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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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Designer Flu: How scientists made a killer virus airborne — and who should know

(Science News) Last summer, scientists performed an experiment that could have been ripped from the script of a Hollywood thriller. Sealed off in high-tech laboratories in the Netherlands and Wisconsin, researchers transformed one of the world’s most deadly viruses, transmissible by direct contact, into versions capable of spreading through the air.

May 21, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, International, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Emergent BioSolutions Receives FDA Approval for BioThrax Administered Intramuscularly in a Three-Dose Primary Series Followed by Booster Doses

(Press Release) Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) to change the administration schedule of BioThrax(R) (Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed) to a three-dose primary series of intramuscular injections at 0, 1, and 6 months. The booster series consists of intramuscular injections at Read More »

May 18, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Public Health
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Panel debates bioterrorism protection for children

(Huffington Post) WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is asking a presidential commission to help decide an ethical quandary: Should the anthrax vaccine and other treatments being stockpiled in case of a bioterror attack be tested in children? “We can’t just assume that what we have for adults works for children,” Health and Human Services Secretary Read More »

May 18, 2012
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, Public Health, and Research
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Anthrax vaccine trial meets bioethicists

(Nature News Blog) An anthrax vaccine would protect civilians from the long-term effects of a bioterrorist attack. But there’s no telling how children would react to the shots. To assess the ethics of a trial, in which kids would get an anthrax vaccine unlikely to ever be necessary, a federal committee met today in Washington Read More »