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Tag: "bioterrorism" at medical news

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...

Anthrax hammers immune system

...s ability to defend against the potentially lethal bioterrorism agent, a new study shows. The results suggest medical treatment to boost the immune system at the earliest stages of infection could counteract the toxin that anthrax produces in its initial attack. Antibiotics, like Cipro, could be used in concert t...

Identifying Predictors Of Anthrax

...7 cases of anthrax -- including 11 cases blamed on bioterrorism -- with about 375 cases of pneumonia or influenza-like illnesses, looking for differences that might help doctors quickly identify someone as having anthrax rather than a typical lung disease. The analysis pointed to several possibilities: people wi...

Plant based vaccine for Anthrax

...ne acre of tobacco plant, as the threat of anthrax bioterrorism is very high. The study was funded by NIH and U.S. Department of Agriculture. Professor Henry Daniel, Professor of Molecular biology, University of Central Flordia, the new technique involves transferring the anthrax vaccine gene into the chloropla...

Hybrid antibodies to protect from small pox infection

...ncreased fear over the use of small pox virus as a bioterrorism tool to kill people. Small pox referral strains are only available in two places in the world one at CDC, Atlanta and the other at Russian Laboratory. Anti-vaccinia immune globulin (VIG) is the vaccine used worldwide against small pox virus which ...

Ricin Vaccine protection against bio-warfare and bioterrorism

...reased threat of using ricin poison as a source of bioterrorism and biowarfare. Funding, as been a constraint for this research work and the researchers are sure that if there work could attract more funds they are sure of developing an effective Ricin Vaccine. The researchers have developed a recombinant vacci...

Saving Infants From The Clutches Of Terror

...d by the Chicago Department of Health in 2002 as a bioterrorism preparedness Center of Excellence and thus has valuable experience in dealing with such situations. In the current grant, a Pediatric Chemical Workshop has been provided so that health care workers are exposed to hands on situations. “Children are no...

Nanotechnology Used For Detecting Viruses

...etecting a naturally occurring disease outbreak or bioterrorism attack. “It saves days to weeks,” said lead author Ralph Tripp, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Vaccine Development at the UGA College of Veterinary Medicine. “You could actually apply it to a person walking off a plane and know if the...

Potential Threats of Bioterrorism

... into quitting smoking or using seatbelts, similar bioterrorism scenarios do not lead to any measurable beneficial...omly received one of two messages: either a potent bioterrorism message portraying a graphic account of a horrific case of bioterrorism, or a message more neutral i...

UC Davis Creates New Nanoparticles

...chemicals or objects. Checking food supplies for bioterrorism agents, the environment for toxins and human DNA f...ology has been proven effective in tests to detect bioterrorism agents such as botulinum toxin and ricin in samples of milk, eggs and fruit juice. The technology wo...

Site Called Safe Two Years After Anthrax Death

...hrax attacks and hoaxes that shook the nation with bioterrorism fears shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. The publisher later moved from the building, and the case remains unsolved. In a letter to the Palm Beach County Health Department, federal officials said the building could be ...

Discovery Leads to Way to Curb Anthrax Effect

... bacterial species Bacillus anthracis if used in a bioterrorism attack. For the last four years, Dr. Rowe Byers, professor of microbiology, and Dr. Jean Arceneaux, associate professor of microbiology, have worked on the project that led to this discovery with scientists from the University of California,Berkele...

A New Inexpensive Technology for Multiplexed Detection

...tically profile individual patients and screen for bioterrorism or other hazardous environmental agents. Source-Eurekalert PRI...

Flies too Have Immune Memory!

...might also be a boon in the body's defense against bioterrorism or disease pandemics. "The B and T cells of the adaptive immune system take a long time to react," said Schneider. "But you might be able to speed things up if you could snort something up your nose that would make your innate immune system ready to ...

Bio-defense Lab Ordered Shut Down as Researchers Get Infected

..., brucellosis causes infertility and abortions. As bioterrorism agents, Brucella strains are inexpensive to produce and disperse, according to an August 2005 article in the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID). Coxiella burnetii causes a flulike disease in humans that is rarely fatal, according to the...

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