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Smallpox vaccine doubles liver cancer survival time

(New Scientist) Smallpox vaccine has doubled the survival time of people with advanced liver cancer. The vaccine that eradicated smallpox consists of a live virus, Vaccinia, with a surprising taste for tumours. It prefers to infect cancer cells because they turn off …

Cost, need questioned in $433-million smallpox drug deal

(Los Angeles Times) Reporting from Washington— Over the last year, the Obama administration has aggressively pushed a $433-million plan to buy an experimental smallpox drug, despite uncertainty over whether it is needed or will work. Senior officials have taken unusual steps to secure the contract for New York-based Siga Technologies Inc., whose controlling shareholder is  Read More »

Ministry of health assures on anthrax outbreak

(UGPulse.com) The ministry of health says the recent outbreak of Anthrax disease in the western region is under control and should not cause panic. The outbreak was reported in Sheema district, with 2 people and 3 animals reported dead and is suspected to have spread …

IOM Study: Shipboard Hazard and Defense II (SHAD II)

From 1962-1973, more than 5,800 military personnel — mostly Navy personnel and Marines — participated in Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense), a series of tests of U.S. warship vulnerability to biological and chemical warfare agents. Many of these tests used simulants, substances with the physical properties of chemical or biological warfare agents, which at  Read More »

The LWOT: Georgia men charged with bioterrorism plot

(Foreign Policy) Four elderly men identified as Frederick Thomas, Dan Roberts, Ray Adams and Samuel Crump were arrested by FBI officers on November 1 in their hometown of Toccoa, Georgia for allegedly plotting to blow up government buildings and assassinate officials using ricin, a powerful toxin derived from castor beans

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