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Hawaii gets $5.3M for emergency preparedness
(Bizjournals.com) Among the measures covered by the state's public health emergency preparedness planning and training are food safety defense, rapid detection, identification and response to toxins, bioterrorism preparedness and effective public notification and …
- September 28, 2011
- | Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
Albany Med professor awarded $3.1M for bioterrorism research
(Bizjournals.com) Over the next five and a half years, Dr. Karsten Hazlett, assistant professor in the Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease at Albany Med, will study the biological differences between naturally occurring and lab-grown Francisella tularensis, …
- September 28, 2011
- | Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Bioterrorism, and Research
New Report Reviews Risk Assessment Plans for Proposed Fort Detrick Facility
(National Academies) A new report from the National Research Council says that an Army contractor’s strategy for conducting a site-specific risk assessment (SSRA) for the proposed Medical Countermeasures Test and Evaluation Facility at Fort Detrick, Md., is not sufficiently robust to help the Army design a facility that will reduce potential Read More »
- September 28, 2011
- | Filed under North America, Biosafety, Countermeasures, and Research
Goats, sheep get second dose of FMD vaccine
(Mmegi Online) Small stock in some parts of the country will receive a second dose of Purified Vaccine to be protected against Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), the department of veterinary services has revealed. FMD public relations officer, Geoffrey Pheko told Mmegi …
- September 28, 2011
- | Filed under Africa, Agents & Toxins, and Agriculture
U.S. Restructures $1.5B Biodefense Research Effort
The U.S. Defense Department is significantly restructuring a 5-year-old, $1.5 billion program amid charges it is failing in its mission to develop countermeasures employable against large classes of potential biological warfare agents, Nature reported last week (see GSN, Jan. 18). The Defense Threat Reduction Agency is incorporating elements of the Transformational Read More »
- September 28, 2011
- | Filed under North America, Countermeasures, 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 »