Ancient Plague Provides New Insights
Dangerous new pathogens such as the Ebola virus invoke scary scenarios of deadly epidemics, but even ancient scourges such as ...
Tag: Y. pestis
Army Seeks Characterization Services for Burkholderia, Plague
The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) is seeking firms capable of providing research services to profile the ...
Biodefense Headlines – July 13, 2014
Deadliest, rarest form of plague contracted near Denver | CDC halts hazardous biomaterial transfers | Ebola's spread sparks debate on ...
Black Death Shaped Mortality Patterns for Generations after Epidemic
A new study suggests that people who survived the medieval mass-killing plague known as the Black Death lived significantly longer ...
BAA – Multiplex Diagnostic Platforms for Infectious Diseases
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is interested in supporting the advanced development of promising integrated clinical ...
Plague: Evolution of Harmful Organisms from Same Bacterial Family
Scanning electron micrograph of Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague, on proventricular spines of a Xenopsylla cheopis flea. Credit: NIAID ...
Plague Alters Cell Death to Kill Host
Northwestern Medicine scientists are continuing to unravel the molecular changes that underlie one of the world's most infamous and deadliest ...
USAMRIID Seeks Animal Vaccination Services for Immunogenicity Studies
The Virology Division at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Md. has a ...
Notable Contracts: IITRI Biological Surety Support for Plague Vaccine
Image: Yersinia pestis/NIAID The Medical Countermeasure Systems (MCS) Joint Acquisition Vaccine Program (JVAP) Biological Surety Agents and Toxins (BSAT) program ...
RFI – Advanced Development of Multiplex Diagnostics
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is seeking information from diagnostics product developers interested in supporting the ...
Oregon Man Shares Near-Death Experience from Plague Infection
Paul Gaylord, a retired man living in rural Oregon, recently shared details from his horrific, near-death experience after being infected ...
Scientists Reveal Cause of Devastating Plague Pandemics
An international team of scientists has discovered that two of the world’s most devastating plagues – the plague of Justinian ...
Navy Seeks CBRE Mail Screening Equipment
The U.S. Department of the Navy is soliciting for commercial Chemical Biological Radiation Explosive and Narcotic (CBRE-N) Freight X-Ray Mail ...
German Scientists Develop Rapid Test for Plague
Diagnosing the presence of Yersinia pestis, the cause of plague, may soon be easier than ever before. Scientists from the ...
SLU Enrolling Volunteers for Plague Vaccine Study
The Saint Louis University School of Medicine is enrolling volunteers for an initial safety and tolerability study of a vaccine ...
GAO Says 60 Percent of CBRN National Stockpile Approved for Children
A report released this week by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) assesses approximately 60 percent of the chemical, biological, ...
CBRN Diagnostics Broad Agency Announcement
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has modified the Diagnostics portion of a funding effort for “Advanced Research ...
JPM-TMT Seeks Solutions to Multi-Drug Resistant Biowarfare Agents
The U.S. Department of Defense has initiated a new research and development effort to address the continuing emergence of multi-drug ...
Chemical and Biological Defense Technologies BAA
The U.S. military is seeking innovative ideas for development of technologies for chemical and biological defense applications under a Broad ...
FDA Panel Says Yes on Animal Rule for Pneumonic Plague Antibiotic
Johnson & Johnson’s antibiotic Levaquin is under consideration by FDA regulators for expanded treatment of pneumonic plague, a potential biological ...
