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Testimony of the Honorable Tara O’Toole, MD, MPH before the US Senate

(DHS) Ten years after anthrax was mailed to members of the US Congress and to media organizations, dozens of policy, intelligence, and technical reports have affirmed the viability of terrorist groups using biological weapons to cause death, suffering, …

October 19, 2011
| Filed under North America, Agriculture, Biological Weapons, Biotechnology, Bioterrorism, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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NIH Supports Research on Multiuse Drugs For Biowarfare Agents

(GSN Daily News) The U.S. National Institutes of Health on Thursday said it had awarded millions of dollars in grant funding for four research projects aimed at developing medical countermeasures that could each be used against multiple potential biowarfare agents (see GSN, Sept. 8). The total worth of the four grants from the National Institute Read More »

October 17, 2011
| Filed under North America and Countermeasures
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NIH Awards $3.5M for Anthrax Vaccine Project

(GSN Daily News) The U.S. National Institutes of Health has awarded $3.5 million for work on a new anthrax vaccine by scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and Loyola University in Maryland, the San Francisco Business Times reported on Monday (see GSN, Oct. 4). “Nanolipoprotein” technology used in the development process could Read More »

October 13, 2011
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Research
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IOM spells out antibiotics strategy in an anthrax attack

(American Medical News) To prepare for a potential wide-scale anthrax attack, state and local health officials should determine how antibiotics should best be stored in their communities. One approach may be to dispense antibiotics to first responders, physicians and other …

October 11, 2011
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Postal Service to continue post-anthrax safeguards

(Washington Times) Despite being mired in the worst financial crisis in its history, the U.S. Postal Service has no plans to cut back on any of the bioterrorism preparedness measures that began in the wake of anthrax attacks through the U.S. mail system 10 years ago this month. The attacks, which killed five people, including Read More »