Black Death: Blame the Fleas and Lice, Not the Rats
A modeling study published last month in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science suggests that human fleas and ...
Tag: Y. pestis
BARDA BAA 2018: Pandemic Influenza, Infectious Diseases, CBRN Countermeasures
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) is soliciting proposals for the advanced research and development of medical countermeasures ...
Early Insights from Madagascar’s Plague Outbreak: Lessons Learned from Ebola?
The recent outbreak of pneumonic plague in Madagascar presents a test case as to how well the international community has ...
Achaogen Gets Federal Funding for Biowarfare Agent Therapeutic Development
The U.S. federal government is backing an antibiotic that not only holds potential as a treatment for infections from certain ...
FDA Grants Orphan Drug Designation for Plague Vaccine
DynPort Vaccine Company LLC, a subsidiary of CSRA Inc., this week announced it has been granted Orphan Drug Designation for ...
UTMB Researchers Develop Candidate Vaccines Against the Plague
Yersinia pestis. Credit: Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH Yersinia pestis, the bacteria of Black Death infamy, has had the power ...
DoD to Study Omadacycline as Countermeasure for Plague, Anthrax
3D rendering of Yersinia pestis. Credit: Shutterstock Paratek Pharmaceuticals this week announced a new cooperative research effort with the U.S. ...
Single Strain of Plague Sparked Multiple Pandemics
Photo of a mass burial site in Ellwangen, Germany. Credit: Rainer Weiss. A single entry of the plague bacterium into ...
Centuries Later, Black Death Offers Clues to Combat Diseases
The Black Death, caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, swept Europe in the 14th century eliminating up to half of ...
Examining DNA from the Great Plague Pits of Marseille
The most famous historical pandemic, the Black Death, killed an estimated 30-50% of the European population in the mid-fourteenth century. ...
Army Testing CytoSorbents Cytokine Filters for Biodefense
The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) Bacteriology Division is in the process of purchasing custom cytokine ...
DoD CBRN Medical Countermeasure Consortium
Military program managers briefed biopharmaceutical industry and research organization representatives during a Nov. 2 Industry Day, part of an initiative ...
How a Small Genetic Change in Yersinia Pestis Changed History
While studying Yersinia pestis, the bacteria responsible for epidemics of plague such as the Black Death, researchers have found a ...
Antibacterial Treatment for Plague Approved by FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration earlier this month approved Avelox (moxifloxacin) to treat patients with plague, a rare and ...
iBio Plague Vaccine Patent Emerges From Opposition Period
iBio, Inc. today announced it received notice from the European Patent Office that the opposition period expired for a bio-defense ...
NIAID Seeks Biodefense Priority Pathogen Therapeutics
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is seeking information regarding efforts to develop therapeutic products that demonstrate activity ...
New Insights on Early Stages of Bubonic Plague Infections
Yersinia pestis. Credit: NIAID For decades, scientists have thought the bacteria that cause the bubonic plague hijack host cells at ...
Mapping New York City Subway System Microbes
The microbes that call the New York City subway system home are mostly harmless, but include samples of disease-causing bacteria ...
Host Response Profiling of Burkholderia, Y. Pestis
The U.S. Medical Research Institute of lnfectious Diseases (USAMRIID) has announced intentions to award a new contract to George Mason ...
DHS Award to Tetracore for Biothreat LFAs
The DHS Directorate of Science and Technology, Chemical and Biological Defense Division (CBD) has awarded a sole source contract to Tetracore ...
