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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 »

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 »

Carl Zimmer: Curing our Influenza Amnesia

(World Science Festival) Our brains are not the only places where we can store memories. Each time a new pathogen invades our bodies, our immune cells have an opportunity to recognize it by some feature, usually some distinctive cleft or spike of a protein on its surface. After our bodies defeat the infection, some immune  Read More »

Mad Cow: No Problems Found in Feed Records

(Food Safety News) Investigators found no irregularities in the feed records at the California dairy where a 10-year-old cow last month was confirmed to have had bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or mad cow disease), the U.S. Department of Agriculture stated in a follow-up report this week. The May 15 report to the World Organization for  Read More »

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 »

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