DHS Opens Small Business Solicitation for Biological, Chemical Threat Detection
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) 22.1 Solicitation is now open for U.S. small businesses ...
Tag: Avian Influenza
Animal Biosecurity and Agro-Defense Program Launches at Auburn
The Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine is home to the new Animal Health and Agro-/Bio-Defense (AHAD) Program through funding from the USDA-Agricultural ...
Tracing and Controlling Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
Scientists have discovered a route of introduction for Highly Pathogenicity Avian Influenza Virus (HPAIV) H5N8 into Japan and, in parallel, ...
Avian Flu Outbreak in Seals Illustrates How Viruses Can Adapt to Spread Between Mammals
In 2014, an avian influenza virus caused an outbreak in harbor and gray seals in northern Europe, killing over 10% ...
Daiichi Sankyo Apologizes for Not Meeting Vaccine Production Milestone for Pandemic Preparedness
Daiichi Sankyo announced in an official statement on 17 May that the Company has been unable to fulfill its obligation ...
Why the Scientific Debate Over a UW Bird Flu Study Isn’t Going Away
A University of Wisconsin-Madison laboratory is set to resume experiments that could build the foundation of an early warning system ...
Two Vaccines Against H7N9 Influenza Viruses Show Safety and Immunogenicity in Ferrets
This paper was originally published in Vaccines and is being distributed by Global Biodefense under the terms of the Creative ...
AbCellera to Lead Development of Rapid Response Platform Against Pandemic Threats
AbCellera Biologics Inc. this week announced that it was awarded a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to ...
NIAID Flu Experts Examine Evolution of Avian Influenza
Two leading influenza experts from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have published new commentary on how ...
How Our ‘Pathological Lives’ Boost Pandemic Flu Threat
A chicken broiler house in England. Credit: Steve Hinchliffe Rapidly rising global poultry numbers, along with selective breeding and production ...
Pandemic Preparedness: NIH Funds SLU Research into H5N8 Bird Flu
Saint Louis University is studying an investigational vaccine for bird flu as part of the federal government’s efforts to prepare ...
ECDC Assessment: H5N8 Bird Flu Low Risk to Humans
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has published an updated assessment of the risk to humans from ...
Monitoring Migration Routes for Early Warning on Bird Flu
Credit: Shutterstock Scientists led by researchers at the University of Edinburgh recently published findings from analysis of how H5N8 avian ...
Researchers Discover 2009 Swine Flu Pandemic Originated in Mexico
The 2009 swine H1N1 flu pandemic -- responsible for more than 17,000 deaths worldwide -- originated in pigs from a ...
Sandia Researchers Discover Mechanism for Rift Valley Fever Virus
Brooke Harmon, Sandia National Laboratory virologist. Credit: Randy Wong Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories have discovered a mechanism by which Rift Valley ...
National Veterinary Stockpile for Agro-Defense
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Veterinary Services, National Veterinary Stockpile (NVS) is the nation's ...
Federal Perspective on the State of Our Nation’s Biodefense
The following contains the written testimony of OHA National Bio-surveillance Integration Center Acting Director Dr. Aaron Firoved for a Senate ...
Open Source Disease Modeling: A Tool to Combat the Next Pandemic
Before the age of mass travel, infectious diseases went from local outbreak to international epidemic by ship. In the 21st ...
Promising Results in H7N9 Prime-Boost Vaccine Trial
With hopes of making one dose of an inactivated H7N9 vaccine fully protective, scientists from the National Institute of Allergy ...
U.S. Increasing Laboratory Capacity in Thailand and Cambodia
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) has announced intentions to award a sole source contract with Oxford University in support ...
