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Hamilton lab to manufacture Ebola vaccine
(Guelph Mercury) An Ebola vaccine will soon be manufactured in Hamilton as researchers prepare to test it in humans. The vaccine to protect against the severe and often deadly viral hemorrhagic fever was created at Winnipeg’s National Microbiology Laboratory, which has the highest security in Canada.
- May 14, 2012
- | Filed under North America, Countermeasures, Public Health, and Research
House bill calls for White House biodefense advisor
(CIDRAP News) A bill headed for the floor of the US House calls for appointing a special White House advisor to lead and coordinate biodefense activities, including developing a national biodefense plan and a biosurveillance strategy. Among other things, the bill (HR 2356) calls for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Read More »
- May 11, 2012
- | Filed under North America, Biological Weapons, and Policy & Initiatives
South Korea Announces Biodefense Exercise
(Global Security Newswire) South Korea said on Friday it would collaborate with the United States in an exercise next week aimed at assessing their capacity to respond to intentional or natural disease outbreaks, Kyodo News reported. Roughly 190 individuals representing 50 U.S. and South Korean government organizations are due to participate Read More »
- May 11, 2012
- | Filed under Asia/Pacific, North America, Biological Weapons, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
The WHO must reform for its own health
(Nature Medicine) The World Health Organization (WHO) is facing an unprecedented crisis that threatens its position as the premier international health agency. To ensure its leading role, it must rethink its internal governance and revamp its financing mechanisms. The World Health Organization was born in the bifurcated Cold War world in Read More »
- May 11, 2012
- | Filed under Asia/Pacific, Europe, North America, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
H5N1 Transmission in Ferrets
(Clinicians’ Biosecurity News) Fears of an impending H5N1 influenza pandemic have existed since the first cases of human infection appeared 15 years ago. A pandemic could occur only if the virus acquired mutations that made it more adept at transmission among humans. Two recent and controversial studies have raised the spectre Read More »
- May 11, 2012
- | Filed under Europe, North America, Agents & Toxins, Public Health, and Research
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BAA – Medical Countermeasures for Priority Pathogens
(Global Biodefense) The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has released Read More »
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New Antibody Weapons Against Marburg Virus
(Global Biodefense) A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute identifies Read More »
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FDA Accepts BLA for Inhalational Anthrax Countermeasure
(Global Biodefense) Anthim (obiltoxaximab) is for the treatment and prevention of inhalational anthrax, Read More »
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South Korea MERS death toll rises to 20
(CNN) The World Health Organization said Tuesday that the number of new cases Read More »
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What you should know about MERS, the mystery disease that has South Korea on edge
(Washington Post) The spread of MERS, which has infected 126 people since the outbreak began last Read More »
Research More »
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We Now Know More About Sexually Transmitted Ebola
(TIME) In March 2015, officials discovered that a Liberian man who had survived Read More »
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Scientists find new variant of streptococcal bacteria causing severe infections
(Imperial College London) Scientists have discovered a new variant of streptococcal bacteria that Read More »
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VUMC joins Human Vaccine Project as first scientific hub
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), the Human Vaccines Project and the International AIDS Read More »
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Researcher who spiked rabbit blood to fake HIV vaccine results slapped with rare prison sentence
(Washington Post) Dong Pyou Han, a former Iowa State University researcher charged with Read More »
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New Antibody Weapons Against Marburg Virus
(Global Biodefense) A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute identifies Read More »
Public Health More »
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How Yelp Can Be Used to Track Outbreaks of Food Poisoning
When a Shigella outbreak at a San Jose, California, seafood restaurant sickened dozens Read More »
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We Now Know More About Sexually Transmitted Ebola
(TIME) In March 2015, officials discovered that a Liberian man who had survived Read More »
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Legionnaires’ Bacteria Regrew in Bronx Cooling Towers That Were Disinfected
(TheNewYorkTimes)- The 15 water-cooling towers that were found to be contaminated this week Read More »
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Millions More Need H.I.V. Treatment, W.H.O. Says
(TheNewYorkTimes)- The World Health Organization issued sweeping new guidelines on Wednesday that could put Read More »
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Sentencing scheduled for peanut executive in salmonella case
(Washington Post)- ALBANY, Ga. — A former peanut executive convicted of shipping tainted Read More »