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Sustaining Global Health Security is Critical to Protecting America's National Security

SARS in 2003. Influenza in 2009. Ebola in 2014. Zika in 2015. In the fight against infectious diseases, no nation can stand alone. In today’s interconnected world, a health threat anywhere is a threat everywhere: an outbreak in a remote village can spread to major cities on all six continents in less than 36 hours.

Why Global Health Security Is Essential to U.S. National Security – Press Release

How does CDC fulfill its mission to keep America safe from health threats? The first-ever special supplement to CDC’s Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) journal details progress made in preventing, detecting, and responding to disease threats around the world.

Global measles threat continues to grow as another year passes with millions of children unvaccinated

Following years of declines in measles vaccination coverage, measles cases in 2022 have increased by 18%, and deaths have increased by 43% globally (compared to 2021). This takes the estimated number of measles cases to 9 million and deaths to 136,000 – mostly among children – according to a new report from the World Health … Continue reading Global measles threat continues to grow as another year passes with millions of children unvaccinated

MixRank (YC S11) Is Hiring Global Remote Software Engineers

Programming should be fun. At MixRank, we get to work with distributed systems, databases, data science, and big data. No meetings, no bureaucracy, no office, no time tracking— just challenging technical problems you can devote your full attention to. MixRank processes petabytes of data every month from web crawling. We have hundreds of customers using … Continue reading MixRank (YC S11) Is Hiring Global Remote Software Engineers

Overtime – Episode #427: Tech Addiction, 3rd Parties, Global Leadership

Bill and his guests – Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE), Tristan Harris, Rebecca Traister, Eliot Spitzer, and Jim VandeHei  – answer viewer questions after the show. (Originally aired 6/2/17) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. The post Overtime – Episode #427: Tech Addiction, 3rd Parties, Global Leadership appeared first on Buy It At A Bargain – Deals And … Continue reading Overtime – Episode #427: Tech Addiction, 3rd Parties, Global Leadership

Is the U.S. Export Economy at Risk from Global Infectious Outbreaks? – Press Release

In addition to tragic loss of life, the next global infectious disease outbreak could harm the U.S. export economy and threaten U.S. jobs-even if the disease never reaches our shores.