Recent News

By Category: Agents & Toxins

NIAID Issues Contract For Advanced Work on Smallpox-Marburg Virus Vaccine

(Global Security Newswire) The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has issued a contract to a Danish biotechnology firm to finance advanced research of experimental vaccines that could be used against both the Marburg and smallpox viruses. “This new contract will support the advanced development of candidate vaccine components and technologies that accelerate  Read More »

David Hoffman: Why did they do it?

(Foreign Policy) Looking back, one of the most unsettling phenomenon of the Cold War was the extent to which the superpowers, locked in existential confrontation, failed to see each other clearly. From the bomber and missile “gaps” of the 1950s to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, the so-called “window of vulnerability” of the late  Read More »

Report: Congo fever kills 14 in Iran over 2 years

(Trend.az) Azerbaijan, Baku – During the past two years, 14 people have died in Iran as a result of sporadic cases of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), Jam-e Jam Persian language daily reported. The importation of livestock to Iran from eastern borders has been the cause of the spread of the disease, which has contacted 114  Read More »

Drug Helps Beat Ebola Infection if Given Within 48 Hours, Report Says

(Global Security Newswire) An experimental Ebola countermeasure is said to be effective if used within two days of exposure to the virus, a significant step over prior drugs requiring administration within 30 minutes, the Ottawa Citizen reported on Thursday. The medicine functions by hindering Ebola's progression, providing the body a longer period to neutralize the  Read More »

Pentagon Readies Plans for Securing Syrian Chem, Bio Sites

(Global Security Newswire) The U.S. armed forces have blueprinted how service members would carry out a number of potential missions related to Syria, including a possible instruction to secure sensitive chemical and biological installations in the internally embattled Middle Eastern nation, government sources said in a Thursday report by CNN. Insiders said a Defense Department  Read More »

« First...102030...108109110111112...120130140...Last »

Also filed under "Agents & Toxins":