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Researchers Find “Key” Used by Ebola Virus to Unlock Cells and Spread Deadly Infection

(PR Newswire) BRONX, N.Y.– Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have helped identify a cellular protein that is critical for infection by the deadly Ebola virus. The findings, published in today’s online edition of Nature, suggest a possible strategy for blocking infection due to Ebola virus, one of the world’s most Read More »

August 25, 2011
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, and Research
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Preparing for Epidemics, Philips Teams with Methodist Scientists to Build …

(VAdvert Press Center) “After 9/11 and the SARS outbreak in southeast Asia, the NIH wanted to build a BSL-4 imaging suite for studying infectious agents, both natural and bioterrorism-related,” Li said. “I was at the NIH at the time, and helped design the imaging equipment …

August 22, 2011
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Public Health, and Research
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First Responders Able To Visualize Post-Event Disaster Environments Using New Software Tool

Using iPad™ mobile devices, emergency preparedness officials and first responders participating last month in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Level Exercise 2011 (NLE-11) were able, for the first time, to make use of a new, science-based software tool that allows them to view and modify accurate models of building damage and other post-event disaster Read More »

August 19, 2011
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Public Health
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Biodetection Cannot Rely Only on Technology, Experts Say

Biodefense experts are highlighting the importance of person-to-person awareness and cooperation in identifying the potential terrorist release of a biological agent, National Defense Magazine reported in its September issue (see GSN, Aug. 1). Public health professionals at a recent forum in Washington said existing surveillance technology, such as the federal government’s Biowatch program that deploys Read More »

August 18, 2011
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Public Health
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Funding Renewed for Pathogen Dispersal Modeling

The United States has extended by five years funding of an effort to develop computer simulations for the dispersal of disease agents released deliberately or by natural means, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University said on Tuesday (see GSN, March 1). The effort, dubbed “Synthetic Information Systems for Better Informing Public Health Policy-makers,” started Read More »