Infection Control Today

Community Storage of Anthrax-Preventing Antibiotics Should be Determined by State

As part of preparations for a possible large-scale anthrax attack, public health officials on the state and local levels should determine where and how anthrax-preventing antibiotics should be stored in their communities, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. ...More

September 30, 2011

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Report Shares Public Health Responders' Accounts of 9/11 and Anthrax Attack

The Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) have released a new report, "Remembering 9/11 and Anthrax: Public Health's Vital Role in National Defense," featuring more than 30 firsthand, on-the-ground accounts of public health ...More

September 1, 2011

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Structural Genomics Project Creates Blueprint for Infectious Disease and Biodefense Research

The September issue of the online scientific journal Acta Crystallographica: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications (Acta Cryst F) will consist entirely of work done at the Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease (SSGCID), a consortium of ...More

September 1, 2011

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Scientists Discover How to Combat HAIs, Food Poisoning and Bioterrorism Toxins

A team of scientists from A*STAR’s Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) has discovered the secret recipe for ‘antidotes’ that could neutralize the deadly plant toxin ricin, widely feared for its bioterrorism potential, as well as the Pseudomonas exotoxin (PE) ...More

July 22, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

Forensic Genomics Used to Investigate 2001 Anthrax Attacks

Researchers at the Institute for Genome Sciences at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and collaborators at the FBI, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and Northern Arizona University have published the first scientific paper based on ...More

March 7, 2011

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New Discovery Could Lead to Vaccines for Plague and Bacterial Pneumonias

There is an ongoing battle in the "war on terror" that remains mostly unseen to the public -- a race between scientists working to develop a vaccine to protect against plague and the terrorists who seek to use plague as a weapon. "Governments remain concerned that ...More

January 25, 2011

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Dana-Farber Receives $5.6M Grant to Develop Rapid Countermeasures to Infectious Agents

Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have received a $5.6 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Army Research Office (ARO) to develop transient immunity against known, unknown, naturally occurring, or engineered ...More

January 20, 2011

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Nation's First Comprehensive Guide for Hospital Emergency Preparedness Exercises

With the publication of the nation's first comprehensive, federally funded guide to hospital emergency preparedness exercise development, Dr. Nathaniel Hupert at Weill Cornell Medical College and his collaborators have provided a new toolset for strengthening hospitals' ...More

December 16, 2010

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States Achieve High Scores for Health Emergency Preparedness but Progress Threatened by Budget Cuts

In the eighth annual Ready or Not? Protecting the Public from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism report, 14 states scored nine or higher on 10 key indicators of public health preparedness. Three states (Arkansas, North Dakota, and Washington State) scored 10 out of 10. ...More

December 15, 2010

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MS Drug Serves as Model for Potential Drugs to Treat Botulism Poisoning

Scientists are reporting that variants of a drug already approved for treating multiple sclerosis show promise as a long sought treatment for victims of bioterrorist attack with botulinum neurotoxin — which is 10,000 times deadlier than cyanide and the most poisonous ...More

November 17, 2010

Posted in News

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