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Lab Samples Of Live Smallpox Should Not Be Destroyed To Ensure Critical …

Medical News Today – In a Comment published Online First by The Lancet to coincide with the World Health Assembly (WHA), scientists appeal to the internationally community not to set an arbitrary date for the destruction of the final smallpox-causing variola virus samples

May 20, 2011
| Filed under Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Industry, Academia Race to Create Drugs Against Biological Warfare

NATIONAL DEFENSE MAGAZINE — Experts tend to arrange biological threats in tiers. And anthrax may very well have an entire shelf to itself. After all, it was a series of deadly letters containing anthrax sent through the mail just weeks after 9/11 that spawned the biodefense industry as it exists today. On the heels of Read More »

May 16, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biotechnology, Bioterrorism, and Countermeasures
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Protest Filed Against BARDA Over Smallpox Antiviral Biodefense Contract

Siga, a pharmaceutical company that develops medicines to fight the effects of potential bioterrorism attacks, announced Friday afternoon that it had won a contract to deliver its smallpox antiviral medicine to the government's stockpile of emergency …

May 16, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biotechnology, and Countermeasures
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BARDA supports first Project BioShield contract for smallpox drug Contract funds late-stage development, future acquisition of antiviral drug to treat smallpox

HHS NEWS — The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) today announced a five-year, $433 million contract for late-stage development of an antiviral drug to treat individuals infected with smallpox. The contract with SIGA Technologies Inc., of New York City also includes procurement of 1.7 million treatment courses of the drug, ST-246, within five Read More »

May 16, 2011
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Policy & Initiatives
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Personal biosecurity for livestock farm visits

CATTLE NETWORK — Recent animal health problems in Asia and elsewhere keep pointing to the need to reconsider our defense against emerging animal diseases. In the last decade, biosecurity has often been talked about in agriculture, but practiced haphazardly. Animal biosecurity covers a variety of management strategies aimed at preventing viruses, pathogenic bacteria, parasites and Read More »