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By Region: North America

Agricultural intensification, priming for persistence and the emergence of Nipah virus: a lethal bat-borne zoonosis

INTERFACE Journal by The Royal Society — Emerging zoonoses threaten global health, yet the processes by which they emerge are complex and poorly understood. Nipah virus (NiV) is an important threat owing to its broad host and geographical range, high case fatality, potential for human-to-human transmission and lack of effective prevention or therapies. Here, we Read More »

June 3, 2011
| Filed under Europe, North America, Agriculture, and Research
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Emergent BioSolutions on Track to Complete Delivery of 14.5M Doses of BioThrax to the US Government Ahead of Schedule

BUSINESS WIRE (ROCKVILLE) — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced today that eight lots of BioThrax(R) (Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed) have received regulatory release for delivery to the U.S. government under the company’s contract (200-2009-30162) originally written to supply 14.5 million doses of BioThrax to the Strategic National Stockpile. This marks the largest single-week regulatory release of product Read More »

June 2, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biotechnology, and Countermeasures
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New Global Bio Lab under way

DAILY BRUIN (UCLA) — With the re-emergence of diseases like malaria and tuberculosis in the United States, the threat of disease outbreaks remains an ever-present concern. Hoping to improve responses to such epidemics, UCLA has introduced a new Global Bio Lab, which is currently under construction on campus. The lab is currently preparing to analyze Read More »

June 2, 2011
| Filed under North America and Research
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Army Awards PPD Contract to Support Biodefense, Vaccine Development Programs

GOVCONWIRE — The U.S. Army has awarded PPD, Inc. (NASDAQ: PPDI) the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity: Regulatory Affairs & Compliance Support contract to provide global regulatory and biostatistical services for several Army clinical development programs. It is a multiyear, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract with a ceiling value of $45.5 million over a Read More »

June 2, 2011
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Policy & Initiatives
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Industry, Academia Race to Create Drugs Against Biological Warfare

NATIONAL DEFENSE MAGAZINE — Experts tend to arrange biological threats in tiers. And anthrax may very well have an entire shelf to itself. After all, it was a series of deadly letters containing anthrax sent through the mail just weeks after 9/11 that spawned the biodefense industry as it exists today. On the heels of Read More »