This Watching Brief provides analysis of a recent outbreak anthrax amongst goats in Ukraine. Occurring outside the usual expected geography, this cluster is an illustration challenges facing Ukrainian authorities maintaining disease surveillance during wartime. The context ongoing Russian invasion country should alert local and international donors to importance discerning between bacteriologic...

spring 1944. Work at Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Hanford to design, build, and provide fissionable material for the first atomic bombs was shifting into high gear. In stark contrast, initial bomb project studies on the nuclear chain reaction and plutonium were winding down at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory’s wartime predecessor. Even as others zeroed in on the ...

BACKGROUND Renal replacement therapy has been used by the U.S. Army at the combat support hospital echelon of care since the Korean conflict. Although there has been a general decline in the incidence of wartime acute kidney injury, the mortality associated with acute kidney injury and the use of renal replacement therapy remain unchanged, in the range of 60% to 80%. The U.S. Army official doct...