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Simulated disaster drill conducted at CWC Monday tested Public Health Response …

(County 10) The premise of Monday’s drill was a mock release of anthrax. The Fremont County Public Health Department’s mobile emergency response trailer, equipped with two fully equipped nursing stations, was put into action and various stations were set up inside the college’s gym where potential victims were screened and then directed to several medication Read More »

March 27, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Army Won’t Build New Countermeasure Research Laboratory

(Global Security Newswire) The U.S. Army on Wednesday said it would not move forward with plans for a new biodefense research site at Fort Detrick in Maryland, the Frederick News-Post reported. Operations that had been anticipated at the Medical Countermeasures Test and Evaluation Facility are now set to be conducted at new laboratory space already Read More »

March 23, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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Bavarian Nordic May Seek Government Funding for Anthrax Vaccine

(Bloomberg) The company is using its MVA-BN technology to combine vaccines for anthrax and smallpox and offer protection against two major biological threats. The US National Institutes of Health funded studies of Bavarian Nordic’s Imvamune smallpox vaccine, …

March 22, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, Agents & Toxins, Countermeasures, International, and Research
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Twin Cities to test mass delivery of emergency meds by mail

(CIDRAP News) Mail carriers will deliver empty pill bottles to about 35000 homes in Minneapolis and St. Paul on May 6, in the area’s first test of a program to quickly provide antibiotics to the populace in the event of an anthrax attack …

March 22, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Pathogen Detection System Takes a Cue from Fireflies

(Food Safety News) Biology researchers in the United Kingdom have developed a device that can detect foodborne pathogens using a variant of a simple, seemingly unlikely chemical: Firefly luciferase, the enzyme that makes fireflies’ abdomens light up. The device, called “Bioluminescent Assay in Real-Time” (BART), pinpoints harmful bacteria such as Salmonella and Listeria on food Read More »