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By Region: North America

Firm Receives $50 Million for Further Anthrax Antitoxin Trials

(Global Security Newswire) Elusys Therapeutics indicated it would receive $50 million in additional support from the U.S. Health and Human Services Department for late-stage preparation of a treatment intended to prevent and counteract inhalation anthrax infections, United Press International reported on Friday. The New Jersey biopharmaceutical firm to date had received $143 million under a half-decade contract  Read More »

DARPA Awards $3.8 Million Contract to CytoSorbents Corporation

(Market Watch) CytoSorbents Corporation, a pioneer in the use of blood purification to treat life-threatening illnesses such as sepsis, trauma, burn injury, lung injury and pancreatitis, announced that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has awarded the Company a technology development contract worth up to $3.8 million as part of its Dialysis-Like Therapeutics (DLT)  Read More »

Experts call for precautionary steps as dengue returns

(The International News) Although no death has been reported so far due to the dengue hemorrhagic fever this year in Karachi, the number of patients reached 136 on Saturday when two more patients tested positive for the mosquito-borne illness. Four patients had tested positive for the dengue fever on Friday. Interestingly, all the 136 dengue-positive  Read More »

Ebola a potential bio-terror weapon

(The Observer) The dramatic nature of the Ebola outbreak in Kibaale district raises concerns about the cryptic intersection between global security and public health disasters. This is so because Ebola could very well pose an unprecedented frontier of bioterrorism, because it is complicated, with nonspecific symptoms making its generic diagnosis difficult, or even sometimes impossible.  Read More »

US to resume beef imports from Japan after two-year ban

(CattleNetwork) The United States will restart importing beef from Japan this month, ending a two-year suspension imposed after foot-and-mouth disease was found in Japanese cows, the farm ministry in Tokyo said. Imports into the U.S., which were halted in April 2010 after the discovery of Japanese cows infected with the virus, will resume on August  Read More »

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