BARDA Seeks Vaccine Ancillary Materials for Pandemic Preparedness
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) intends to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for ancillary materials such as needles, syringes, combination units and isopropyl alcohol prep pads to...
View ArticleFirst Responder Technologies Sought – DHS LRBAA
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has updated its Long Range Broad Agency Announcement (LRBAA) research topics of interest for First Responder...
View ArticleWashington, Oregon Conduct Bioterrorism Response Exercises
Public health personnel, first responders and emergency operations staff from counties in southern Washington state are hosting a three-day exercise this week to test their response to a simulated...
View ArticleCERF-P Units Train to Save Civilians from CBRNE Disaster
It’s another day at the office or a day off shopping on a busy street. There’s a boom, or a crash, you can’t tell which. Then there’s an odd pause followed by screaming. A blast crumbles the walls and...
View ArticleProposals Sought for Medical Countermeasure Storage
The U.S. federal government is seeking contractor proposals for the storage and management of a critical medical asset stockpile. The effort supports the national repository of antibiotics, chemical...
View ArticleCangene Announces Extension of Biodefense Contract for U.S. National Stockpile
Cangene Corporation this week announced that the scope of work under its contract with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the supply of Vaccinia Immune Globulin Intravenous...
View ArticleBiodefense Contracts Feed US Stockpile of Anthrax Antitoxin
The nation’s supply of anthrax antitoxin will be maintained until 2018 under Project BioShield contracts issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary...
View ArticleHHS Boosts Global Ability to Respond to Pandemics
To build a sustainable capacity to manufacture influenza vaccine in developing countries and help reduce the global threat of influenza pandemics, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’...
View ArticleNew Index Measures Health Security Preparedness in U.S.
The Association for State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), in partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and 20 development partners, this week announced the release...
View ArticleReport Finds Critical Gaps in Ability to Counter Infectious Diseases
A report released by Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) finds the nation’s ability to prevent and control infectious disease outbreaks are hampered by...
View ArticleChikungunya Poised to Invade the Americas
A team of French and Brazilian researchers warn that chikungunya virus is poised to invade, and become epidemic in the Americas according to research published ahead of print in the Journal of...
View ArticleStockpiling Tamiflu a Waste of Money?
An international team of researchers has found that Tamiflu, the popular influenza antiviral, can shorten symptoms of influenza by half a day, but does not reduce hospital admissions or complications...
View ArticleCEIRS Network to Integrate Research, Improve Pandemic Preparedness
Influenza scientists at five sites in the United States are to receive funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to collaborate with investigators around the globe...
View ArticleBARDA Moves Forward on Freeze-Dried Smallpox Vaccine
Bavarian Nordic A/S announced this week that the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has exercised an option at a value of USD 21.9 million under the existing development...
View ArticleNational Biodefense Science Board Gets a New Name
The National Biodefense Science Board will now be recognized as the National Preparedness and Response Science Board, in order to more accurately reflect the board’s work, expertise, and contributions...
View ArticleHumans, Pets Harbor Same Types of MRSA Infections
A shared population of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria circulates both in humans and companion animals, according to a study published this week in mBio, the online...
View ArticleCapabilities Analysis of Bioterrorism: Roadblocks Facing Non-State Actors’...
The use of bioweapons is not a new concept, having been employed since at least ancient Greece as a mechanism for attacking enemy populations. In the present day, cases like the Amerithrax attacks of...
View ArticleRFI – Respiratory Protection for Pandemics, CBRN Events
In support of biopreparedness acquisition strategies, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is seeking information from the manufacturing community on Respiratory Protective Device (RPD)...
View ArticleNew BSL-3 Facility in Caribbean Will Boost Regional Biosecurity
A new biological containment laboratory has been officially handed over by the Government of Canada to the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA). The Biosafety Level 3 (BSL-3) modular laboratory...
View ArticleFDA Medical Countermeasures Initiative Symposium
FDA’s Medical Countermeasures initiative (MCMi) will host their annual Regulatory Science Symposium this week at FDA Headquarters in Silver Springs, Md. The goals of the event are to exchange ideas on...
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