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By Region: North America

IDRI and Medicago to Present Data on H5N1 Vaccine at the World Vaccine

(InfectionControlToday) The Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI), a Seattle-based non-profit research organization that is a leading developer of adjuvants used in vaccines combating infectious disease, and Medicago Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing highly effective and competitive vaccines based on proprietary manufacturing technologies and virus-like particles (VLPs), announce that they will be presenting positive Read More »

April 10, 2013
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Research
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H7N9 Bird Flu Outbreak in China Gets Attention in the States

(FoodSafetyNews) There have been a few signs this week that state health departments are beginning to prepare for the still unlikely event of China’s expanding outbreak of H7N9 bird flu reaching the United States. The Maine Public Health Alert Network System was used Tuesday to get the word out to local health officials, labs, emergency Read More »

April 10, 2013
| Filed under North America and Public Health
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Local scientists developing tests for vaccines against bioterror threats

(OrlandoSentinel) In their cold, sterile labs near Orlando, some local scientists are creating a hot commodity — biological replicas of the human immune system — that could play a role in saving the planet from a pandemic. That’s one of the goals, at least, of the work at Sanofi Pasteur VaxDesign Corp., the Central Florida Read More »

April 9, 2013
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Research
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Biodetection Technologies for First Responders

(GlobalBiodefense) The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have recently released a report summarizing an extensive list of commercially available, hand-portable detection technologies for biological threats. The report helps first responders such as firefighters, HazMat workers and police officers make informed decisions about procuring the right Read More »

April 8, 2013
| Filed under North America, Biotechnology, and Public Health
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Revealing the weapons by which bacteria fight each other

(EurekAlert) A new study which was performed jointly at Umeå University and the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, discovered that bacteria can degrade the cell membrane of bacterial competitors with enzymes that do not harm their own membrane. This exciting finding opens the way for the development of new antibacterial drugs to fight bacteria Read More »