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Ebola Victims Face 90% Death Risk; Drugs Start to Emerge

(Bloomberg) Almost 40 years after Ebola emerged from the jungles of Africa as one of the world’s most lethal diseases, scientists are beginning to close in on treatments that may be able to stop the virus. People who are at risk of infection have little protection for now against a virus that kills as many Read More »

March 25, 2014
| Filed under Africa, Agents & Toxins, Countermeasures, International, and Public Health
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Hatboro man charged in attempted ricin murder

(The Intelligencer) A deadly scratch-and-sniff birthday card was in the hand of a Warminster girl when her mother told her to stop and put it back in the mailbox. Police were on the phone with the mother March 7 warning her that a Hatboro man had left a ricin-laced card there. Within minutes, investigators went Read More »

March 20, 2014
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, and Biocrimes
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Ricin Seized Separately in D.C. Dorm Room, Scratch-and-Sniff Card

(Global Security News Wire) Authorities verified the presence of ricin toxin in powder seized from a Georgetown University dormitory earlier this week, the Washington Post reports. FBI officials were interrogating a student “subject” in relation to the lethal material, which posed “no immediate threat” to university residents, campus police chief Jay Gruber said in Wednesday Read More »

March 20, 2014
| Filed under Agents & Toxins and Biocrimes
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Unexplained hemorrhagic fever kills 23 in Guinea

(Health24) An outbreak of hemorrhagic fever has killed at least 23 people in Guinea’s South-eastern forest region since February when the first case was reported, health authorities in the West African nation said. At least 35 cases have been recorded by local health officials, said Sakoba Keita, the doctor in charge of the prevention of Read More »