Recent News

By Category: Agents & Toxins

CDC Details Cause of 2009 Plague Death

The University of Chicago scientist who died in 2009 while conducting vaccine research using a weakened strain of plague bacterium succumbed to his infection because of an underlying medical condition, Bloomberg reported last week (see GSN, Sept. 22, 2009). The enervated strain of Yersinia pestis that Malcolm Casadaban, 60, worked with was thought to pose  Read More »

South Korean farmers assess fallout of major outbreak of foot and mouth disease

An outbreak of foot and mouth disease has plunged the South Korean farming sector into crisis mode, threatening the livelihoods of a generation of farmers and hitting consumers.

Russia Argues For Keeping Smallpox Strains

Russia’s top public health official argued it is too soon to eliminate the world’s last known strains of smallpox held in his country and the United States, Interfax reported yesterday (see GSN, Jan. 24). Smallpox was declared eliminated from nature in 1980. Russia and the United States have asserted they should be allowed to retain  Read More »

Chemistry Professor’s Work Could Lead to Anthrax Cure

A Wichita State University chemistry professor has been making headway in his research to save the lives of anthrax victims. Associate chemistry professor Jim Bann, working with students in his WSU lab, has developed a new amino acid that could prevent the deadly toxin from killing its victim during an anthrax attack. Bann received a  Read More »

New Protein Could be Used Against Anthrax

Wichita State University researchers have prepared a protein that someday could be used as a defense against anthrax, the Kansas institution announced on Friday (see GSN, Nov. 18, 2010). In laboratory testing, chemistry professor Jim Bann and his team of scientists used the amino acid fluorohistidine to shield cells from the anthrax pathogen’s ability to  Read More »

« First...102030...151152153154155

Also filed under "Agents & Toxins":