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$3 million awarded to find biomarkers for potential test of cure for chagas disease

(EurekAlert) Today at the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) announces a new $3 million Strategic Translation Award from the Wellcome Trust to identify new biological markers for the evaluation of treatment efficacy in Chagas disease, a potentially fatal neglected tropical  Read More »

DHS Tries Monitoring Social Media for Signs of Biological Attacks

(Global Security Newswire) The Homeland Security Department has commissioned Accenture to test technology that mines open social networks for indications of pandemics, according to the vendor. The $3 million, yearlong “biosurveillance” program will try to instantaneously spot public health trends among the massive amount of data that citizens share online daily, company officials said in  Read More »

Sask. firm’s documentary on biological warfare to be seen worldwide

(Leader-Post) A Saskatchewan-based company is making big waves internationally with its new documentary. Invisible Threat, produced by Saskatchewan’s 4 Square Entertainment, will premiere Saturday at 10 p.m. on CityTV. Early in 2013, it will be seen worldwide on the Al Jazeera English network. Gerald Sperling, president of 4 Square and executive producer of Invisible Threat,  Read More »

Research on anthrax vaccine on to counteract threat of bioterrorism

(Domain-B) Scientists at Queen’s University Belfast are aiming to help counteract the threat of bioterrorism by undertaking new research to develop a vaccine against anthrax. Dr Rebecca Ingram from the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences at Queen’s is working with scientists from Cardiff University, the Republic of Georgia, Turkey and the USA in  Read More »

Anthrax outbreak kills 30 hippos

(iAfrica) Thirty hippos have been killed by a bacterial outbreak in the Kruger National Park (KNP), the SA National Parks (SANParks) said on Monday. SANParks said an anthrax outbreak was identified in late August and post mortem results confirmed that most of the dead hippos were infected. The carcasses were discovered along the Letaba and  Read More »

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