anthrax

Medical College lands $8.1M grant to detect bird flu, bioterror agents

...e greatest potential threat. These agents include anthrax , botulinum toxin , and a group of RNA viruses that cause hemorrhagic fevers. Avian flu , another agent, is of grave concern because it can be spread from birds to humans, and potentially from human to human. The government is worried that terrori...

Tommy Thompson says capital needed for electronic health records

...d when it invested in testing devices for SARS and anthrax that did not sell. "Even knowing what's going to go on in the next year is very difficult in this type of marketplace," Prudent said. Biofuel possibilities Experts agree that Wisconsin is strategically placed to launch the new bio-energy econom...

Wisconsin consortium aims for defense business

... areas of study. For example, research dollars for anthrax were once allocated on the basis of the diseases impact on agriculture, but its use in germ warfare now means that studying it has become largely a military project. Hefty compared the new consortium to WiCell, the independent organization spun off...

Delivery of needles in the Capitol missed the point about stem-cell research

... Doesn't anyone remember the envelopes filled with anthrax in Washington, D.C.? Some people will wrongly conclude the needles were dangerous because they were used by a diabetic. Diabetes is not a communicable disease. It's a condition that affects millions of Americans, many of them children, but it canno...

New nanotech approach could enable fast anthrax detection

...etection of dangerous biological agents, including anthrax and other microbial pathogens. The device could be constructed, according to Beck, utilizing the natural features bacteria and other microbes use to sense their environments. The wired bacterial cells, coupled with modern microelectronics, would hav...

Celebrating Wisconsins entrepreneurial spirit

... was prepared to go into emergency status over the anthrax outbreak, Weber called the Center for Disease Control and contributed his resources against bioterrorism, helping to save 50 live which would have been lost otherwise. Weber also gave a great deal of credit to the people he had surrounded himself wi...

Life Sciences: Wisconsin- The Smart Choice

...do requires the skills of bioinformaticists. The anthrax attacks of late 2001 put the scientific and public health communities in the spotlight and revealed considerable gaps in the nations ability to respond to uncommon biological agents. The Medical College of Wisconsin Center for Biopreparedness and I...

OpGen Database Helps to Reduce Bioterrorist Threat

... agent and its potential to be more dangerous than anthrax as a bioterror weapon. OpGen plans to prepare additional genome maps from a wide range of potential biothreat organisms, including those affecting plants and animals, as well as people, as a resource for rapid identification of suspect organisms. O...

Oshkoshs Pierce Security Vehicle Ranked in top 100 Technological Innovations for 2003

...f contaminants, including chemical warfare agents, anthrax and tear gas. Recent purchasers of the Pierce Mobile Command Posts include Las Vegas Fire Rescue and the police department of Honolulu. Pierce Manufacturing Inc., a subsidiary of Oshkosh Truck Corporation is a manufacturer of custom fire apparatu...

UW-Madison Gets Federal Biodefense Funds

...will be involved in the work. Welch said that the anthrax scare in the United States, which started in Octob...mation of these centers. This was borne out of the anthrax situation. On many different levels we didnt know how to handle it, so it was a wake-up call, Welch ...