News & Events   News & Events                         CII, South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases and US-CDC identify and sequence deadly LuJo virus CII Director Ian Lipkin, keynote speaker at the Guardian Activate Summit, blogs about the importance of the Internet in fighting infectious disease CII Director Ian Lipkin speaks with Brian Lehrer on Swine Flu CII Director Ian Lipkin speaks with Boyd Matson on National Geographic Radio Microbe Hunting on the Pop!Tech Blog CII collaborates with South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) and US CDC to identify and sequence a deadly, never-seen-before virus NIH Research in Action features CII Director Ian Lipkin as Microbe Hunter to the World Google.org announces $2.5 million Predict and Prevent grant to CII to initiate Global Pathome Initiative EMBO highlights CII's efforts to prevent pandemics CII, American Academy of Pediatrics, Harvard University, Trinity College Dublin and the CDC report first study that firmly demonstrates lack of association between MMR Vaccine And Autism. NIAID Newsletter Features Center Director W. Ian Lipkin, MD CII investigators and collaborators implicate a novel rhinovirus genotype as a global cause of respiratory disease CII and collaborators at the University of CO confirm the utility of MassTag-PCR in differential diagnosis of respiratory disease CII and collaborators at USDA and Penn State determine distinct clusters of Israel acute paralysis virus are circulating in the United States CII and collaborators describe establishment and implementation of a MassTag PCR panel for surveillance of microbes implicated in tick-vectored infectious diseases CII investigators demonstrate association between novel Bornaviruses with proventricular dilatation disease in psittacine birds