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Bavarian Nordic Receives a USD 25 Million Milestone Payment…

(Reuters) … today announced that it has received a performance-based milestone payment of USD 25 million under the contract with the US government to deliver 20 million doses of its unlicensed smallpox vaccine, IMVAMUNE® to the US Strategic National Stockpile. …

October 31, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biotechnology, Countermeasures, and Public Health
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Federal advisers endorse testing anthrax vaccine in children

(Washington Post) The National Biodefense Science Board (NBSB), which advises the federal government on issues related to bioterrorism, voted 12-1 to recommend that the Health and Human Services Department move forward with a study aimed at determining whether the …

October 31, 2011
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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No anthrax vaccine testing on children for now

(USA Today) Should the anthrax vaccine be tested in children? It will be a while longer before the government decides. AP Jonah Jacobson, a VaxGen lab technician, holds a syringe of anthrax vaccine. AP Jonah Jacobson, a VaxGen lab technician, holds a syringe of …</b

October 31, 2011
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Testing the Anthrax Vaccine in Children

(Science Blogs) In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, our government intelligence agencies invented a biological weapons threat, imagining Iraqi stockpiles of smallpox virus and anthrax spores; stockpiles that were never found. Trust dissipated. …

October 31, 2011
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How to Test the Anthrax Vaccine in Children

(ABC News) ANTHONY ROBBINS Later this week, a Federal advisory committee, the Health and Human Service Department's National Biodefense Science Board will recommend whether and how the anthrax vaccine should be tested in children. Why is the board, …