Around three in every 1,000 children infected with chickenpox experience severe complications such as pneumonia, serious bacterial skin infections, encephalitis, or meningitis, according to WIRED .