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It’s time to get serious about chemical and biological preparedness

(Government Security News) In Washington, attention has shifted from the daily grind towards a hyper-partisan presidential campaign. Battle lines are sharply cast between Republican challenger, Governor Mitt Romney, and the incumbent, President Barack Obama. While all eyes are on the economy, national security challenges abound. Obama’s killing of Bin Laden and targeting terrorists with Predator  Read More »

Vaccine project shelved over production costs

(Times of India) PUNE: An ambitious plan to indigenously develop a vaccine against the deadly Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) had to be shelved because the pharmaceutical companies did not find large-scale production of the vaccine economically viable. Pune-based National Institute of Virology (NIV) had developed a candidate vaccine against the virus. But it had  Read More »

Tainted meat fears allayed

(Gulf Daily News) BAHRAIN has nothing to fear following a health scare involving infected meat imported from Djibouti. An investigation into the allegation has been ordered by His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa after reports surfaced that the cattle imported into the country was infected with foot-and-mouth disease and tuberculosis.  Read More »

UMass Amherst biochemists developing tools to stop plague and other bacterial threats

(University of Massachusetts at Amherst) iochemist Alejandro Heuck at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently received a five-year, $950,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to map the molecular structure of a needle-like tool used by deadly bacteria to drill holes in mammalian cell walls. Once a channel is open, bacteria that cause such  Read More »

Building a better Rift Valley fever vaccine

(University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) University of Texas Medical Branch researchers have significantly improved an existing experimental vaccine for Rift Valley fever virus, making possible the development of a more effective defense against the dangerous mosquito-borne pathogen. The African virus causes fever in humans, inflicting liver damage, blindness, encephalitis and even death on  Read More »

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