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Planned CDC Funding Cut Seen Endangering Key Biodefense Efforts

(Global Security Newswire) Congressional appropriations for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might fall by $664 million under the Obama administration’s fiscal 2013 budget request, a reduction that could significantly undermine U.S. medical preparedness and countermeasure programs if backup funding sources fall through, the journal Nature reported on Tuesday. The proposed reduction would Read More »

March 5, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Bavarian Nordic Submits a Marketing Application for its Smallpox Vaccine to …

(Reuters) Bavarian Nordic announced today that it has submitted a Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for its smallpox vaccine (IMVAMUNE R) that will be marketed …

March 2, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Countermeasures, and International
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Two cancer drugs may halt Ebola

(San Antonio Express) Testing of the drugs took place in the biosafety level-4 lab at Texas Biomedical Research Institute, in collaboration with government scientists and researchers in Houston and Atlanta. The two leukemia drugs, nilotinib and imatinib, don’t attack the …

March 1, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Research
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Skin-Deep Immunity

(The Scientist) The smallpox vaccine was the first, and arguably most successful, vaccine ever put into practice, and it was scratched into the skin of individuals. With the invention of syringes and hypodermic needles, …

March 1, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Public Health, and Research
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US disease agency in fiscal peril

(Nature.com) Core funding is also used to maintain the Strategic National Stockpile, a repository of drugs reserved for fighting epidemics and bioterrorism. If Obama’s plan is enacted, the CDC’s congressionally controlled funding will have fallen by roughly 20% …