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By Region: North America

Author Interview: Jeanne Guillemin, Author Of American Anthrax

(Prague Post) Her latest book, American Anthrax, documents several cases in which letters with anthrax spores were mailed to members of the media and several US Senators, beginning Sept. 18, 2001. Five people were killed in the attacks and 17 were infected.

US disease agency in fiscal peril

(Nature.com) Core funding is also used to maintain the Strategic National Stockpile, a repository of drugs reserved for fighting epidemics and bioterrorism. If Obama’s plan is enacted, the CDC’s congressionally controlled funding will have fallen by roughly 20% …

Plans stall for biodefence lab

(Nature.com) Livestock in the heart of US cattle country will be put at risk if foot-and-mouth disease escapes from the proposed National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility. For Katharine Bossart, a trip to the lab can involve a 22-hour flight.

NIH-supported scientists investigate a newly emerging staph strain

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) Using genome sequencing and household surveillance, National Institutes of Health scientists and their colleagues from Columbia University Medical Center and St. George’s University of London have pieced together how a newly emerging type of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria has adapted to transmit more easily among humans. Their new study  Read More »

‘Universal’ vaccines could finally allow for wide-scale flu prevention

(ScienceDaily) Scientists have found that an emerging class of long-lasting flu vaccines called “universal” vaccines could for the first time allow for the effective, wide-scale prevention of flu by limiting the virus’ ability to spread and mutate. A computational model showed that the vaccines could achieve unprecedented control of the flu virus both seasonally and  Read More »

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