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By Region: North America

Health Experts Narrow the Hunt for Ebola

(Infection Control Today)Response efforts to outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Africa can benefit from a standardized sampling strategy that focuses on the carcasses of gorillas, chimpanzees and other species known to succumb to the virus, according to a consortium of wildlife health experts.

May 18, 2012
| Filed under Africa, North America, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Public Engagement on Facilitating Access to Antiviral Medications and Information in an Influenza Pandemic – Workshop Series Summary

(Institute of Medicine of the National Academies) Influenza pandemics overwhelm health care systems with thousands or hundreds of thousands of sick patients, as well as those worried they may be sick. In order to ensure a successful response to the patient swell caused by a pandemic, robust planning is essential to prepare for challenges public Read More »

May 17, 2012
| Filed under North America, Public Health, and Research
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House Panel Gives Controversial Biodefense Lab a Boost

(Science Now) A U.S. House of Representatives committee today takes up a 2013 spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that would partly reverse deep cuts in the agency’s science and technology programs. It also provides $75 million for a controversial agricultural biodefense laboratory in Kansas that the Obama Administration had zeroed out Read More »

May 17, 2012
| Filed under North America, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Inovio Pharmaceuticals’ Universal Avian Flu Vaccine Generates Protective …

(MarketWatch) Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that its SynCon® avian influenza vaccine generated protective HAI titers against six different unmatched strains of H5N1 in a phase I clinical trial – a distinct clinical achievement on Inovio’s path to develop universal influenza vaccines. By design, Inovio’s SynCon® flu vaccine is not matched to any single virus.

May 17, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Public Health
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Feds Offer $150000 Reward for White Powder Sender

(NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth) The FBI and U.S. postal inspectors are offering a $150,000 reward for information about the person who has mailed at least 380 white powder letters to schools, churches and businesses in North Texas and around the world since 2008. All the type-written letters have been postmarked from North Texas and have Read More »