Bio-defense Lab Ordered Shut Down as Researchers Get Infected
...journalists today, said the problems it found at Texas A&M show that the US government needs to reduce the number of people and facilities that handle bioweapons agents and bring a hodgepodge of federal lab rules into a unified, mandatory, and enforceable system to ensure lab safety and accountability. ...Demand for universal flu vaccination
... for repeat vaccination in doctors' offices, he says. Not only should we prepare for the next flu pandemic, but there's the ugly possibility of facing bioweapons consisting of the flu virus, which could devastate whole communities. ...Avant's Typhoid Fever Vaccine Demonstrates Excellent Clinical Potential
...ANT's vectoring systems to develop new, safe and effective orally administered vaccines against anthrax and plague or other any other microbes used as bioweapons and other disease causing agents; (3) the ability to successfully complete product research and further development, including animal, pre-clinical an...Avant’s Typhoid Fever Vaccine Demonstrates Excellent Clinical Potential
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...rt is a subsidiary of Emergent BioSolutions External Links Wikinews has news related to: US Military To Buy Anthrax And bioweapons Production Systems Official U.S. Department of Defense web site for AVIP. Vaccination Timeline at Stars and Stripes. The Military ...Study illuminates how the plague bacteria causes disease
...ied in the plague epidemics that devastated the ancient world, the researchers said. The successful weaponization of plague in the former Soviet Union bioweapons program also made the pathogen a primary biodefense concern. Additional medical concerns have arisen from the evolution of multidrug-resistant strains...War on terror meets war on cancer
... determine where bacteria used in bioterrorism were grown. That isn't true of anthrax, which is spread by spores that are almost dormant. But for live bioweapons spread through the air in an aerosol mist ?bacteria that cause plague, tularemia or Q fever, for example ?the difference in isotope concentrations ins...