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WSU scientists find new way for antibiotic resistance to spread

(EurekAlert) Washington State University researchers have found an unlikely recipe for antibiotic resistant bacteria: Mix cow dung and soil, and add urine infused with metabolized antibiotic. The urine will kill off normal E. coli in the dung-soil mixture. But antibiotic-resistant E. coli will survive in the soil to recolonize in a cow’s gut through pasture, Read More »

November 16, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Public Health, and Research
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SA scientists study deadly disease

(KSAT) For the past 12 years, scientists at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio have been studying some of the most infectious diseases on the planet. Every day, scientists work with these deadly viruses in an effort to find vaccines to prevent their spread. Working inside a lab with deadly viruses like Ebola, Read More »

November 15, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Bioterrorism, Countermeasures, Public Health, and Research
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World Health Organization warns of “spreading” yellow fever outbreak in Darfur

(CBS News) A yellow fever outbreak has hit Sudan’s Darfur region, infecting up to 350 people and killing 107 in the last six weeks, the World Health Organization announced Tuesday. The WHO warns that the disease could spread all over the country. As of Nov. 11, the WHO said in a statement there were 329 Read More »

November 14, 2012
| Filed under Africa, North America, Agents & Toxins, International, and Public Health
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Nuclear and Chem-Bio Weapons Prohibition

(In Depth News) A gathering theme in world affairs is the desirability of a treaty [convention] to ban nuclear weapons. Such a treaty would bring the following benefits to all states and people: freedom from nuclear war or nuclear attack, freedom from possible “false-alarm” nuclear missile launch, and freedom from possible acquisition by terrorists of Read More »

November 14, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Biological Weapons, and International
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DHS Official Opposes Next-Gen Biowatch Sensors

(Global Security Newswire) A senior official does not believe the Homeland Security Department should proceed with plans to develop a third generation of sensors for identifying acts of biological terrorism, the Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday. Undersecretary for Science and Technology Tara O’Toole has advised her boss, Homeland Secretary Janet Napolitano, that the planned Read More »