Researchers: Early detection key in halting anthrax outbreak
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University said Wednesday that early detection -- and not a pre-exposure vaccination -- is the key to limiting an outbreak of anthrax.
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Laksamana.Net - Less than a week into his job, Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono has had to drop the rhetoric being spouted by fellow ministers and take swift action to deal with an anthrax outbreak that has now killed six villagers in Bogor regency
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A research team has been awarded a &#36;3.5 million federal grant to use a molecular detective technique to study and potentially improve the military's anthrax vaccine.
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A series of rapid diagnostic kits for detecting infection of H5N1 influenza virus has been successfully developed recently, through joint efforts between Shantou University Medical College/University of Hong Kong Joint Influenza Research Center and the
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Scientists in Hong Kong and China said on Wednesday they have developed a test to detect bird flu infections in humans within hours, which could give health officials an important tool for controlling the killer virus.
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Scientists in Hong Kong said on  Tuesday they had devised a new way to identify chemicals that  can counter new and dangerous viruses, such as SARS, and these  chemicals may be developed into drugs.
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Scientists in Hong Kong and China said Wednesday they have developed a test to detect bird flu infections in humans within hours, which could give health officials an important tool for controlling the killer virus.
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Using a novel research technique, Hong Kong scientists find new ways to attack a deadly disease
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BALTIMORE -- National researchers claim Maryland has made some progress but more needs to be done when it comes to preparing for a bioterror attack.
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The government plans to develop an experimental treatment for anthrax from the blood of people vaccinated against it. Such a medicine has never been tested on people, but scientists think it has a good chance of working based on animal tests.
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Nov 4, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - Federal health officials today announced the award of an $877 million contract for 75 million doses of a new anthrax vaccine to protect the public and improve on the existing vaccine used by the military.
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Public health officials underestimated the health risks when letters containing anthrax spores were handled in five U.S. Postal Service facilities in 2001, delaying medical help to employees, a report released Thursday concluded.
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A New Jersey congressman said Wednesday it should have taken the FBI days, not years, to determine the anthrax used in 2001 that killed five people was much less sophisticated than believed.
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Oregon researchers have started work on a new five-year, &#36;10.3 million biodefense contract to find the proteins associated with bacteria that cause salmonella poisoning and typhoid fever, and the virus that causes monkeypox.
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Scientists are perfecting a technique which they hope will improve detection of mad cow disease (vCJD).
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Technique claims to be able to stop Internet worms within milliseconds of an outbreak.
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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:    -----    Doctor Who Was Focus of Anthrax Probe Loses Job      A doctor who has recently become the focus of federal agents investigating the unsolved 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States has lost his job at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.      Dr...