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U.S. Restructures $1.5B Biodefense Research Effort

The U.S. Defense Department is significantly restructuring a 5-year-old, $1.5 billion program amid charges it is failing in its mission to develop countermeasures employable against large classes of potential biological warfare agents, Nature reported last week (see GSN, Jan. 18). The Defense Threat Reduction Agency is incorporating elements of the Transformational Medical Technologies Initiative into  Read More »

Strategic National Stockpile Still Lacking Key Medical Treatments

The decade since the 2001 anthrax attacks has seen notable successes in efforts to build up the U.S. Strategic National Stockpile of medical countermeasures, but significant gaps remain in fielding treatments for a WMD incident, the Associated Press reported on Monday (see GSN, Feb. 8). (Sep. 27) – A corridor of the U.S. Strategic National  Read More »

Anthrax continues to haunt farms, livestock in southern Italy

(Washington Post) Anthrax, a deadly animal disease used in biological warfare, is spreading in southern Italy, killing livestock on farms as far as 50 kilometers (31 miles) from where three outbreaks were reported a week ago. The illness killed cattle, …

Fact Sheet: Global Health Security

(Whitehouse.gov) Through fora such as the UN Security Resolution 1540, the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), and the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States is pursuing a common vision where disease no longer threatens the security and prosperity of …

HHS anthrax vaccine advisors weigh pediatric use

(CIDRAP) However, no studies have been conducted in children, who make up 25% of the US population, though federal bioterror response plans call for both groups to receive three doses of the vaccine, alongside antibiotic prophylaxis, after an anthrax attack. …

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