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Heroin user treated for anthrax in 12th confirmed case of disease in Europe since June

(Birmingham Mail) A drug user has been taken to hospital with anthrax infection after injecting a suspected contaminated batch of heroin. The case in Oxford follows the deaths of two people who injected drugs from a confirmed anthrax infection in Blackpool in August and September. The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said it was the 12th  Read More »

Treatment for inhalation anthrax, raxibacumab, gets through FDA committee

(The Examiner) An injectable drug for the treatment of inhalation anthrax has been recommended by the Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, according to a GlaxoSmithKline press release Nov. 2. The drug, raxibacumab injection, is a monoclonal antibody targeting the protective antigen (PA) component of the lethal toxin of Bacillus  Read More »

USAID increases funding for emerging disease threats

(Vaccine News) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations announced on Monday that the United States Agency for International Development contributed more than $20 million in new funding to fight emerging disease threats. The funds will support the partnership between the U.S. and the FAO against H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza and other  Read More »

CDC releases report on worldwide influenza projects

(Vaccine News) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released an annual report on Monday profiling a variety of CDC influenza-related projects from around the world, including epidemiology training, vaccine effectiveness studies and flu surveillance. The CDC began its international flu efforts in 1997 when the agency investigated the first human infections with the  Read More »

Biosecurity: ashes to ashes

(The Guardian) The last few days offer a salutary reminder of how a species that can seem to control everything is not in control of some very important things. There isn’t much equivalence between the towering force of super-storm Sandy and the insidious progress of Chalara fraxinea, the fungal disease that threatens the UK’s third  Read More »

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