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Review calls for new federal approach to medical countermeasures

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today released an examination of the federal government’s system to produce medications, vaccines, equipment and supplies needed for a health emergency, known as medical countermeasures.

August 19, 2010
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New smallpox vaccine delivered to U.S. national stockpile

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the last case of smallpox in the United States was in 1949, and the last naturally occurring case in the world was in Somalia in 1977; the virus still exists in laboratory stockpiles, however, and after the terrorist attacks on 9/11, “there is heightened concern Read More »

August 17, 2010
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Texas A&M bioterrorism research may yield rabies cure

Rabies infection is an unusual event in the United States, but it is a problem that kills more than 50,000 people around the world every year; the U.S. Department of Defense is funding research at Texas A&M on counter-measures to bioterrorism — but one of the most immediate outcomes of A&M's research could be a Read More »

August 16, 2010
| Filed under North America and Countermeasures
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Notification of Single Source Cooperative Agreement Award for the World Health Organization (WHO)

August 11, 2010
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, and Countermeasures
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Elusys Awarded Additional $40.6M Under Existing U.S. Government Contract To Fund Further Development Of Anthrax Vaccine

Elusys Therapeutics, Inc. (Elusys), a privately-held biopharmaceutical company, announced today that it has been awarded a second contract year of funding valued at $40.6 million for the advanced development of Anthim for the prevention and treatment of anthrax infection following a biowarfare attack