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New Tools to Hunt New Viruses

(TheNewYorkTimes) A new flu, H7N9, has killed 36 people since it was first found in China two months ago. A new virus from the SARS family has killed 22 people since it was found on the Arabian Peninsula last summer. In past years, this might have been occasion for panic. Yet chicken and pork sales Read More »

May 28, 2013
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, North America, South Asia, Agents & Toxins, International, Public Health, and Research
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Chapel Hill drug firm Cempra lands bioterror antibiotic contract worth up to $58M

(WRAL) Cempra (Nasdaq: CEMP) has won a contract worth as much as $58 million over five years from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) for development of an antibiotic that could be used by young people and to counter bioterror threats. The company has secured a two-year deal worth $17 million to work Read More »

May 28, 2013
| Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Salmonella uses protective switch during infection

(EurekAlert) For the first time, researchers have found a particular kind of molecular switch in the food poisoning bacteria Salmonella Typhimurium under infection-like conditions. This switch, using a process called S-thiolation, appears to be used by the bacteria to respond to changes in the environment during infection and might protect it from harm, researchers report Read More »

May 28, 2013
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Sen. Roberts: NBAF Construction Set To Begin

(KCUR) Senator Pat Roberts’ office says the official groundbreaking for the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility will take place next Tuesday, May 28, on the site in Manhattan. The first phase of the project is to construct a utility plant and emergency power capacity dedicated to the top security labs.The $1.2 billion dollar facility Read More »

May 24, 2013
| Filed under Biological Weapons, Biosafety, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Anthrax drug brings $334 million to Pentagon advisor’s biotech firm

(TimesRecordNews) Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he called a major threat to national security. Terrorists, he warned, could easily engineer a devastating killer germ: a form Read More »

May 24, 2013
| Filed under North America, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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