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U.S. Signs Contract For 44.75M Anthrax Vaccine Doses

Maryland-based biotechnology firm Emergent BioSolutions on Monday said it had received a $1.25 billion contract to provide the U.S. government with 44.75 million doses of an anthrax vaccine (see GSN, June 1). BioThrax is the only anthrax vaccine licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “Emergent is proud to be able to contribute to Read More »

October 5, 2011
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Public Health, and Research
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Researchers from Boston University receive grant to develop improved virus detection system

(Boston University Medical Center) A team of researchers from Boston University’s School of Medicine and College of Engineering have been awarded a five-year, $4.8 million National Institutes of Health grant to develop a low-cost, multiplexed virus detection platform. Based on technologies developed with seed funding from Boston University’s Photonics Center, the resulting diagnostic platform should Read More »

October 5, 2011
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Scientists Warn Melioidosis Bacteria is Growing More Hardy

(Global Security Newswire) Colorado State University announced on Monday that scientists have discovered that the bacteria that causes melioidosis can develop a novel resistance to the antibiotic generally used to kill off the potential bioterror agent (see GSN , July 11, 2008). …

October 5, 2011
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, and Research
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Biden brother in anthrax scare: reports – AFP

AFPBiden brother in anthrax scare: reportsAFPMIAMI — The younger brother of US Vice President Joe Biden spent the night in hospital after opening a package from India that contained white powder initially feared to be anthrax, reports said Sunday. Francis Biden, 57, told local media in southern …Joe Biden's brother hospitalised over 'anthrax' scare after Read More »

October 2, 2011
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Strides in biodefense follow 2001 anthrax scare

(USA Today) "We are certainly better prepared now, than we were ten years ago," says physician Eric Toner of the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. "But there is still a lot of work to be done." Toner says that a good, …