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Bird Flu Outbreak? The Vaccine (Patch) Is in the Mail

(US News) If a flu pandemic breaks out, the last thing the government wants is for people to rush to hospitals and doctors’ offices to get vaccinated among lots of already sick people. To prevent such a scenario, a self-administered flu vaccine is being developed that could be mailed out to the masses. The vaccine, Read More »

August 24, 2012
| Filed under North America, Public Health, and Research
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Early warnings on BioWatch

(LA Times) Scientists who helped pioneer BioWatch, the government’s system for detecting a biological attack on the U.S., knew from the start that it was prone to false alarms, records show. Between 2003, when the nationwide network of air samplers was first deployed, and 2006, officials at the federally funded Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory filed Read More »

August 23, 2012
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Ebola Virus kills everyone in its path: Here is what you need to know

(Standard Digital) In surreal scenes worthy of science fiction from Hollywood coming to the Third World, masked men and women dressed in sterile overalls started quarantining the crowded Gulu district of northern Uganda where 63 cases of the highly contagious and deadly Ebola virus were confirmed. Unchecked Ebola, identified in 1976, can cut through a Read More »

August 23, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Biosafety, and Public Health
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The Next Horrible Virus Outbreak Might Be Our Fault

(Gizmodo) SARS feels like as much a distant memory of the 2000s as Sean Paul songs, but it’s very much alive. In fact, it’s breeding in labs around the world—and our own research could trigger the next epidemic. According to a recent, chilling report published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, we might be Read More »

August 22, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, and Public Health
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MMV develops framework to assess risk of resistance for antimalarial compounds

(EurekAlert) Medicines for Malaria Venture has developed a framework to evaluate the risk of resistance for the antimalarial compounds in its portfolio. A paper based on this work: A framework for assessing the risk of resistance for antimalarials in development has been published in the Malaria Journal today. Resistance defines the longevity of every anti-infective Read More »