The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on 9 Nov that an emergency use authorization (EUA) has been issued for a rapid, single-use test for the detection of Ebola virus ( Zaire [Read more]
The latest outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the worst in the country’s history, the health ministry says. The health ministry said it had recorded 201 [Read more]
On a recent visit to The Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute (URVI) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Entebbe, UK Minister for Africa Harriett Baldwin [Read more]
The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is seeking partners to advance technology developed for in vitro diagnostic devices that are amenable to military hardening and integration with communication capabilities to support the medical [Read more]
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) seeks to identify, adopt, and adapt emerging, existing and revolutionary sciences that may demonstrate high payoff potential to Counter-WMD (C-WMD) threats, including chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear [Read more]
In a new article published in The Lancet, experts review the current field of Ebola vaccine candidates and clinical trials and highlight key gaps in knowledge that need to be addressed by [Read more]
The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) is the Department of Defense’s (DoD) lead laboratory for medical biological defense research. USAMRIID has awarded a sole source contract to Life [Read more]
Health officials in Democratic Republic of Congo have reported 21 patients showing signs of hemorrhagic fever and 17 deaths in the affected area before an Ebola outbreak was confirmed today. Ground teams [Read more]
See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including regulation of genetically engineered livestock, chemical weapons investigators in Douma, and the latest news on rapid diagnostics. POLICY + INITIATIVES GAO asks [Read more]
See what we’re reading this week at Global Biodefense on topics including transnational biological threats, modernizing epidemiology, smallpox vaccine MVA, and drug-resistant typhoid outbreaks. POLICY + INITIATIVES NIAID research addressing biodefense and emerging and [Read more]
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