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Infocast’s 10th Annual Biodefense Vaccines & Therapeutics Conference

(Marketwire) Congress Moves on Important Measures for Biodefense and Public Health Emergencies. he Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA) Reauthorization moves to conference committee following unanimous approval by the U.S. Senate. According to Senator Richard Burr, R-N.C., the lead sponsor of the Senate bill, “We have come a long way in improving our nation’s ability Read More »

May 23, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Policy & Initiatives
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US Government Supports Phase 3 Study of Bavarian Nordic’s Smallpox Vaccine

(Press Release) Bavarian Nordic announced today that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has supported the initiation of an expanded Phase 3 study of IMVAMUNE® smallpox vaccine. The government is stockpiling 20 million doses of IMVAMUNE® under a Project BioShield contract for use in a potential smallpox emergency. The company’s procurement contract was Read More »

May 23, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biotechnology, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Pandemic 2009 H1N1 vaccination produces antibodies against multiple flu strains

(Emory University) The pandemic 2009 H1N1 vaccine can generate antibodies in vaccinated individuals not only against the H1N1 virus, but also against other influenza virus strains including H5N1 and H3N2. This discovery adds an important new dimension to the finding last year that people infected with pandemic 2009 H1N1 virus produced high levels of antibodies Read More »

May 23, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Countermeasures, and Public Health
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Clinic CBRN team conducts decontamination training

(Naval Health Clinic Public Affairs) Thirteen Sailors from Naval Health Clinic Patuxent River’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Decontamination Team completed the “First Receiver Operations Training” exercise May 1-3. Led by the clinic’s emergency manager, Chief Hospital Corpsman Jeremy Raymond, the FROT exercise was conducted on clinic grounds, simulating the arrival of “contaminated” casualties seeking Read More »

May 21, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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S. Korea to map out plan to counter bioterrorism

(Yonhap) South Korea plans to set up a five-year plan to better protect itself from possible biological terrorist attacks, the country’s public health and safety agency said Monday. The 2013-2017 plan calls for extensive research and development (R&D) to create vaccines and antidotes, quick detection and precise diagnosis of harmful agents, and the collection of Read More »