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We’re Letting Our Bioterrorism Defenses Down
(Forbes) Both Michael Chertoff, former secretary of Homeland Security, and Admiral Mike McConnell, former director of national intelligence, have said that bioterror – not a nuclear weapon – was their greatest fear when they were in office. “In terms of catastrophic attacks, bio was at the top of the list,” said Read More »
- April 5, 2012
- | Filed under North America, Bioterrorism, Countermeasures, and Public Health
US agriculture waking up to agroterrorism threat
(Western Farm Press) A key to stopping agroterrorism lies in heightened awareness among growers and field workers and paying more attention to what could be suspicious activity. Speakers at an “ag crimes and terrorism” summit held at the Kearney Ag Center in Parlier offered several tips for growers and farm workers Read More »
- April 5, 2012
- | Filed under North America, Agriculture, and Bioterrorism
Lassa fever in Nigeria
(World Health Organization) At the beginning of 2012, WHO was notified by the Federal Ministry of Health in Nigeria of an outbreak of Lassa fever. As of March 22, 2012, 623 suspected cases, including 70 deaths have been recorded from 19 of the 36 States since the beginning of the year. Read More »
- April 5, 2012
- | Filed under Africa, Agents & Toxins, and Public Health
North American countries join forces to prepare for pandemics
(HHS News) A new North American Plan for Animal and Pandemic Influenza supports a faster and more coordinated response to influenza pandemics in North America. President Barack Obama, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper released the plan jointly this week during the North American Leaders Summit as Read More »
- April 4, 2012
- | Filed under North America, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
BioWatch Gen-3 behind schedule
(Fierce Homeland Security) Attempts to create an automated aerosolized biological agent detection system are behind schedule, acknowledged Alexander Garza, the head of the Homeland Security Department’s office of health affairs, during a congressional hearing March 29. “There’s going to be slips in the schedule, and there’s nothing that I can do–that Read More »
- April 4, 2012
- | Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Public Health
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BAA – Medical Countermeasures for Priority Pathogens
(Global Biodefense) The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has released Read More »
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New Antibody Weapons Against Marburg Virus
(Global Biodefense) A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute identifies Read More »
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FDA Accepts BLA for Inhalational Anthrax Countermeasure
(Global Biodefense) Anthim (obiltoxaximab) is for the treatment and prevention of inhalational anthrax, Read More »
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South Korea MERS death toll rises to 20
(CNN) The World Health Organization said Tuesday that the number of new cases Read More »
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What you should know about MERS, the mystery disease that has South Korea on edge
(Washington Post) The spread of MERS, which has infected 126 people since the outbreak began last Read More »
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We Now Know More About Sexually Transmitted Ebola
(TIME) In March 2015, officials discovered that a Liberian man who had survived Read More »
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Scientists find new variant of streptococcal bacteria causing severe infections
(Imperial College London) Scientists have discovered a new variant of streptococcal bacteria that Read More »
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VUMC joins Human Vaccine Project as first scientific hub
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), the Human Vaccines Project and the International AIDS Read More »
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Researcher who spiked rabbit blood to fake HIV vaccine results slapped with rare prison sentence
(Washington Post) Dong Pyou Han, a former Iowa State University researcher charged with Read More »
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New Antibody Weapons Against Marburg Virus
(Global Biodefense) A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute identifies Read More »
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How Yelp Can Be Used to Track Outbreaks of Food Poisoning
When a Shigella outbreak at a San Jose, California, seafood restaurant sickened dozens Read More »
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We Now Know More About Sexually Transmitted Ebola
(TIME) In March 2015, officials discovered that a Liberian man who had survived Read More »
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Legionnaires’ Bacteria Regrew in Bronx Cooling Towers That Were Disinfected
(TheNewYorkTimes)- The 15 water-cooling towers that were found to be contaminated this week Read More »
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Millions More Need H.I.V. Treatment, W.H.O. Says
(TheNewYorkTimes)- The World Health Organization issued sweeping new guidelines on Wednesday that could put Read More »
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Sentencing scheduled for peanut executive in salmonella case
(Washington Post)- ALBANY, Ga. — A former peanut executive convicted of shipping tainted Read More »