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Docs Still at Front Line in Detecting Bioterrorism

(ABC News) Some individual clinician will be the key player the next time there's a covert bioterrorism attack, like the anthrax episode a decade ago. Despite a marked increase in resources aimed at detecting and …

October 27, 2011
| Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, and Public Health
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Reforms Seen Failing to Rescue U.S. Biodefense Drug Efforts

(GSN Daily News) Organizational problems and funding shortfalls continue to hinder U.S. efforts to develop and produce vaccines and other treatments for use following a potential act of bioterrorism, despite three attempts to overhaul the system since the 1990s, the New York Times reported on Wednesday (see GSN, Sept. 27).

October 27, 2011
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Possible study of anthrax vaccine’s effectiveness in children stirs debate

(Washington Post) The Obama administration is wrestling with the thorny question of whether scientists should inject healthy children with the anthrax vaccine to see whether the shots would safely protect them against a bioterrorism attack. The other option is to wait …

October 25, 2011
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Public Health
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Kit to detect Anthrax developed

(IBNLive.com) The DRDE, Gwalior, has developed a rapid ELISA kit for the detection of B Anthracis (AnthroDec) targeting Protective Antigen (PA) component of Anthrax toxin. Evaluation undertaken by WHO SARO in 2002 concluded that the kit had fairly high sensitivity …

October 24, 2011
| Filed under South Asia, Agents & Toxins, Biotechnology, and Public Health
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Postal workers mark 10 years since anthrax attacks

(Washington Post) Postal workers mark 10 years since anthrax attacksWashington Post (blog)By Ed O'Keefe Postal employees Thomas Morris Jr., left, and Joseph Curseen Jr., right, died in Oct. 2001 from exposure to anthrax. Employees of the US Postal Service plan to mark the 10th anniversary of the anthrax mail attacks and the deaths of two Read More »