An international Symposium on Medical Treatment of Chemical Warfare Victims was convened by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) from 28 to 29 June in The Hague. More than [Read more]
A profusion of biotechnology products is expected over the next five to 10 years, and the number and diversity of new products has the potential to overwhelm the U.S. regulatory system, says [Read more]
Rapidly rising global poultry numbers, along with selective breeding and production techniques which have dramatically altered the bodies of chickens and other poultry, have made the planet more “infectible”, says Professor Stephen [Read more]
The 2016 Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise (PHEMCE) Strategy and Implementation Plan (SIP), released this week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, describes the priorities that HHS, in collaboration [Read more]
The Department of Homeland Security’s BioWatch program aims to provide an early indication of an aerosolized biological weapon attack. The first generation of BioWatch air samplers were deployed in 2003. The current [Read more]
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has published an updated assessment of the risk to humans from highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N8) viruses. This year Hungary, Austria, Germany, [Read more]
Driven by burgeoning ecotourism and military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, a parasitic infection called Leishmaniasis is showing up in more U.S. patients, often stumping doctors. New guidelines released by the Infectious [Read more]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has published a report focused on decontaminating railcars and related materials in the event of a biological incident in a subway system. In the event of a [Read more]
Nephele, sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), assists microbiome researchers by providing a variety of standardized analysis pipelines assembled using tools that include QIIME, mothur, and bioBakery; [Read more]
The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) Forum on Microbial Threats has released a new summary of its most recent workshop exploring the dynamic relationships among host, pathogens, vectors, and [Read more]
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