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Treatment for inhalation anthrax, raxibacumab, gets through FDA committee

(The Examiner) An injectable drug for the treatment of inhalation anthrax has been recommended by the Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, according to a GlaxoSmithKline press release Nov. 2. The drug, raxibacumab injection, is a monoclonal antibody targeting the protective antigen (PA) component of the lethal toxin of Bacillus  Read More »

New DNA vaccine technology poised to deliver safe and cost-effective disease protection

(Arizona State University) A research team led by Roy Curtiss, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, and Wei Kong, a research assistant professor, at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute have taken a dramatic step forward in vaccine research, revealing the design of a universal platform for delivering highly potent DNA vaccines, by  Read More »

Superbug MRSA identified in US wastewater treatment plants

(University of Maryland) A team led by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Public Health has found that the “superbug” methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is prevalent at several U.S. wastewater treatment plants. MRSA is well known for causing difficult-to-treat and potentially fatal bacterial infections in hospital patients, but is also increasingly infecting otherwise  Read More »

USAID increases funding for emerging disease threats

(Vaccine News) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations announced on Monday that the United States Agency for International Development contributed more than $20 million in new funding to fight emerging disease threats. The funds will support the partnership between the U.S. and the FAO against H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza and other  Read More »

CDC releases report on worldwide influenza projects

(Vaccine News) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released an annual report on Monday profiling a variety of CDC influenza-related projects from around the world, including epidemiology training, vaccine effectiveness studies and flu surveillance. The CDC began its international flu efforts in 1997 when the agency investigated the first human infections with the  Read More »

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