Anthrax Dispute, Bioshield Woes
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A government program designed to build a national stockpile of biodefense drugs after the 2001 anthrax attacks has a bad reputation among drug companies. Pharmas and the feds trade blame.
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The US Defense Department&#39;s mandatory anthrax vaccination program for its troops is illegal and must stop immediately, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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An African musician and a family member both contracted a non-contagious form of anthrax, apparently from imported animal skins used to make drums, officials said Wednesday.
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VaxGen, which shifted its focus to bioterrorism treatments after failures in HIV research, has won an $877 million contract to supply the United States government with anthrax vaccine.
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David Hose is a bioterrorism casualty. Little wonder, then, that his confidence in U.S. readiness for another such attack is about as low as his energy and as weak as his still-battered immune system, lingering after-effects of the anthrax he accidentally inhaled handling a letter addressed to Sen. Pat Leahy three years ago.
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VaxGen Inc. will make a new and improved version of the anthrax vaccine for use in case of a biological attack, the US government said on Thursday.
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The federal government ordered a new $877 million anthrax vaccine last month, but the vaccine is still unproven in humans.
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Biopure Corp. , the Cambridge company trying to develop an artificial substitute for human blood, was battered in the stock market yesterday after a federal advisory council recommended against its effort to test the product on more than 1,000 trauma patients.
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Jakarta (VNA) - The Indonesian government has set up a post to monitor the spread of anthrax at Babakan Madang village, Bogor, in West Java, where there has been an outbreak of anthrax, said Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyanto.
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West African percussion of death The 50-year-old man who died in 2006 from anthrax probably caught the disease while "playing or handling West African drums", the BBC reports.â¦
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The government stands to waste $100 million a year if two federal agencies cannot agree to coordinate the use of a vaccine for the deadly anthrax bacterial disease.
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Rapid response with antibiotics would be a more effective way of handling an anthrax terror attack than a pre-emptive mass vaccination program, scientists said on Wednesday.
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US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Wednesday suspended anthrax vaccinations for US troops in response to an injunction ordered by a US federal court, the Pentagon said.