Throw out old anthrax vaccine, expert tells U.S.
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The U.S. government needs to throw away more than $12 million worth of expired anthrax vaccine and quickly use up the rest of a rapidly aging supply worth hundreds of millions of dollars, a Government Accountability Office expert said on Tuesday.
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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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NEW YORK Senator Hillary Clinton says when it comes to the flu vaccine, the Bush administration has its priorities wrong. Clinton says about five-point-six (b) billion dollars is being spent to create an Anthrax
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They can do it for love of God and country - or for the $60. Either way, soldiers vaccinated against anthrax have the opportunity to help future anthrax victims by donating their blood.
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The decision by British authorities to suspend the license of a major influenza vaccine manufacturer just before the vaccine was to be shipped shows a need for better communication, acting FDA chief Dr. Lester Crawford said on Monday.
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SAN FRANCISCO: The crisis in the flu vaccine supply in the US has led to renewed calls to modernise a half-century-old manufacturing system that relies on millions of chicken eggs and a lot of educated guesswork.
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A federal judge may hold a former USA Today reporter in contempt if she will not identify sources in stories about an ex-Army scientist under scrutiny in the 2001 anthrax attacks
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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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A suburban Philadelphia company is hoping that a vaccine for anthrax could be lurking in spinach, petunias or Swiss chard.
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Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks and subsequent anthrax scare, medical experts are still struggling with how best to handle a widespread bioterrorism attack.
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Federal health officials yesterday scuttled the largest piece of the Bush administration's two-year program to counter bioterrorism, canceling a $877.5 million contract with VaxGen to develop an anthrax vaccine after the company missed a deadline to begin human testing.
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A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Defense Department to stop requiring members of the armed forces to be vaccinated against anthrax without their consent.
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NEW YORK  - Immunity against smallpox is retained and can be still be detected for at least 20 years after vaccination. Even people vaccinated in the 1950s may still have a robust immune response after exposure to this serious virus, a research team reports in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.
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WASHINGTON A federal judge is telling the government to stop dragging Stephen Hatfill&#39;s name &quot;through the mud.&quot;. The judge in Washington says he&#39;s been told government lawyers looking into the 2001 anthrax
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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. Federal ...
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The Department of Defense, insisting that servicemen are still at great risk of becoming exposed to anthrax in the Mideast and South Korea, wants to resume inoculating them against the bacteria.
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The Defense Department must immediately stop inoculating troops with anthrax vaccine, a federal judge ruled yesterday, saying that the Food and Drug Administration acted improperly when it