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Novel Antimicrobials for Killing Anthrax

(Global Biodefense) The CDC’s Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology (DHCPP) Bacterial and Special Pathogens Branch this week announced its intent to issue a purchase order to the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute for the production of novel antimicrobials for specific killing of Bacillus anthracis.

June 8, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Policy & Initiatives
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Emergent BioSolutions Secures Additional Funding from BARDA to Pursue Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Indication for BioThrax

(Press Release) Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (NYSE: EBS) announced today that it has reached an agreement with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to conduct a non-interference study to be used to support a Read More »

June 6, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Virus-Hunting In Africa

(Wall Street Journal) Global health is big business nowadays. The sums can be enormous, but the health problems in the developing world are even larger, often seeming intractable. Health care everywhere involves stark economic and political choices, but in the developing world these may involve such basic questions as whether to build a hospital or Read More »

June 6, 2012
| Filed under Africa, North America, Agents & Toxins, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Emergent BioSolutions Secures $8.43M to Test Anthrax Vaccine in Postexposure Setting

(Genetic Engineering News) Emergent BioSolutions will conduct a noninterference study, which will be used to support a postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) indication for anthrax vaccine BioThrax® under an agreement with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA). This agreement provides the company with up to $8.43 million in additional funding.

June 5, 2012
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Early vaccination key to new FMD response plan

(Beef Central) Early vaccination will play an important role in a new national Foot and Mouth Disease policy developed by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. The new policy is designed to improve Australia’s preparedness against the disease. DAFF Deputy Secretary, Rona Mellor, said while Australia has been free of foot-and-mouth disease for more Read More »