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Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly closes with concern over new global health threat

(WHO) After seven days of intense discussions, the 66th World Health Assembly (WHA) concluded with agreement on a range of new public health measures and recommendations aimed at securing greater health benefits for all people, everywhere. In all, 24 resolutions and 5 decisions were adopted by the nearly 2000 delegates representing the World Health Organization’s Read More »

May 28, 2013
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, North America, South America, International, Public Health, and Research
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Army Seeks Contract Support for Biosurveillance Centers

(Global Biodefense) The U.S. Army is soliciting proposals for contract support of Avian Influenza/Pandemic Influenza (AI/IP) and Other Emerging Disease Surveillance at the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC) and Department of Defense (DoD) Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (DoD-GEIS) in Silver Spring, MD. Provision of personnel, facilities, materials, management, preparation, and completion Read More »

May 28, 2013
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Biological Weapons, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Kansas to break ground on NBAF project

(CJOnline) After several years of political and fiscal wrangling, Kansas officials are preparing to formally break ground on a new federal biodefense lab in Manhattan. Officials including Gov. Sam Brownback and leaders of Kansas State University will hold a ceremony Tuesday as ground is broken for the lab’s utility plant. It marks the start of Read More »

May 28, 2013
| Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, Biosafety, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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New Tools to Hunt New Viruses

(TheNewYorkTimes) A new flu, H7N9, has killed 36 people since it was first found in China two months ago. A new virus from the SARS family has killed 22 people since it was found on the Arabian Peninsula last summer. In past years, this might have been occasion for panic. Yet chicken and pork sales Read More »

May 28, 2013
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, North America, South Asia, Agents & Toxins, International, Public Health, and Research
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Chapel Hill drug firm Cempra lands bioterror antibiotic contract worth up to $58M

(WRAL) Cempra (Nasdaq: CEMP) has won a contract worth as much as $58 million over five years from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) for development of an antibiotic that could be used by young people and to counter bioterror threats. The company has secured a two-year deal worth $17 million to work Read More »