Explosion Confirmed at Russian Lab Storing Smallpox, Ebola
One worker was hospitalized after a gas explosion on Sep. 16 caused a fire to break out at the Russian ...
Tag: Poxviruses
Is There a Role For the BWC in Oversight of Lab-Created Potential Pandemic Pathogens?
Research by Ron Fouchier in the Netherlands and Yoshihiro Kawaoka in Madison, Wisconsin marked the beginning of a "gain-of-function" research, ...
20 Years of the Strategic National Stockpile: Response History Timeline
The the nation’s largest reserve of medicines and supplies for use in a public health emergency – the Strategic National ...
U.S. Supporting Ecological Surveillance for Special Pathogens in Sierra Leone
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a funding opportunity in support of improved vector surveillance and ...
US Invests Additional 44 Million in Smallpox Vaccine Manufacturing
Bavarian Nordic A/S announced on Jan. 18 that the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has exercised another ...
CDC to Award Contract to Emergent for 9 Million Doses of Smallpox Vaccine
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) intends to award a sole source firm fixed price contract to Emergent ...
Health and Human Services Biodefense Budget Oversight
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education held an oversight hearing focused on the FY2019 ...
Factoring Immunosuppression into Smallpox Outbreak Planning
Unprecedented levels of immunosuppression in countries like Australia and the US must be considered in planning for the risk of ...
Monkeypox in Nigeria: The Value of Local Surveillance and Genetic Sequencing
Scientists performed genetic sequencing of patient samples from the monkeypox virus (MXPV) outbreak in Nigeria, revealing that the outbreak likely ...
USAMRIID-Bavarian Nordic Smallpox Vaccine Phase 3 Study
Concept drawing of vaccinia. Credit: Shutterstock Bavarian Nordic announced on Feb. 6 the results of a successful Phase 3 clinical ...
U.S. Seeks to Develop Late-Stage Smallpox Antivirals
The etiological agent responsible for smallpox disease, Variola viridae (VARV) is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of ...
WHO Updates Blueprint List of Priority Diseases
The 2018 review of the World Health Organization’s Blueprint list of priority diseases occurred February 6-7, 2018. Given their potential ...
Bavarian Nordic Highlights Smallpox Orders, Vaccine Development
Bavarian Nordic A/S this week updated investors on its progress for the first three quarters of 2017, highlighting MVA-BN IMVAMUNE® ...
Emergent BioSolutions to Acquire Smallpox Vaccine Business from Sanofi
The only FDA-licensed smallpox vaccine, ACAM2000 (Smallpox (Vaccinia) Vaccine, Live), will be acquired from Sanofi by Emergent BioSolutions under a ...
Smallpox Vaccine Potency Testing
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced intentions to award a sole source contract to Sanofi Pasteur Biologics, ...
CNN to Debut ‘Unseen Enemy’ Special on Pandemics
UNSEEN ENEMY, about the potential looming crisis of disease pandemics, will debut as a CNN Films broadcast for a World ...
CDC Program Helps Democratic Republic of the Congo Combat Monkeypox
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases Extramural Research Program Office has ...
HHS Releases 2016 PHEMCE Strategy and Implementation Plan
The 2016 Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise (PHEMCE) Strategy and Implementation Plan (SIP), released this week by the U.S. Department ...
Smallpox Research Blurs Line Between Ancient Diseases, Emerging Infections
New research suggests that smallpox, a pathogen that caused millions of deaths worldwide, may not be an ancient disease but ...
Intravenous Brincidofovir May Improve Countermeasure’s Tolerability
Broad-spectrum antiviral Brincidofovir has shown favorable tolerability in its intravenous formulation, according to preclinical data presented by Chimerix at the ...
