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Texas researchers improve Rift Valley vaccine – FierceVaccines

Texas researchers improve Rift Valley vaccineFierceVaccinesAccording to the WHO, infections in humans are usually mild, with flu-like symptoms, but it can lead to eye disease and blindness, meningoencephalitis (inflammation of the brain and the membranes around the brain) or hemorrhagic fever (causing severe …and more »

June 28, 2012
| Filed under Countermeasures
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Pharma companies share $400m US biosecurity contract

(InPharm) GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Emergent BioSolutions will share a $400 million contract from the US government to provide vaccine manufacturing capacity that can be called upon in the event of a pandemic or bioterrorism. The three companies will help provide infrastructure – either new or retrofitted facilities – that can be used to provide a Read More »

June 27, 2012
| Filed under North America, Bioterrorism, Countermeasures, and Public Health
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UN food agency calls for collective action to combat foot-and-mouth disease

(UN News Centre) Collective action and solid commitments to a global strategy are necessary to control foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), the United Nations food agency stressed today. “Recent FMD outbreaks around the globe demonstrate that animal diseases have no boundaries, can have a devastating impact and require a global response,” the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Read More »

June 27, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Agriculture, Countermeasures, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Biodefense board takes on situational awareness, SNS tasks

(CIDRAP News) The National Biodefense Science Board (NBSB) during its meeting today took on two new tasks: to help guide federal efforts to improve situational awareness for potential public health emergencies and to help work out a strategy for improving and modernizing the management of the government’s Strategic National Stockpile (SNS). The requests came from Read More »

June 26, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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U.S. Eyes Bioterrorism Threat

(The Diplomat) I wrote last month about the importance the U.S. government should place on the threat of biological, and how domestic politics risked hampering progress on one of the United States most pressing security issues. Congress has previously acknowledged the seriousness of the threat, with the Weapons of Mass Destruction Committee reporting to Congress Read More »