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Ricin Possibly Found in McCarthy Hall

(The Hoya) A report of a potentially hazardous substance prompted D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services to conduct a test for biological agents in McCarthy Hall early Tuesday morning, leading to the discovery of possible ricin. While the tests proved negative, according to a campus-wide email from Georgetown University Chief of Police Jay Gruber, law  Read More »

NIH Scientists Track Evolution of a Superbug

(Global Biodefense) Using genome sequencing, National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists and their colleagues have tracked the evolution of the antibiotic-resistant bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 258 (ST258), an important agent of hospital-acquired infections. While researchers had previously thought that ST258 K. pneumoniae strains spread from a single ancestor, the NIH team showed that the  Read More »

Dengue Discoveries Preventing Deadly Disease

(Liberty Voice) Recent research into mosquitos and the deadly dengue virus shows new promise for preventing transmission of the disease. Roughly 50 to 100 million cases of infection are reported annually, and several tropical countries saw an increase in their numbers during 2013. In Costa Rica for example, the number of registered cases more than  Read More »

The Only Thing Scarier Than Bio-Warfare is the Antidote

(Newsweek) It was spring 1979 in Sverdlovsk, Russia, a large industrial city straddling the border of Europe and Asia in what was then the Soviet Union. Without warning, 96 residents became ill, with symptoms similar to a severe flu: fever and chills, sore throat and headaches, with some nausea and vomiting. Just the usual one-week  Read More »

RFI – Identification of Diagnostic Devices for Biological Threats

(Global Biodefense) The Department of Defense is collecting information from companies who are currently in the U.S. domestic healthcare market or are considering a future entry into the market for FDA-cleared diagnostics for human diseases caused by exposure to biological threat agents. The Request for Information (RFI) submission period originally closed in January of this  Read More »

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