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Report: Prepositioning Antibiotics for Anthrax

If terrorists released Bacillus anthracis over a large city, hundreds of thousands of people could be at risk of the deadly disease anthrax – caused by the B anthracis spores – unless they had rapid access to antibiotic medical countermeasures (MCM). The spores can be inhaled, be ingested, or come into contact with the skin.  Read More »

Strides in biodefense follow 2001 anthrax scare

(USA Today) "We are certainly better prepared now, than we were ten years ago," says physician Eric Toner of the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. "But there is still a lot of work to be done." Toner says that a good, …

CBS Studios Anthrax Scare: White Powder Found In An Envelope

(Huffington Post) Figueroa also goes on to say that no one ever associated the "suspicious envelope" with anthrax — but in our defense, that's pretty much where the mind goes when white powder is found in the mailroom. The suspicious white powder was found around 2 pm …

Pentagon Awards $3.1M For Tularemia Study

The U.S. Defense Department has awarded $3.1 million to an Albany Medical College researcher conducting a study on tularemia, the New York Business Review reported on Tuesday (see GSN, April 13). The bacterial disease is considered potential candidate for terrorists to use in a biological weapons attack. Albany Medical College Center for Immunology and Microbial  Read More »

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, …

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