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By Region: North America

6 cities to train mail carriers to dispense anti-terror drugs

The Postal Service is ready to deliver lifesaving drugs to a quarter of the residents of Minneapolis-St. Paul after a bioterror attack.

August 2, 2010
| Filed under North America and Countermeasures
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Speeding Up Diagnosis of Infectious Disease

Current methods of diagnosing an infectious disease can take days to weeks. Now a Cambridge, MA-based startup called Pathogenica is developing a way to do it within a day–by reading the DNA sequence of pathogens. Pathogenica is developing diagnostic tests designed to detect harmful microorganisms by zeroing in on the genes responsible for their harmful Read More »

July 28, 2010
| Filed under North America, Public Health, and Research
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Galveston National Lab Ready To Begin Research

In the next few weeks, researchers will move in and begin their work in the Galveston National Laboratory.

July 25, 2010
| Filed under North America and Research
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CDC Changes Anthrax Vaccine Recommendations

These recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) update the previous recommendations for anthrax vaccine adsorbed (AVA) Use of anthrax vaccine in the United States: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices [ACIP].

July 23, 2010
| Filed under North America and Public Health
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HHS Seeks Comments on Bioterror Select Agents List

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published a notice Wednesday seeking comments by Aug. 20 about its current list of select agents and toxins. The Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 required creation of the list and a biennial review of it thereafter; the list consists of toxins Read More »