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Fact Sheet on the Seventh Review Conference of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
“We must come together to prevent, detect, and fight every kind of biological danger – whether it is a pandemic like H1N1, a terrorist threat, or a treatable disease.” – President Obama, United Nations General Assembly, September 22, 2011 Today, the States Parties to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) Read More »
- December 6, 2011
- | Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, International, and Policy & Initiatives
Canberra Vaccine Expert Urges Censorship on Bird Flu Strain Mutant Research
(International Business Times AU) A vaccine expert from Canberra’s National Centre for Biosecurity (NCB) wants the formula used by virologists to mutate the bird flu virus into a strain capable of killing humans to be omitted in the published version of their experiment for security reason. The censorship would prevent others Read More »
- December 6, 2011
- | Filed under Asia/Pacific, Biotechnology, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
Popular science
(Business Standard) The team, composed of second-year art and design students, won the Best Human Practice prize, for postulating rules by which engineers can achieve maximal output with proper social responsibility. The project was titled “Searching for the Ubiquitous Genetically Engineered Machines”. The team asked this question: a century in the Read More »
- December 6, 2011
- | Filed under South Asia, Biosafety, Biotechnology, and Research
Cattle farmers to get a shot in the arm
(Times of India) KOZHIKODE: The Animal Husbandry Department in association with National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) is organizing a vaccination programme in an initiative to help cattle farmers, who have been facing the brunt of foot-and-mouth (FMD) disease in cows. The ‘Goraksha’ project will be launched across the district on December Read More »
- December 6, 2011
- | Filed under South Asia, Agriculture, Countermeasures, and Policy & Initiatives
Living History: Even with proven smallpox vaccines, 19th century Utahns balked
(Salt Lake Tribune) Smallpox arrived in Utah with an emigrant company in 1856. Epidemics of that disease would strike our citizens at least six times during the 19th century, killing thousands. Even with enforcement of vaccination laws, 15,000 Utahns died of smallpox between 1900 and 1925. Its deadly nature, the ease Read More »
- December 6, 2011
- | Filed under North America, Policy & Initiatives, 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 »
Research 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 »
Public Health 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 »