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CBRN defense specialist train Marines to decontaminate with new equipment

Taking heavy machinery and trying to get it to start slows down a mission’s success. Cranking it for 20 minutes can be stressful and make Marines’ work harder, until a push-to-start button fixed the problem.

October 4, 2012
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Chloroquine makes comeback to combat malaria

(EurekAlert) Malaria-drug monitoring over the past 30 years has shown that malaria parasites develop resistance to medicine, and the first signs of resistance to the newest drugs have just been observed. At the same time, resistance monitoring at the University of Copenhagen shows that the previously efficacious drug chloroquine is once again beginning to work Read More »

October 4, 2012
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Public Health, and Research
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New antibiotic cures disease by disarming pathogens, not killing them

(EurekAlert) A new type of antibiotic can effectively treat an antibiotic-resistant infection by disarming instead of killing the bacteria that cause it. Researchers report their findings in the October 2 issue of mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology. “Traditionally, people have tried to find antibiotics that rapidly kill bacteria. But Read More »

October 3, 2012
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NATO Pursues Unified Biothreat Alert Mechanism

(Global Security Newswire) NATO could use a French-controlled disease monitoring technology as part of a planned system for detecting potential biological strikes against its military assets, the alliance said on Monday. To date, the “ASTER” equipment has served to warn of spikes in natural infections among French and German armed personnel in Djibouti, enabling the Read More »

October 3, 2012
| Filed under Europe, North America, International, Public Health, and Research
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Smallpox Virus May Help Treat Deadly Form of Breast Cancer

(ABC News) A new form of breast cancer treatment may be… smallpox? What was once a feared killer of millions of people may someday be used to treat one of the most dangerous forms of breast cancer. So far it’s worked in mice, and researchers are encouraged. The researchers, from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Read More »