Welcome to the UCSF Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center (VDDC) and Chiu Laboratory at UCSF China Basin! The UCSF VDDC is a core facility for viral diagnostics arising from a multi-year collaborative agreement between UCSF and Abbott Laboratories.



KTVU Special Report
Local researchers on alert to find dangerous mutated viruses










KGO ABC News
UCSF lab tracks viral outbreaks around the world (November 13th, 2012)








KGO ABC News
Docs concerned about new germs during flu season (October 19th, 2012)








New Hemorrhagic Fever Virus
New virus in Africa looks like rabies, acts like Ebola

















KRON4 News (Part I, September 22nd, 2012)

KRON4 News (Part II, September 22nd, 2012)
West Nile Discovery -- Virus is in San Francisco








San Jose Mercury News
Scientists hunt cause of hantavirus outbreak at Yosemite (September 23rd, 2012)








Fox News
Yosemite officials staying on top of hantavirus (September 19th, 2012)







CNN Erin Burnett Outfront
Yosemite warns of deadly virus linked to rodents (September 11th, 2012)








Study Confirms Erroneous Link Between Prostate Cancer and Retrovirus from Mice
Researchers trace back contamination of XMRV in cancer tissue sample (September 18th, 2012)

The Final Chapter on XMRV and Prostate Cancer
...this study in PLOS ONE by Lee and colleagues is significant because it has allowed the authors who originally reported the association of XMRV with prostate cancer to set the record straight... (September 18th, 2012)

Case Closed
On the heels of study results that de-linked CFS and XMRV comes a report from an equally robust group of researchers that severs the link between XMRV and prostate cancer (September 18th, 2012)

Hantavirus: Be Careful, Not Fearful
UCSF infectious diseases expert explains the rare virus and offers tips for camper safety (August 29th, 2012)








CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation): Hantavirus concerns
Dr. Charles Chiu, an infectious disease expert at the University of California, San Francisco, talks about the hantavirus outbreak at Yosemite National Park (September 1st, 2012)

KTVU: Number of Notifications Increases
Number of Yosemite notifications connected to Hantavirus increases (August 31st, 2012)









KRON4: Hantavirus in Yosemite National Park
Don't Use a Broom to Sweep up Hantavirus Contaminated Dust (August 17th, 2012)









Virus Mutation: California Academy of Sciences
Scientists are working hard to keep up on how viruses mutate especially with the recent outbreak of the H1N1 influenza virus.








KABC San Francisco
Ending moratorium on genetically engineered H5N1 bird flu

Cell
Virus Hunters: Catching Bugs in the Field

InsideScience.Org
To stop epidemics, acting locally more important than globally

Nature.Com
Respiratory virus jumps from monkeys to humans

A novel virus that spread through a California New World titi monkey colony in late 2009 has been shown to have also infected a human researcher and a household family member, in a verified example of an adenovirus “jumping” from one species to another and remaining contagious after the jump.  Researchers at the UCSF Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center, led by Dr. Charles Chiu,  confirmed that the virus was the same in the New World monkeys and humans, and that the virus is highly unusual in both populations.  Their findings appear July 14th in the Open Access journal PLoS Pathogens.

Adenoviruses are known to cause a wide range of clinical illnesses in humans, from cold-like symptoms to diarrhea and pneumonia. Unlike influenza or coronaviruses, adenoviruses had previously not been known to spread from one species to another. “Now adenoviruses can be added to the list of pathogens that have the ability to cross species,” said Charles Chiu, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of medicine at UCSF and director of the viral diagnostics center. Read more...



 
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