Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Waisman Center are working to develop an experimental vaccine for the deadly Ebola virus, and announced in February 2018 that they'll begin phase 1 human clinical trials in Japan by the end of the year.
Reid Magney of the Wisconsin Elections Commission discusses a media report indicating the states's voting infrastructure was hacked during the 2016 election, saying the sourcing may be old and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has not revealed security breach.
In December 2018, an experimental vaccine for the Ebola virus, produced in Wisconsin, will head to Japan for human trials. UW-Madison pathologist Alhaji Njai explains this research and hopes for the potential of this vaccine.
Wisconsin is in the midst the worst flu season in years, and public health officials are working to stop the spread of the disease. Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene communicable disease division director Peter Shult discusses efforts to track the virus.
As Wisconsinites push through a hard flu season, public-health officials are following a distinct mix of influenza strains and worrying about the effectiveness of this year's vaccines, but they're also thinking a lot about an intricate disease-tracking network that's been built up over time.
Dr. Bennet Omalu likens the American obsession with football to a religion. In that regard, he might be considered a heretic: Omalu has equated allowing children to play football to child abuse and warns that the NFL is doomed unless it starts reducing harmful blows to the head.
