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South Korea in rare offer of aid to North for foot-and-mouth outbreak | Reuters

South Korea in rare offer of aid to North for foot-and-mouth outbreak

(Reuters) South Korea has offered North Korea help with an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in pigs, which would be the first government-level humanitarian help since 2010 and comes as ties between the rivals have been warming. North Korea’s Ministry of Agriculture said in state news agency report on Saturday at least 3,200 pigs had been  Read More »

Bavarian Nordic to Develop Biodefense Vaccine

(Global Biodefense) The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has selected a vaccine platform from Bavarian Nordic A/S for the development of a vaccine against two potential biological threats to national security – Burkholderia pseudomallei and Burkholderia mallei. Under this new contract Bavarian Nordic will design, generate and test recombinant vaccines against Burkholderia. If the contract  Read More »

Health security effort to boost global disease response

(The Dolphin) Top administration officials joined representatives from federal agencies and 26 nations to launch an international effort that will help to boost the global capacity to prevent, detect and respond to disease outbreaks, Feb. 13. At the Department of Health and Human Services headquarters, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Lisa Monaco, assistant to the  Read More »

DTRA Contracts for Botulinum Neurotoxin Countermeasures Research

(Global Biodefense) The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) this week announced intentions to award three contracts in support of “Medical Countermeasures for Botulinum Neurotoxin Intoxication Focused on Therapeutics and Neuroregenerative Medicines”. DTRA has established a multicenter program in which directed research projects are submitted, evaluated and selected to sponsor a network of collaboration amongst researchers.  Read More »

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