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Europe targets superbugs with public-private effort

(Nature News Blog) The growing threat from antibiotic resistance met the era of the public-private partnership on 24 May as the European Union’s Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) launched a new seven-year effort to bring academic and industry researchers together to work on the problem. Dubbed NewDrugs4BadBugs, the call for proposals is supported by a €223.7 Read More »

May 25, 2012
| Filed under Europe, Agents & Toxins, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Curtailed Funds Continue to Hurt Local Public Health

(Food Safety News) Since 2008, local public health departments in the United States have lost nearly 40,000 employees, and the situation continues to deteriorate, according to the most recent survey, conducted in January and February, by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). One health official told NACCHO that “fiscal year 2013 Read More »

May 25, 2012
| Filed under North America, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Outgoing superintendent of the Center for Domestic Preparedness praised for ‘right decisions’

(Anniston Star) While delivering a speech to local leaders and CDP staff and trainees, Jones said the biggest expansion during his time at the center was adding live biological agents to CDP’s training and giving trainees first-hand experience of dealing with mass-casualty disaster and acts of biological terrorism. “We’re better for it, and what we Read More »

May 25, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Upper East: Two more people die from anthrax

(GhanaWeb) Two more people have been reported dead in fresh cases of anthrax in the Upper East region. It follows a vaccination exercise which was thought to have brought the situation under control after two humans and 20 cows died from an outbreak of the deadly infections at Gogo in the Bawku West district last Read More »

May 25, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Agriculture, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Detecting biological terror agents

(Homeland Security NewsWire) PositiveID Corporation is testing its M-BAND bioagent detection system in preparation for DHS’s $3 billion BioWatch procurement; M-BAND can be remotely set to detect for DNA-based pathogens alone, with or without either RNA-based organisms or toxins, or for all three types of pathogens simultaneously at remotely programmable intervals.