Antibodies from plants protect against anthrax
...ology Biodefense Research Meeting. "The nature of
bioterrorism is such that an aggressor is likely to strike at a time and place calculated to induce maximum terror through mass casualties. The unpredictable nature of such events compels us to develop cost-effective, highly stable medical countermeasures to enab...
Microbial forensics: The next great forensic challenge
...nally practiced over hundreds of years. But modern
bioterrorism is more chilling than ever because of rapidly expanding knowledge about infectious diseases and biotoxins and their potential to wreak havoc in complex, interdependent societies. The nation is in the process of developing a strong microbial forensic ...
Wake Forest scientists find new combination vaccine effective against plague
... the National Institutes of Health under a federal
bioterrorism initiative. "The development of a vaccine against the pneumonic or respiratory form of plague is a major goal of the bio-defense initiative," he said. The research program involves six other medical school scientists and a secure biosafety laborator...
Aircraft Cabin Ventilation Influences The Transmission Of Diseases In-flight
... important public health issue. Heightened fear of
bioterrorism agents has cased health officials to re-examine the potential of these agents to be spread by air travel. The SARS outbreak of 2002 showed how air travel can have an important role in the rapid spread of newly emerging infections and could potentiall...
Carnegie Mellon cyLab researchers work to develop new red tide monitoring
...security where we may use this method to track the
bioterrorism activities pertaining to the nation's waterways." Cai said his NASA/ESTO-funded research team is developing a spatiotemporal data mining system to track harmful ocean objects from NASA's SeaWiFS satellite images and NOAA's oceanographic data. These ...
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Medical College lands $8.1M grant to detect bird flu, bioterror agents
...o test for avian flu and the majority of potential
bioterrorism agents. The grant, which was awarded by the Nati...y allow cost effective, point-of-care diagnosis of
bioterrorism agents within one to two hours. Henrickson, also a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Chil...
IT may take a back seat in fighting avian flu
...t from human to human, it will be the worst act if
bioterrorism ever known. A pandemic of this rapidly spreading virus would be twice as devastating as small pox or the explosion of a "dirty bomb" in New York City. While IT may be a distant second to meticulous planning, health surveillance technology can play...
Five seed-stage funding groups filling Midwest Life Science void
...nd microbial ID markets with an orientation toward
bioterrorism and homeland defense. 2. Vasc-Alert, a software technology to identify the risk of clotting in access sites for hemodialyis patients. To date, the main BioAngels sponsor has been the law firm of Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman . The 12-person Bio...
UW-Madison joins effort to build public pathogen bioinformatics database
...elated organisms that are not considered potential
bioterrorism agents....
WTN Interview: HHS Secretary calls for $550 million health care fund to reduce deaths caused by medical errors
...n! Thompson addressed his agencys efforts to fund
bioterrorism research, speed the approval of new drugs, stimulate the search for cures for diseases such as Alzheimers, and stressed his major initiative to implement the presidents directive to speed the deployment of a nationally networked system of electronic ...
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Ebola
... There is not much information published about the
bioterrorism potential of Ebola, obviously for security reasons. However, scientists do say that altering the Ebola virus for biological warfare is possible although unlikely. The difficulty in changing Ebola to a potential weapon is twofold: first, the Ebola vir...
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Fright could be more harmful
...s illness - on 29 September, paint fumes set off a
bioterrorism scare at a school in Washington State, sending 16 students and a teacher to the hospital. Just after the beginning of the current anthrax scare a liquid, which turned out to be window cleaning fluid, was sprayed at a Maryland subway station. As many ...
Gas Masks Don't Always Fit an Emergency
Before the national anxiety over
bioterrorism drives you to buy a gas mask at the nearest army surplus store, take a deep breath and brace yourself for what experts say about them -- most of it is not good. One could never know where the exposure is; you'd have to wear the mask at all times. //E...
Biotechnology on the lead
...wn to man, that could be used as a biowarfare or a
bioterrorism agent. "We're currently working on a vaccine that uses biotechnology to take a fragment of the toxin - a non-toxic fragment - and splits it off from the rest of the molecule. "It creates a good antibody response and it also in animals protects agai...
Is Smallpox Threat Real ?
...a. A smallpox attack is just one of many potential
bioterrorism threats, but "perhaps it is the most frightening," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institutes of Health. // "It's a virus that's easily transmitted from person to person through aerosolized droplets from saliva and other body fluid...
Smallpox Would Spread Rapidly
...ssia and possibly other nations.// Recent fears of
bioterrorism have ignited concerns that these stockpiles could be used to introduce the potentially deadly disease into the population, which is at present ill-prepared to deal with a potential outbreak. If introduced into America or Europe, smallpox would spread...
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DOR BioPharma Announces Issuance of European Patent for Its Oral
Multivalent Botulinum Toxin Vaccine BT-VACC
...ntestinal ("GI") diseases, andvaccines for certain
bioterrorism agents. DOR's lead product,orBec® (oral beclomethasone dipropionate), is a potent, locallyacting corticosteroid being developed for the treatment of GIgraft-versus-host disease ("GVHD"), a common and potentiallylife-threatening complication of bo...
DOR BioPharma Announces Publication Describing Results of Its
Multivalent Botulinum Toxin Vaccine BT-VACC
...ntestinal ("GI") diseases, andvaccines for certain
bioterrorism agents. DOR's lead product,orBec® (oral beclomethasone dipropionate), is a potent, locallyacting corticosteroid being developed for the treatment of GIgraft-versus-host disease ("GVHD"), a common and potentiallylife-threatening complication of bo...
IR BioSciences Announces Promising Data from Study of Its Compound
Homspera
...d as countermeasures for multiplehomeland security
bioterrorism threats. Homspera is derived frommodified Substance P, a naturally occurring peptide immunomodulatorand homeostatic compound with the dual effect of improvingpulmonary function and the stimulation of the human immune system.For more information, plea...
ImmuneRegen BioSciences Announces Promising Data on Homspera
Suggesting Potential as a Co-Therapeutic Agent
...d as countermeasures for multiplehomeland security
bioterrorism threats. Homspera is derived frommodified Substance P, a naturally occurring peptide immunomodulatorand homeostatic compound with the dual effect of improvingpulmonary function and the stimulation of the human immune system.For more information, plea...
IR BioSciences Announces Data Demonstrating Radilex Stimulation of
Stem Cells Results in Hematopoietic Recovery Following Lethal
Irradiation
...d as countermeasures for multiplehomeland security
bioterrorism threats. Homspera is derived fromSubstance P, a naturally occurring peptide immunomodulator andhomeostatic compound with the dual effect of improving pulmonaryfunction and the stimulation of the human immune system. For moreinformation, please visit ...
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Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
...) are a group of virus es that could be used for
bioterrorism . Examples of VHFs include Ebola virus , hantavirus , yellow fever , Lassa fever , and Marburg virus . Full article >>> However, as with some other virus es which cause viral hemorrhagic fever , humans who become ill with Marbur...
Hemorrhagic Fever
...) are a group of virus es that could be used for
bioterrorism . Examples of VHFs include Ebola virus , hantavirus , yellow fever , Lassa fever , and Marburg virus . Full article >>> Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Dengue Shock Syndrome ( Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever ) Dengue -Like Disease...
Hemorrhagic
...) are a group of virus es that could be used for
bioterrorism . Examples of VHFs include Ebola virus , hantavirus , yellow fever , Lassa fever , and Marburg virus . Full article >>> The term " hemorrhagic " comes from the Greek "haima," blood + rhegnumai," to break forth = a free and force...
Bioterrorism
Smallpox
bioterrorism : The misuse of smallpox as an agent of
bioterrorism . Full article >>> Bioterrorism and biowarfare today: A number of countries have co...
Bacillus anthracis
...lth concern in recent years due to concerns about
bioterrorism (the use of bacteria or virus es to cause illness and spread fear). Smallpox and anthrax (a disease caused by the spores of a bacteria called Bacillus anthracis ) are ... Full article >>>...
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