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Cleverly designed vaccine blocks H5 avian influenza in animal models

(ScienceDaily) Until now most experimental vaccines against the highly lethal H5N1 avian influenza virus have lacked effectiveness. But a new vaccine has proven highly effective against the virus when tested in both mice and ferrets. It is also effective against the H9 subtype of avian influenza. The research is published online ahead of print in Read More »

March 26, 2013
| Filed under North America, Countermeasures, and Research
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Botulism Antitoxin Wins FDA Approval

(GlobalSecurityNewswire) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has licensed the first drug for counteracting every form of a paralytic, food-borne toxin long feared as an attractive tool to would-be bioterrorists. Botulinum toxin comes from a common form of bacteria and results in around 100 U.S. hospitalizations each year through tainted food and localized infections, according Read More »

March 26, 2013
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Public Health, and Research
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Botulism Antitoxin Wins FDA Approval

By Diane Barnes Global Security Newswire WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has licensed the first drug for counteracting every form of a paralytic, food-borne toxin long feared as an attractive tool to would-be bioterrorists. Botulinum toxin comes from a common form of bacteria and results in around 100 U.S. hospitalizations each year Read More »

March 26, 2013
| Filed under Research
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Certain bacteria suppress production of toxic shock toxin: Probiotic potential looms

(EurekAlert) Certain Streptococci increase their production of toxic shock syndrome toxin 1, sometimes to potentially dangerous levels, when aerobic bacteria are present in the vagina. But scientists from the University of Western Ontario have discovered certain strains of lactobacillus bacteria are capable of dampening production of that toxin according to research published in the journal Read More »

March 25, 2013
| Filed under North America and Research
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Sequencing tracks animal-to-human transmission of bacterial pathogens

(EurekAlert) Researchers have used whole genome sequencing to reveal if drug-resistant bacteria are transmitted from animals to humans in two disease outbreaks that occurred on different farms in Denmark. The results, which are published today in EMBO Molecular Medicine, confirm animal-to-human transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a disease-causing bacterium that carries the recently described Read More »