USAMRIID Resumes Full Operations Following Federal Select Agent Program Reinstatement
Researchers at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases continue to work on medical countermeasures for the novel ...
Tag: Select Agents
Critical Bioeconomy Asset in Need of Attention: BSL-3 and BSL-4 Laboratories in the U.S.
An essential element in the critical national infrastructure required to safely and securely address the threat of emerging infectious diseases ...
CCD Detector System for Abrin Toxin Activity
A novel method for quantitative detection of biologically active abrin toxin is presented utilizing a low-cost CCD detector system for ...
Tandem Mass Spec for Select Agent Detection
Efforts to mitigate biothreats require development of efficient countermeasures which in turn relies on fast and accurate methods to detect ...
Passive Immunization with mAbs Against Aerosolized Ricin Toxin
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recognize that the deliberate release of biological toxins and highly infectious agents ...
A Call to Action on Plague Research
Plague is a communicable rodent-borne disease caused by Yersinia pestis that is primarily a wildlife disease that occasionally spills over ...
Belarus Man Indicted for Mailing Ricin and Threats to Pelican Bay State Prison
A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted Vladislav Victorvic Timoshchuk with attempted transfer of a toxin for use as ...
U.S. Ebola Treatment Center Costs and Sustainability if Federal Funding Withdrawn
In 2014, a tiered network of facilities to manage patients with Ebola virus disease (EVD) was established in the United ...
FDA Grants Soligenix “Fast Track” Designation for RiVax® in the Prevention of Ricin Poisoning
Soligenix, Inc. announced on Feb. 13 that its RiVax® (heat stable ricin toxin vaccine) development program for prevention of ricin intoxication ...
Antibody Mixture May Help Block Ebola Virus Infection
A research team led by scientists at Vanderbilt University Medical Center has developed an antibody mixture that in animals is ...
Boston Hospital Only New England Center Designated to Treat Ebola Patients
As part of a recent training session, staff members at the Center for Disaster Medicine in Boston trained on a ...
MSF Update on Ebola Frontline Response
Medical facilities, personnel and patients have continued to be the targets of violent attacks, with an increase in attacks and ...
Scientists Create Decoy Molecule that Neutralizes Arenaviruses
A host of disease-causing viruses called arenaviruses lurk in animal populations in various parts of the world, sometimes crossing over ...
Fresh Approach to an Old Problem Yields Clues to Tularemia Virulence
Francisella tularensis, also called rabbit fever, is an equal opportunity pathogen: it causes the disease tularemia in humans, rabbits and ...
Health Security Milestone: First FDA-Approved Ebola Vaccine
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today the approval of ERVEBO®, the first FDA-approved vaccine for the prevention of ...
Ebola Patient Was Not Reinfected: Killed by Resurgence of Virus Lurking in Immune System
There was alarm last week among experts when the first reports came through that a patient had died after catching ...
Congo Authorities Say Ebola Survivor Falls Ill Second Time
An Ebola survivor has fallen ill with the disease for a second time in eastern Congo, the Congolese health authorities ...
British Nationals Evacuated from Sierra Leone for Lassa Fever Contact Monitoring
Three British nationals have been brought back to the UK from Sierra Leone for medical assessment after coming into close contact with ...
CDC Approves Partial Resumption of USAMRIID Select Agent Research
The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) will resume limited research, following a successful recent inspection by ...
Hunter Contracts Bubonic Plague from Infected Rabbit, 28 People Quarantined
A hunter who killed and ate a wild rabbit on north China’s Mongolian steppe contracted bubonic plague, Chinese health officials ...
