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Mail Carrier Med Delivery Exercise Has 95% Success Rate

(Global Security Newswire) U.S. Postal Service workers were able to deliver empty tablet containers to roughly 95 percent of the homes included in a May biological attack response exercise in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy reported on Thursday. On May 6, participating mail distribution personnel dropped Read More »

August 10, 2012
| Filed under North America, Public Health, and Research
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Scientists describe antibodies that protect against large variety of flu viruses

(EurekAlert)A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute and Crucell Vaccine Institute in the Netherlands describes three human antibodies that provide broad protection against Influenza B virus strains. The same team had previously reported finding broadly neutralizing antibodies against Influenza A strains. The isolation of the new broadly neutralizing antibodies, which was reported Read More »

August 10, 2012
| Filed under North America, Biosafety, Public Health, and Research
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Ebola in Uganda: Should we worry in the US?

(Fox News) In Uganda’s western town of Kagadi, a drama is playing put that has both the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on high alert. In the town, 53 cases of the dreaded hemorrhagic fever disease Ebola are suspected, with 16 deaths reported so far. Physicians from the French Read More »

August 10, 2012
| Filed under Africa, North America, Biosafety, International, and Public Health
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Scientists report successful vaccine developed against deadly Nipah virus

(EurekAlert) A team of federal and university scientists reports a major breakthrough in the development of a highly effective vaccine against the deadly Nipah virus. The results of their study, “A Hendra virus G glycoprotein subunit vaccine protects African green monkeys from Nipah virus challenge,” will appear in Science Translational Medicine online. The full study Read More »

August 9, 2012
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The Unacceptable Risks of a Man-made Pandemic

(Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) Now that world attention finally has been focused on the potentially human-contagious H5N1 Asian bird-flu virus, the international research community should take steps to deal with three other potential pandemic pathogens. Two are among history’s nightmares: smallpox, which killed or maimed millions of people over centuries as it ravaged the world, Read More »