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Report: Prepositioning Antibiotics for Anthrax

If terrorists released Bacillus anthracis over a large city, hundreds of thousands of people could be at risk of the deadly disease anthrax – caused by the B anthracis spores – unless they had rapid access to antibiotic medical countermeasures (MCM). The spores can be inhaled, be ingested, or come into contact with the skin.  Read More »

What Contagion Missed

(Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) It’s not often that Hollywood ventures into the realm of epidemics and public health, and when it does, the outcome is usually laughably out of touch with reality — like Outbreak, the 1995 movie about a deadly Ebola-like virus that infected a city. To prevent the virus from spreading, the  Read More »

Strides in biodefense follow 2001 anthrax scare

(USA Today) "We are certainly better prepared now, than we were ten years ago," says physician Eric Toner of the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. "But there is still a lot of work to be done." Toner says that a good, …

CBS Studios Anthrax Scare: White Powder Found In An Envelope

(Huffington Post) Figueroa also goes on to say that no one ever associated the "suspicious envelope" with anthrax — but in our defense, that's pretty much where the mind goes when white powder is found in the mailroom. The suspicious white powder was found around 2 pm …

Report: 395 mishaps at US labs risked releasing select agents

(CIDRAP) In response to a CIDRAP News query today, CDC spokesman Von Roebuck said he couldn't give more details but said that the agency plans to publish a report next spring on potential select-agent releases. He said the CDC for security reasons does not …

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