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Killer cure: why is the US creating new viruses, and stockpiling the vaccines?

(TheVerge) Is the US government prepared to respond to a major biological weapons attack or lethal outbreak of disease in this country? If you look at one effort — a quietly growing national stockpile of vaccines and drug treatments for such horrors as anthrax and avian flu — the answer is yes. But one agency  Read More »

Man Is Arrested in Ricin Scare

(WallStreetJournal) Federal agents arrested a Mississippi man Wednesday for allegedly sending suspicious letters to President Barack Obama and a U.S. senator, bringing a nervous day in the nation’s capital to an end. Paul Kevin Curtis was arrested at his home in Corinth, Miss., the Federal Bureau of Investigation said. Authorities said he sent a similar  Read More »

Treatment for novel coronavirus shows promise in early lab tests

(EurekAlert) National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists studying an emerging coronavirus have found that a combination of two licensed antiviral drugs, ribavirin and interferon-alpha 2b, can stop the virus from replicating in laboratory-grown cells. These results suggest that the drug combination could be used to treat patients infected with the new coronavirus, but more research  Read More »

U.S. Buys More Smallpox Vaccine

(GlobalSecurityNewswire) The U.S. Health and Human Services Department has ordered another 8 million doses of the smallpox vaccine Imvamune from manufacturer Bavarian Nordic, the Danish biotechnology company announced on Tuesday. “With this order, the U.S. government will continue to maintain the stockpile of Imvamune for use in case of a public health emergency. Furthermore, the  Read More »

Ricin Letter Adds To Anxiety on the Hill

(GlobalSecurityNewswire) Amid an already edgy state of alert in Washington following Monday’s bombings at the Boston Marathon, law enforcement officials confirmed on Tuesday that they were also investigating whether an envelope containing the poison ricin was intended to harm Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.). “The U.S. Capitol Police, the FBI and other agencies are involved in  Read More »

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